The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, May 16, 1919, Page FOUR, Image 4
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ESTABLISHED 1844
The Press and Bann<
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
H. G. CLARK, Editor,
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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
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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<
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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^
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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
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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
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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
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on THANKING MRS. MARSHALL.
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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
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-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 $13,000, | j
nd was paid by Skovgaard. This j
iolin fulfills the most enthusiasticjj
xpectatio^s as all will believe whoij
2ar its tone. I
The proceeds of this performance ji
.'ill be donated to the Abbeivllei?
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lemorial Hospital.
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DUE WEST. V j!
(A. R. Presbyterian.) V'l
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Due West, May 14.?Miss Ruth|
?odd is at home, her school having'j
losed . j
Mrs. Nettie Bonner is expected to j
each Due West this week from In-|j
liana. j
Rev. J. L. Grier spent a few days j
n Due West last week on his return1!
rom Princeton. j
Rev. H. B. Blakely Sr., and Rev. ij
I. B. Blakely, Jr., spent a few hours !|
n Due West Monday. ||
Mr. and Mrs. James Plaxco spent |i
. couple of days in town. They were j.
eturning from their school closing.
Mr. David Kennedy, who is con-;
lected with the medical department j
if the war has just landed in this!
ountry. j
Rev. J. L.-Pressly, who is visiting,I
riends in Dae -West;- ?$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
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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
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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,
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I We are doing
Hi summer
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I you will
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Mount Carmel; Covin & LeRoy, Willington.
Price, $1 per bottle straight.
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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.
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ESTATE R. J. ROBINSON. Dec'd. '
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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
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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.
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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
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MRS. D. A. ROGERS. *
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS?
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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.
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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.
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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
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ry. Friends.
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