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Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C? Friday, July 11,1919. Single Copie?, Five Cents. 75th Year.
;o. SUPERVISOR
FOR GOOD ROADS
n an Interview With Reporter of
Press and Banner He Takes Definite
Stand-?Million Dollar Bond
Issue is Considered?Fifty
Miles of Asphalt Roads.
"We need 200 miles of good roads
1 this county," said Supervisor W.
. Stevenson in an interview with a
jporter of th(e Press and Banner
hursday morning. "Fifty miles of
lis Should be asphalt, radiating out
t Abbeville and the rest chert or
ay sand, preferably chert," he
Ided.
^ ^?-? 1 "i*
Ivomanuiiig- ur iv 10 muv
is county to issue bonds for good
ads and I believe the best way
id certainly the quickest would be
r the voters to express themselves
r petition or in an election and if
majority is in favor of good roads,
en our representative can introice
a bill in the next legislature auorizing
the bond issue. The soonthe
better. I feel certain that a
ijority of tie voters of the county
H vote in favor of good roads."
Mr. Stevenson said, "the question
cost is important, but I do not
Ink an adequate system of good
,ds can be built and provision
de for maintenance at cost less
n from between $750,000 and
000,000. The latter figure is
'It is to be hoped that a vote on
question will be taken as soon as
sible. After the people have votin
favor of the measure I do not
ibt but that the legislature will
s a bill authorizing a bond issue
whatever amount the voters
at. In the near future I will give
for publication a definite plat of
roads which I think will he most
I able to construct. I want those
is built which, will serve tke
itest number of people.
The asphalt roads can be built
about $20,000 a mile and the
rt roads will cost around $5,000
mile. Clay-sand roads can be
it for $3,500 per mile."
ENCH OFFER ONLY
$300,000,000 FOR U. S.
ARMY EQUIPMENT
I'ashington, July 8.?The French
irament having offered only
),000,000 for American army
pment in France costing $1,500,000,
the war department has or<1
a sales organization for disJ
of the property be formed in
ice, Director of Sales Hare today
cncrifll Yinnn* / nmmit.too . in.
I. War department e*i>endi>
abroad.
[MER SCHOOL IN PROGRESS.
emson College, July 8.?What
lises to be the most successful
mer School even conducted by
I Agricultural Department of
pon College began on scheduled
last Tuesday with a good at
Iince, which will be increased
r by the arrival of the club boys,
r the first time a number of laire
taking courses, and there are
a good many married ladies and
ren here as visitors to be with
mds and fathers who are at
Iig the Slimmer School. Provisras
made for this in advance,
he institution is glad to have
visitors.
3 club boys begin their two
> course on the 8th. The two
winners from each county are
ed to attend with free tuition,
rther club members attend by
g a small fee. Mr. L. L. Baker,
^vising Agent of Club work,
e in charge of the boys.
Big Farmers' Week, July 21
will be the climax of the Sumchool.
A strong program ia
>out completed, and Olemson
5 exuects to welcome a lanre
Carolina farmer* to tfcofc
BEHhtur&l college that week. Fallez
^BHncemeats will be made within
(BQ dajra.
BURLESON DECLARES
RESIGNATION REPORT
IS WITHOUT BASIS
Washington, July 8.?Postmaster
General Burleson today declared
Ttroo nA f/Mlronnrtfi'
isii^jl c r? a j itv xvuuuwvtvii av* ?v|/v?vm
that he had sent his resignation to
President Wilson.
Mr. Burleson was one of three
cabinet officials who did not go to
New York to greet the president today.
The others were Secretary of
Commerce Redfield and Attorney
General Palmer.
At Mr. Redfield's office, it was
said previous plans had prevented
his making preparations to go.
Mr. Palmer had made plans to go
but changed them at the last minute,
because of a slight illness, it
was said at the department of justice.
President Wilson, returning to the
United States today, is confronted by
many important issues.
A great number of bills are on his
desk at the White House, awaiting
signature. In addition, he is expected
to name a charge d'affaires for
the American embassy in Berlin,
consult with Secretary Redfield with
regard to resumption of commercial
relations with Germany, after the
trading with the enemy law expires
upon proclamation of peace; take acAM
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WUil VII U1C PCI919M7UI*!)' tCpViWU UC
sire of Secretary Baker to retire; decide
when demobilization shall be
declared ended and war prohibition
may be lifted, and take a hand in
the plans for returning the railroads
to their owners.
