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FUUif ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Bann< ABBEVILLE, S. C. H. G. CLARK, Editor, a > The Press and Banner 0 Published Every Tuesday and Fri( Telephone No> 10. Entered as second-class mail m ter at post office in Abbeville, S. Terms of Subscription: One year $2 Six months 1 Three months Payable invariably in advance. FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1919. FAILURE OF THE COUNTY. Abbeville went over the top in < recent loan by about $10,000. 1 beville county fell short of her qu< by about $12,000. Outside of Ab ville, Due West and Calhoun Fi were the only -two places that- w< over. Lowndesville with a quota $14,500, raised only $1,800 and D< aids with a quota of $19,000, rais only $4,200. The reason for the failure of pa of the county to go over the top v lack of organization. The peo; /.onvusaed. A number W CI C UVV VMM ? men living in the county have-si that they were never approached canvasser and asked to subscri This is no excuse for those who ii ed to buy Victory Bonds, but it is reason. THE SUBMERGENCE OF W. P. GREE! . , Inasmuch, as a few score peo] .are willing to pay in a year three four times as much, for* the servi< fo a competent lawyer as two three thousand are willing to pay i those of a competent editor and at lawyer in large practice can not c< duct a newspaper without worki himself to a frazzle,* Mr. William Greene, after four years of'expe 'ce aVe'ditor of The Press and Bi ner of Abbeville, has given up tl post and in future will be absorb in legal duties. Of course as an e tor he would be of many times much service to the public as he v be as a lawyer (lawyers are conve ^ces for the benefit of people w get into difficulties that good ser and good manners should keep th< out of) but the people are unwilli to pay adequate compensation men of Mr. Greene's ability to cc duct weekly newspapers. We do r censure Mr. Greene for leaving 1 but we are sorry for him, becaui all the years to come, he will hungry for the kind of fun that has had in the last four.?The Sta int. ttUiND iSSUt. AND OTHER THIN< i " The Bond Issue for paved stre< ; in Abbeville has been carried una: * mously. For that fact Abbevi should be congratulated. And t element of unanimity Is a migfc Wealthy indication. There is anotl: side to the question. Abbevi should have had the paved streets long time ago, which nullifies a praise accruing to the citizens i voting it at this time. Paved streets were perhaps t most patent need of the city to t casual visitor. It was a conditi that unfavorably advertised a tov the dust from which rises from 1 streets and hovers adumbrant o\ the city ,a sign of unprogressivene It is unfortunate that the bond iss is not larger; that all the stre< cannot be passed. That is the end view. Abbeville has other needs, the mi obvious being a real, back-breakii sweat-producing spring cleaning, this city was ah army camp and camp inspector should happen up * us one day unexpectedly the go citizens of Abbeville would not g off kitchen police, the woodpile a the incinerator until their terais enlistment ran out. RrJvoj&i paif i 'city in terms of self respect to h a couple of men whose sole duty * was to Dick ud stray pieces/of j?d trash aiid small refuse* tK^t -fe* n< *o be seen clattering up the stree the sidewalks and the gutters. V only would it look better?remc many eyesores?but it would be , more sanitary and would go far toward abating the plague of flies, I which is already upon us. ? Abbeville has many things that ^ntribute toward faking a beautiful place. First are her trees. Other! i.-, features are not so attractive. There o. , lav ire ^ie broken down fences to bei -~nsidered, and the paint brush andl he lawn mower loom up as possible t - aids. . ia'L* If the citizens would become imC. 