ABBEVILLE BANK ASKS
FOR RENEWAL OF CHARTER
Columbia, July 7.?Williams Banks
Dove, Secretary of State, today commissioned
the Johnsonville Building
and Loan Association with a proposed
capital stock of $50,000, the petitioners
being Dr. R. L. Cocksfield, S. B.
Poston, W. C. Wallace and W. J.
Huggins, all of Johnsonville.
C. B. Osborne & Co., of Greenville,
was commissioned with a proposed
capital stock of $10,000, to do a general
wholesale and commission merchant
mercantile business, the petitioners
being C. B. Osborne and J. ,
F. Palmer, Jr., both of Greenville.
The Farmers Bank of Abbeville
today petitioned for a renewal of its
charter.
Plate Glass Window.
Philson and Henry are replacing the
plate glass window in their store on
the square, broken out some months
ago, when an automobile jumped the
curb and smashed into it.
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Death of a Child.
A telegram was received by Mr.
J. T. Hughes Wednesday announcing
the death of the. little child of
Mrs. LltewTlyn McFall Sturkey*
Florence.
SENATOR NEW TALKS
OF MURDER TRAGEDY
Washington, July 7?Senator New
! of Indiana, tonight issued the following
statement regarding the arrest
in Los Angeles on a charge of
| murder of Harry S. New, who claims
! he is a son of the senator:
I "T OTTO 111C+ +V? i c* 4- A nnir
j ji. uuiv j uob buio i/\j oay auuut Uliid
whole deplorable matter. More than
30 years ago, when I was in my
twenties and unmarried, I knew Mrs.
| Burger. There was never at any time1
I a question of marriage between us.!
j Conditions arose which I did not carej
j to dispute which resulted in my doing
| everythiog in my power to make1
j amends then and later. Whatever I j
! did in that direction was of my own'
(accord and no one else had anything'
j whatever to do with it. The affair ]
was ended 30 years ago. Since thatj
time the people of my home city arei
the best judges of what my life has j
been. I never have shirked any re-!
sponsibility that has come to me and
I never shall."
Judge Frank B. Gary has returned
from Laurens, where the has been
cnur*
Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Smith, Jr., of
.Greenville, are the guests of Mrs.
Smith's mother, Mrs. M. T. Coleman.
ROYAL RESTAURANT 1
OPENS FOR BUSINESS
HERE ON WEDNESDAY
The Royal Restaurant and Candy
Kitchen opened for business Wed- j
nesday. This is truly a modern, well' <
equipped and sanitary place and. k
ft n-C 1>VA nAnnl A ^
xiicixio uiic i/abiuua^c ui tuic j/cwpit
of this city.
The front of the store is given
over to the fountain, candy and confections
of all kinds, fruits and tobaccoes.
Separating the fountain
from the restaurant proper is a lattice-work,
painted white. In the dining
room there are eight tables. The
place is roomy, cool and spotlessly
clean.
At the rear is located the kitchen. "r
This is well equipped and sanitary in
every respect. The menu which is
offered to the public isc as comprehensive
as can be found in any restaurant
in a lar^e city. On another
page of this paper will be found an
anouncement of the concern and the
menu. One of the special features
is the Sunday dinner.
The whQle place is well ventilated.
Several fans keep the air in movement
and help to lower the temperature.
TOTAL WAR CASUALTIES
OF U. S. ARE 297,147
Washington, Ju# 8.?Total casualties
in the American expeditionary
forces including all corrections
and alterations published to July 2,
were given in an official report today
as 297,147. This was a net increase
of 1,566 over the last report on June
25. Battle deaths increased 321 to
50,150 and total deaths, 400 to 78r
917. The wounded aggregated 216,309
and the massing, 1,921, a decrease
of 281 from the last total reported.
COTTON IN ABBEVILLE CO.
S PER CENT ABOVE AVERAGE
Acording to a report issued by B.
B. Hare of the United States Bureau
of Crop Estimates, the condition of (
cotton in South Carolina on June 25,
was 78 per cent of normal. The con-i
dition on the corresponding date of
last year was 83 per cent, 71 per
cent in 1917 and 74 per cent in 1916 1
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the ten-year average being 77 per
cent. / *
TVip (Kitnmjifpil s?f?rpj?o?p n ^
decrease of 11 per cent compared <
with last year, the total acreage \
planted and standing on June 25, t
being 2,706,000 acres.
The Condition Reported by Coun- '
ties is as follows: *
Abbeville 83, Allendale 78, Aiken (
75, Anderson 82, Bamberg 68, Barn- ^
well 67, Beaufort 83, Berkeley 82, ^
Calhoun 72, Charleston 84, Cherokee
81, Chester 81, Chesterfield 80, i,
Clarendon 74, Colleton 76, Darling-jc
ton 90, Dillon 88, Dorchester 78, i
Edgefield 76, Fairfield 77, Florence <
87, Georgetown 88, Greenville 79, 1
Greenwood 79, Hampton 71, Horry |
82, Jasper 78, Kershaw 78, Lancas- '
ter 77, Laurens 84, Lee 85, Lexing- ,
ton 79, McCormick 78, Marion 82, j
Marlboro 90, Newberry 80, Oconee .?
83, Orangeburg 76, Pickens 83, t
Richland 72, Saluda. 78, Spartan- i
burg 80, Sumter 80, Union* 77, Wil- I
liamsburg 84, and York 81. 1
In eight or ten of the extreme
eastern counties, embracing the Pee i
Dee section, and in about the samej
number of counties in the north*j
western part of State, covering mostj
of the Piedmont section, conditions j
range from "fair" to "excellent", j
while in the southern, western, cen-|
tral and north-central counties con-j
ditions range from "very poor" to j
"good." Just what effect the excessive
rains of the last week in June!
will have on the crop remains to be j
seen. On the well worked and wellj
fertilized farms there will probably!
be an abnormal growth of the plant I
at the exDense of fruit, but in fields
where plant is small a normal plant <
will likely be produced, the fruiting *
of same to be determined by subse- >
quent weather conditions and extent ^
of cultivation. *
B. B. Hare, *
South Carolina Field Agemt. '
MUTUAL COMPANIES V
CARJtY SIX BILLION
DOLLARS INSURANCE
Nearly 2,000 farmers' mutual fire
nsurance companies in the United ^
States have a total of $6,000,000,000 p
>f insurance now in force. These Q1
sompanies in general have shown a g,
ligg dehree of stability and have i 01
>rnv??H nf mn/?V> vuIiia to fVu?ir mpm.' H
>ers, specialists of the United States oi
Department of Agriculture say in ^
Department Bulletin 786, which is a in
Cj
eport of the prevailing pla/is and*
jractices among such companies ob- ^
ained from replies to questionnaires #
tent out by the Bureau of Markets. T:
rhese companies are organized in ei
ill States excpet Florida, Louisiana, ai
"Jew Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada, st
nore than four-fifths of them being
ocated in the Middle Atlantic and w
"forth Central States.
Each Member Has One Vote.
S?
Of the 1,161 companies replying ^
o questionnaires, 124 were incor- e1
>orated by special acts of Congress, tl
vhile 967 were incorporated under al
general statute and 21 existed as ^
rolnntarv a<wooiatinnR without in- W
:orporation. The smallest member- 161
chip of any company was 25 and the ^
argest was 32,433, the average ^
nembership being 1,532. Nearly fl)
'aur-fiftha of the 1,161 companies
eporting on membership were or- 0i
ranizations of less than 2,000 mm- p]
>ers. The prevailing plan is to al- oi
ow each member one vote regardless at
>f the amount of insurance or num>er
of policies held. More than fourifths
of the companies follow this
>lan. 1 T
The aventge, as well as the mosti
:ommon, number of directors for the
:ompanies reporting was nine, the
avonte term tor directors oemg ex- 1,1
her one or three years. In a num- M
>er of laws more recently enacted it j ^
9. specifically prescribed that the ?1
;erm of a director shall be three'SJ
rears, and that one-third of the num- j
>er shall be elected each year. ^
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MILLIONS OF POUNDS "
OF FOOD SPOILING IN
GOVERNMENrS HANDS "
II
Washimrton. .Tnlv 9 Millin-na nf I ^
jounds of meat and canned vegetans
held by the war department ar^
leteriorating, while the American
3eople "need every ounce of food." .