'iued with the spirit of working to aether for Abbeville the thing would be accomplished. All that is needed qq is team-work. qq Which brings us up to the question of a commercial club. That the business men of this town should organize is matter few will debate, ? that many advantages and practically j no disadvantages would accrue from such an organization is equally undebatable. It's an open and shut proposition. Public enterprise will follow in the train of a business club as certain as night follows day. It is a public necessity and every well regulated town has one. ills ;. ?nt PLAN ORGANIZATION { of OF COTTON INTEREST^ jn sed New Orleans, May 13.?The proposed plan for organization for the rts American Cotton Export Financing /as corporation a pool of cotton produc-j pie ers and dealers, ?or export trade, as,1 of made known here today, at a con-! it aid ference of cotton interests, provides ^ by for a corporation capitalized at , be. $100,000,000 to be paid largely in1 ^ nil- Liberty bonds. ' a The corporation would be empow-'j. ?red to accept a wide variety of for-j . 3ign securities, and to market them j in this country or issue bonds of to' own. It alsi could acouire con-! T trol of foreign cotton manufacturing < pie P^nt8. . v . J or The organization plan also provid :es es that the corporation might lend, pr money to dealers or shippers on se-1 [or curity of warehouse receipts m ease*1 < j a where cotton is being assembled for, m_ export. Thus it would fiinance the, entire exrcort transaction. i i I, P. The draft on the pfoposed powers i :ri- for the corporation will bfe submit- f in- ted later this week to the entire conlat ference of :cotton interests repre- i v * i ed fcentatives and adoption, of the plan | di- without matrial modifications is ex-; r as pected. The authorized capital stock t rill although fifixed at $100,000,000 in t ni- the tentative draft, may be reduced. | *" bo The corporation would be author- ' v ise iZed to begin business when the 11 amount of capital stock subscribed F ng reaches $20,000,000, with fifty per ^ to cent paid in, and payments might be made either in cash, Liberty Bonds!v >ot or notes, or treasury certificates of- ? J9) indebtedness. By this means approx-|* se, imately $10,000,000 worth of govern-j ^ be nient securities would be the basis n he for financial operations at the start.! v,e> In addition to finding a market;3 abroad for cotton and cotton prod-j ucts, and making the necessary con-! 0 iS | tracts, the corporation would be em-1 i DOWered to rlpnl in rmtoo ! its checks, bills of exchange, accept-! ^ ni- ances, cable transfers, or other evi-L he take bonds of foreign governments! ityj or of foreign banks, syndicates or A ieri other privates : business firms, and,^ lie, make loans to these foreign interests a! on the security of their obligations.^ ny By this means the corporation vir-j :or tually would sell its cotton to for-| ! eign purchasers on credit, raising) he | money in this country on security of j ^ ;he the foreign bonds to finance the op-!c on erations. m> Another power proposed for the r be corporation is to permit it to take'^ 'er stock in foreign commercial or in-} lSS- dustrial enterprises connected with j. !u61 the purchase or manufacture of cot-'* e*s ton. This might involve the ac-j *n ceptance of mortgages on foreign J j plants and thus give the American |., co-operative corporation a hand in! 1?? the management of foreign firms, j Tf la I a ir on THANKING MRS. MARSHALL. od r rej. In Mrs. Marshall's interesting ar- c nd tide Tuesday giving bits of history c 0f f the city, she pays a deserved com^ jjlim^nfc to the. Electric Light and ,f jj.e Water Plant, when she sa^rs we. havo g jt the best system in the State. ' ? er, Superintjerd|st Hix has made aw ,-ift^ibVtfrr/ents ;:in y.thd r plant v ts, Since coming to Abbe%Hfle and ex- I fot pects always to keej? up the high s tve | standard of the "best" in the State, j a FAMOUS VIOLIN i -lad Been Stored in Spanish Museum For Generations Untouched -- ' o Be Heard H-ire Monday at the Opera House. Violins may not have the sentinents and sensibilities attributed to ;hem by imaginative musicians, butj ;hey have histories, interesting andj varied, gay romances and dark tra-j jedies, even as do their warm friends j >f mankind. A violin which is not, )nly remarkable in itself, but with a "emarkable story is one possessed by! \xel Skovgaard, the Danish. Violinst, who is to appear at the Opera, tfouse on Monday night. It is as^ jright and polished as if it had left ;he hands of its maker but yesterlay, and still the instrument is over 200 years old. First Person to Play ipon the violin was Mr. Skovgaard limself. To a chance meeting with i London dealer in musical instru nents Mr. Skovgaard owes nis gooa 'ortune in obtaining his rare Strad. This man "had a fine collection of old ,'talian