3. W. Hare, director of sales for the
iepartment, told the house commit;ee
investigating war expenditures
;oday. . ^
This food, he said, consists of *a
75,000,000 pounds of bacon; 580,- o:
)00 pounds ham: $50,000,000 worth ti
>f canned meats; $100,000^0001 a<
vorth of canned vegetables. jh,
It was held for months, he testi- j
led, while war department officers]^
vere trying to figure out if it was}
nore than the army needed, and'
j 4.1
:ould be sold. When sale was finally i
letermined on. Mr. Hare declared, i 01
>nly half-hearted efforts were made,|o:
md there were few bidders. ' iui
The food was sold to the govern-' v<
nent by the nackers. he said, who re-i
"u?e to take it back at a "decent m
^rice." Now the rapid deterioration fc(
)f the foodstuffs wlil force a sale of
;hem below cost, he testified. Efforts
;o sell the food to Herbert Hoover!*3
:or distribution to starving Euro-1 w
)eans failed, and attempts to export
t were unsuccessful. i a<
Present plans are to market mostjjc
)f it in this country, Mr. Hare said,| (]
vhere "there is need for every i w
)unce." I b]
He admitted that at one time; ^
;anners conferred with war de>artment
officials, who agreed to 1
ceep millions of cans of vegetables [c<
)ff the market, adding them to the!
egular army ration after the armis- th
;ice. He said it was a "fair infer- si
;nce" that these vegetables were c?
idded to the ration to protect can-;
lers from competition, and not be- ^
:ause the soldiers needed them.
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i/UbLUii auiu vii IU^OI max- ^
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ket yesterday for 34 cents, V
October futures closed in V e(
New York at 34.40. V ^
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fILSON WILL TELL
ALL TREATY FACTS '
TO THE U. S. SENATE
Washington, July 9.?Only,a fluttring
flag on the top of the White
ouse today denoted the return of
resident Wilson. Fountains played
i the lawn, birds twittered, police j
jards lounged beneath the big trees
r at the iron gates, and the White
ouse offices wore their usual look
: emptiness. Everybody supposed j
lat the President was busv unnack
g grips. Senator Lodge, Repiibli-1
in chairman of the senate foreign
stations committee, didn't call, nor
d any Democratic senators leave 1
ieir cards or drop in to say hello. ]
ranquility, peaceful and benignant, '
lveloped the executive end of the
renue?a sort of calm before the
orm.
For inside his study, the president 1
as putting his finishing touches to <
a address to congress. He sum- .
oned Joseph P. Tumulty, private 1
icretary, very early and the latter
inctionary received the correspond- 1
its and gave them tfo.fi benefit of
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ie xew decisions wie pesiaent Has
ready been able to make. Mr.
Wilson will not leave here lor two
eeks. His itinerary for the west*
m trip which will extend to the
acific coast will be mapped $jit in
te intervening period. The presisnt
will review theX new Pacific
set. And in the next fortnight
r. Wilson will be at the disposal
' any committee of congress to exlain
the peace treaty, the League
" Nations and the European situ-ion.
YOUNG MAN DIES.
komu A. Martin of ^bberille Operated
on Hera Saturday.
Thomas A Martin, aged 22. years,
ed at the city hospital on Tuesday M
orning following a brief illness. Mr!
Martin was brought to the hospital 1
'om his home in Abbeville and waslj
aerated upon Sunday in an effort to (
ive his life.
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Mr. Martin is the son of J. S. Mar- \
n a prominent farmer of Abbeville i
rnnty and was well known in that <
?ction. <
The body was taken to Abbeville
>unty on Tuesday afternoon and
ineral and burial will be held on
Wednesday.?Anderson Daily Mail. v
EST HOUSE VOTE ,
ASSURES 'DRY LAW
i
Washington, July 8.?The house, ]
y adopting 235 to 59, today a specil
rule for immediate consideration' (
f prohibition enforcemnet le^isla-'j
on indicated sufficient votes to e'n- i
:t the measure without the 12
ours of general debate alloted memers
anxious to speak for and against
s passage.
But despite the big majority and'
le promise by Chairman Volksteadj
f the judiciaryvcommittee that alii
f the time set aside might not be;
sed, indications tonight were that a!
ote on the bill itself would not be
;ached this week. Every effort was
lade today by anti-prohibitionists
> delay consideration by claims of
o quorum, demands for roll calls andj
y forcing the reading, word by j
ord, of'ithe printed text of the bill.'
I
All these attempts at delay were
:cepted with good grace by the ma-j (
irity until Representative Sabbath |j
[llinois and Representative Cald-j (
ell (New York), both Democrats,m
[ ought a protest from members who \
sclared they were endeavoring by ]
ilatory tactics to slow up the pro- 1
;edings. Less than two of the 1211
Durs for debate had been used when 1
le house adjourned to resume con-j^
deration Thursday, tomorrow being j j
IIOYI^OT /loir
UMJ ?
No attempt was made today to split]
le bill so as to take out the first |
art relating solely to enforcement of!
ar time prohibition with a view to
sT^arly, passage. This, however,
ill be done later, and while memers
fighting for modification or resal
of the war time act are hopessly
in teh minority, they announc1
their determination to keep on
jilting until the whole question, of
iforcement legislation was settled
l the house.
GERMANY RATIFIES
TDCATV (ID DCAPC
IULHII Ul TLHUL
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A
Resolution is Adopted by National
Assembly by Vote of 208 toi 115? .v \
Economic Blockade Will Soon
Be Lifted By the Allies?Need
of Strictest Economy.
Weimar, (Via Qoblenz), July 9.:?
The resolution ratifying the peace
;reaty was adopted by the German
lational assembly today by a vote of
208 to 115. '
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Ratification of the* peace treaty by
he German national assembly removes
all doubt of the acceptance
>f the terms by Germany.
The national assembly, by ratify- <
ng the treaty, makes it possible for *
;he allied and associated powers to
aise the blockade. v Official notified ,
;ion was sent Germany June 29 that
;he blockade Would-be raised when
he treaty wa sratified. Placing thin
:ondition on the raising of the block*
?le was looked upon in peace conference
circles as a sure plan for
lecturing speedy ratification by Gernany.
The
council of five on Monday de- i
:ided to Hft the commercial cen- \
lorship on communications with Gernany
simultaneous with the removal
>f the blockade.
When three of the principal alied
powers, in addition to Germany,
lave ratified ,the treaty it becomes
effective for those who have rati*
lied it. After Germany and the
Jiree allied powers have ratified it,
;he treaty wilt come into force for
?ach other power on the day\*ken
It notifies, the peace conference secretariat
of its ratification.
Berlin, Tuesday, July 8?Germany
is to return quickly to a peace-time
financial system, said Mathias Eizt>eiger,
vice chancellor and minister
of finance, speaking at Weimar before
the German national assembly
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bvruAjr. jrmivug omer tilings the payment
of grants to men who are unemployed
will be reduced, it wae indicated
during his address.
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ANOTHER POLICEMAN
- CONSIDERED FOR CITY > .
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The matter of naming another policeman
for night work in Abbeville
erill be taken up at the monthly
meeting of City Council tonight.
rhis city is getting too large to be
patrolled by one "cop."
Business pertaining to the paving
of the city streets will be taken- up
?tvuj, mm rnaiiua Ul luutine UUtSlness
at the meeting tonight.
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THE GREAT STAKE.
Congressman Towner, of Iowa,
mentions that in the Department of
the Interior there is a Bureau of Education,
for which Congress appropriates
something less than half a
million dollars a year. In the same
department there is a Bureau of Indian
Affairs, for which Congress appropriates
something more than nine
millions a year, most of which is
spent on education.
All honest radicalism puts equality
of opportunity as the grand objective
of social effort. Equality of opportunity
begins with equal chance
for education. Though all Russian
statistics are only approximations,
it is probable that seventy per cent
Df the inhabitants of that country
ivere illiterate at the beginning of
the war. That fact alone largely explains
Bolshevism. Their Romanoff
tyranny collapsed of its own rottenness,
and then they did not know
ivhat to do.
Education is the great interest of
this country. No other big interest
iias been so slighted. Five and a lialf
million illiterates in 1910 is only one
bit of the evidence. Bare literacy,
jnder the Census Bureau's definition,
is no more education than one
ung in sound physical condition. j
Education ought to be predomilantly
a state interest; but it is also
;heN greatest national interest. Nothng
the national government can do
:o stimulate and advise state activi;y
will be amiss. No reconsturction
program can afford to overlook the
Foundation. A revival for better education,
with a big push from Washington,
is due now.
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