violins, they were real antijues, cracked, scratched, and worn, hrough more or less rough life forj everal centuries. Having reveled; nthe wealth before him and tried nost of them, Mr. Skovgaard renarked that it would have been a )leasure to have seen such instruments when they were new, but such Measures were denied modern artists I ro the surprise of the Danish artist, j is new friend replied in the negative and steeped to a fireproof vault j \ came out with a big yellow lea-J her case, which he opened and tookj >ut an unstrung violin, and handed t to his guest. Apparently . it was ust from the maker's shop, but >1ainly it was lettered "Antonius Jtradivarius Anno, 1712." "When I ras last in Madrid," said the dealer, 1 was presented to a collector of art -?*ks, in whose collection, however, vere was but one violin, namely, a Jtradivarius. Naturally I inquired ^w a violin could have become lost -iong so many painting and he then nformed me that it was an old heiroom, which had always been in the amily, and that he had once found book with a history of how Stradi- ' arius made this violin in memory of ^ - dead son, and that had therefore !i etained it in the museufn." Withj, he instrument went the romantic j ale of its origin?how in Cremona, \ j hrough the love of one of Stradi- J rarius' best pupils for a girl violin- j st, an instrument that the maker i >articularly prized had been stolen J or the girl when it was returned toji maker he refused ever to parti] rith it, and it was not until after his j j leath that his sons sold it to a collec-jj or, who, in his turn, sold it to the! | Spanish museum, where the instru-:j lent descended from father to ^pn'j ii many generations. The price de-jj landed for the violin was $13,000, | j nd was paid by Skovgaard. This j iolin fulfills the most enthusiasticjj xpectatio^s as all will believe whoij 2ar its tone. I The proceeds of this performance ji .'ill be donated to the Abbeivllei? I lemorial Hospital. J VVVVVVVV^V.VVVVj i DUE WEST. V j! (A. R. Presbyterian.) V'l vi >vj Due West, May 14.?Miss Ruth| ?odd is at home, her school having'j losed . j Mrs. Nettie Bonner is expected to j each Due West this week from In-|j liana. j Rev. J. L. Grier spent a few days j n Due West last week on his return1! rom Princeton. j Rev. H. B. Blakely Sr., and Rev. ij I. B. Blakely, Jr., spent a few hours !| n Due West Monday. || Mr. and Mrs. James Plaxco spent |i . couple of days in town. They were j. eturning from their school closing. Mr. David Kennedy, who is con-; lected with the medical department j if the war has just landed in this! ountry. j Rev. J. L.-Pressly, who is visiting,I riends in Dae -West;- ?$E fMjied *jl :opd sermon in _tl}? A. R. P. church J labbath morning. j |1 Mr. John McGee and Mr. 'S^am Da- J J is left Mondaythe Southern jj feptist Convention which is in ses- j j ion in Atlanta, Ga. They will be ab- \ j ent about one week. j 1 % r Helped Her Like Others Told Her Spartanburg Woman Makes Highly Interesting Statement?Says She Feels Fine Now and "Sure Can Praise Tanlac for Its Aid." "it is trie oest medicine i evef| took for stomach trouble, nervous-, ness and palpitation of the heart. Ij sure can praise and recommend it," i declared Mrs. H. E. Lawter, of 116, Williams St., Spartanburg, S. C., in a statement she gave in endorsement of Tanlac, "The National Tonic." j 'I suffered from very bad cases of i indigestion, nervousness and palpita-, tion of the heart," continued Mrs. | Lawter. "I could hardly sleep, and; would just roll and tumble for hours,' and my nerves were so badly disturbed that I was kept miserable al-j most all the time. I could eat scarce-! ly anything. What I did eat felt like! bricks in my stomach, and I hadj a kind of choking in my chest after | meals. My heart fluttered a great ?al, and this, I think, was partly crfbsed by the great quantity of gas| that formed on my stomach. "Finally I decided to try Tanlac, as it had helped so many others who had. troubles somewhat like mine, and now I am not bothered with stomach trouble, thanks to Tanlac. I a great deal better in every way, too. My nerves are much stronger and steadier, and I used to get so nervous that I jumped when anyone spoke to me. I'm certainly not that way now, as Tanlac has 0 relieved those nervous troubles and I have not been bothered a bit with palpitation since I took the first bottle of Tanlac. "I feel fine now in many ways and I sure can praise Tanlac and I give it credit for the change in my condition. I am fifty-nine years old, and it takes a powerfully good medi-[ cine to help anyone as old as I am: as much as Tanlac has helped me." "Tanlac, the master medicine, is' sold exclusively by P. B. Speed, Abbeville; A* S. Cade, Bordeaux; J. T. Black, Calhoun Falls; J. H. Bell & Sons, Due West; Codley & Speer, Lowndesville; R. M. Fuller & Co., McCormick; J. W. Morrah & Son, I i; Some Sp i! We have a I I that i | To do this we I Third off I We are doing Hi summer jfj S Better take ach I you will I If you want < Stylish Mid-Si 3 [Mrs.J J 'i.;' -' I I ifimfl?ranCTfiinro|fl J Mount Carmel; Covin & LeRoy, Willington. Price, $1 per bottle straight. ?Adv. . 1 JIM HADDON TURNED LOOSE. The case against Jim Haddon, ne- ] gro, charged with transporting liquor into Abbeville from Atlanta, was dropped when it was brought out at Ll. - i?If J iL.l xt. ? ! - ^ne trial ivionaay mat tne nquur was taken out of Haddon's possession vhile he was still in Georgia by En ^ineer Wilson, who discovered Haddon with the goods. Mr. Wilson took the booze in urge because he feared that Haddon would throw it off the engine, knowing that he was discoyered. It was another case of perfectly good intentions going astray, losing Ifor Haddon his liquor but saving his skin. m i ESTATE R. J. ROBINSON. Dec'd. ' i Notice of Settlement and Application for Final Discharge. Take Notice that on. the 30th day ' of May, 1919, I \ will render a final account of my actings and doings as Execut.or of the. Estate of R. J. Robinson, - deceased, in the office - of. rroDate ior ADDevine county at iu o'clock a. m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as such Executor. All persons having demands against said estate will present them for payment on or before that day, proven and authenticated or be forever barred. , F. C. ROBINSON, 5-16-3t. Executor* CARD OF THANKS. We wish to try and thank our friends and neighbors through your paper, for their many kindnesses to us, in our recent bereavement in the death of our son and brother, Claude May God's richest blessings be showeied upon them, is the sineere with of? " ' ' ' ' * - * : Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Fleming, t*., j >. , and family*Engraved cards and wedding invitations at Press and Banner Co. imffnraramrarinipninini BilMMMMMMMMMMIa ecial Price -LADIESFew Capes, Coal nust Move at ( are going to offe the regular pricethis to make r goods that are ( /antage of this of Miss snmp sure -Millineryone of the Ligl T T immer Mats, we as S. Co Abbeville, S. C. nrngfiweiaiEiiUiUiuann CARD PARTY POSTPONED. The card party which was to have been given by the U. D. <3's. next Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Frank Benton, ?as be?n postponed. The date will be announced ^ later. 1 THE BOOK CLUB. J The meeting of the Book Club held at the home of Mrs. C. D. Brown Wednesday afternoon was a most pleasant affair. In ther absence of Mrs. Miller, the president, the meeting was presided over by Mrs'. J. A.. Hill. Mrs. A. B. Morse, Mrs. W. D. Barksdale and Miss May Robertson v/ere the invited guests wvvvvvvuuvu " V BUY YOUR CREAM V \ from V! MRS. D. A. ROGERS. * Phone No. 1. V 5-6-tf. V ___? : POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS? V i J ~ For County Treasurer. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Treasurer of Abbeville County and will abide the result of the Democratic primary election. E. C. HORTON. / ; R. C. WILSON, (betier known as , "Dick") is hereby announced as & j candidate for County Treasurer iiH the democratic primary for that office. He pledges himself to - be1, bound by the rules of the party. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Treasurer of Abbeville County and will abide the result of the Democratic primary election. J. E. JONES. v >:? We wish to announce GEORGE CL DOUGLAS as a candidate for the office of Treasurer of Abbeville County, in the 4PPJ**cfeii)g primary JB election. Mr. Douglas agrees to abide^ by the rules of the Demeeraiie Prim- M 1 ry. Friends. LfimsrafBliUEfBlgfim ^ s for the jj I . I ts and Suits $ )nce. [ j jr them One- jl for Cash. [ j oom for the [j doming. [j fer at once, or | j | l\ h it, Airy, and |i can suit you. -1} !i ji diranjj JUUUUUUUUUUUIiH