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ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner ABBEVILLE, S. C. H. G. CLARK, Editor. The Press and Banner Go. Published Every Tuesday and Fridaj Telephone No. 10. > * Entered as second-class mail matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C Term* of Subscription: One year $2.0C Six months l.OC Three months .50 Payable invariably in advance. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1919. THE NEW COTTON MILL. If the attitude of those business men who attended the meeting last . Tuesday morning is any indication of the sentiment of the business men in this town, taken as a whole, then we will build a new million and a half dollar cotton mill. r If we have correctly sized up the situation the people believe that Mr. Jas. P. Gossett is the kind of business man! they desire to head the enterprise and pilot the movement. The City of Abbeville has, we believe, taken on new life. It might y have done so twenty years ago, and not taken a position in the background of progress. Ten years ago another mill might have been built, and could have been Dunt, 11 tne faith of the business men had been as strong as the judgment of some of us. But it is never too late to do good, nor for a city to grow. Grow we must, and grow we will. Young men are\at the front now who have caught a new vision for the best and most historic of the Piedmont towns. They will make it the most progressive. A meeting of all the citizens oi the town, and of the citizens living in the county who are like-minded with us, will be held in the Court House at an early date, to which meeting Mr. Gossett has again been invited. The information which was given to a few people at the meeting Tuesday will be given to the public, and a decision will be reached as to the steps i> taken. h would be ? line thing if the. peo pie would at that mectlTig pledge a _ half million dollars in stock subscriptions to the proposed corporation, and if definite steps were then and there taken to make the industry a reality. It may be done if every man will in the meantime take the full measure of his ability to help, and if every man, setting an example for his neighbor, and not waiting to see what bthers will do, shall come forward and give a full aftfl's blow for Abbeville, Abbeville is picking up. The Press and Banner says: "A great many people (In Abbeville) these days, it would seem, are learning how to have soup for dinner and to eat olives."? Spartanburg Journal. ? There is talk now of forming an Abbeville Society in Spartanburg, so many excellent people having come here from that county to live and build up this great City of the Piedmont.?Spartanburg Journal. What's the use of taking stock in oil wells when city property can be Dougnt in ADDeviue ior $z,uuu ana sold immediately for $3,250, the first purchaser reserving half of the land contained in the original plat, which he holds probably at twice what he gave for the whole premises. The Director of Finance of the Democratic National Committee should be givon fllO n Q mo nfi'/inlo? /lAftL.v in real estate, who ought to shell out at least $1,000 for the continuance of the people in power who made such transactions possible.?Spartanburg Journal. Buys Williams College Property. P. Rosenberg has bought the Williams College property near Fort Pickens, containing 42 acres, the price paid being $8500. . ..y - . - . . .. . HILLBILLIES GET ACTION. . Gen. J. S. Stark (Wo always call a man who runs a bank with money to loan, General) has notified several of his friends, in due form of law, that they are expected to assemble at his home, which has now turned a little towards Greenville Street, this ** <"? r\ T ?4. If, evening at i :<5u, at wmcn nuui n- j= r expected that everybody will be ready to "eat a snack", and play winning set-back. The General says that he will not impose nephew on any of his friends, but that partners will be selected by lot, and every guest given an equal chance to flee from the wfath which is sure to follow after playing with him as a partner, Maj. Davis, as the guest of honor, I is feeling his most military, and the i man who plays with him may be sure ] of having a first class partner, who plays with the cut-out open, and climbs hills on high. .following uenerai starK, in me noble work undertaken for this evening, we will have Corp. Kerr on deck (rabbit pie) with Col. Wade S. Cothran to follow (possum and taters.) To the others of the guests we would say that no man should grow tired in well doing. . ' : i . I ; . ' ; i. V \ V GENERAL NEWS. V V ; * ' V Confident of 3trike. Miami, Fla., Oct 29. _ Labor leaders today express confidence that the vote being- taken among the 3,600 members of local Unions will favor calling a general strike, though the vote will not be counted before Monday night. No conference between employers and labor has been arranged. P- D? -?- AMa.nl jDaoy ringer i nui> *-? ?. v.?? Adornments. New York, Oct. 28.?Baby finger {prints on the wallpaper are the finest examples of mural art. This was the decision handecK down in the Bronx municipal court -of Justice Robitzek, I in dismissing a suit to recover alleged damages because a baby had emjbellished the interior decorations of an apartment with a frieze all its own. "This would be a happier world to live in," the justice said, "if baby fingers could only make their imprint on the hearts of men and women, I would rather see the print of J baby finger? ?n wall of my house i than have them adomeu with the (world's jnasterpieces," I Washington, Oct. 29.?Although congress recently passed an.act calling for a special cottoi? report as of October 31, a month-later than usual, the department of agriculture advises Senator Harris that the report i cannot be entirely completed because of a mix-up over comparative figures and the method of taking the census. - '1 C?,1- vnnnvf mnrip SO Since this is tne nm late in the season, the department says, there is no basis on which to calculate a report of cotton in bales. Cotton Selling at 40 Cent*. Cotton was selling in Lancaster on Friday for forty cents a pound, and Commissioner B. Harris, of the State department of agriculture, who has j just returned from a day spent in I Chesterfield county, says he found --aa? v.aro at fnrtv cents for cuuuii aciuug HIV.V ? , inch staple, and 38 1-2 cents for shorter staple. Mr. Harris says that cotton is worth fifty cents a pound, which he contends should be the minimum price, and urges the farmers to quit selling at the present prices. "The farmers must use common sense and good judgment," he says. "They have the situation . in their hands if they will hold it. Again I repeat my last winter slogan: Sit steady in the boat. Cotton would be cheap at 50 cents. Mark my words. . The time to start to fixing the price of the 1920 crop is today. Get * ' " 1 * ?l x 1 I ready to plant plenty 01 wneai anu oats and barley and other grains, jand get a reasonable amount of live i stock to start the year. Then what j cotton you plant will "be a surplus and I you can market it as you wish. Next iMay cotton will be bringing?oh, well, I am afraid to say what I think for fear that I will be misunderstood. ; But, mark my words, cotton will i bring the price it should have?and for the first time in cotton history." 1 4 | BOUGHT AND SOLD SAME DAY?FOR A PROFIT J J. S. Stark bought from William McNeill Thursday, fifty acres n- ar town, the price paid being $7J10. He sold the property the same day to J. S. Banks for $7750, a profit of $G00. ,! Linen Shower. i Mt. Carmel. S. C.. Oct. 25.-,?The , Ilinen shower given in honor^of Miss J Sara Boyd, by Miss Maggie Suther, land, on Friday afternoon, October IT, proved to be a beautiful social event. Miss Sutherland's home, which was ! thrown opefi with gracious hospital* [ity, was artistically decorated in white chrysanthemums and graceful ! ferns. ' _ In a corner of the hall a punch I bowl was hidden in a bank of ferns I interspersed here and there with ; white chrysanthemums/As the guetss entered they were ushered to the punch bowl by Mrs. W. A. Scott, and were served delicious frappe by Beatrice Pruitt and Juanita Curtiss. After everyone had assembled in the living room, Miss Annie M^e Murray, an attendant of Anderson ! College, acting as an old black mam my, entered saying she had heard i there would be a "Shower" "that afternoon so would 'fetch' in the Linen beforehand. She presented her basjket to Miss Boyd, and as the bride' elect admired her lovely gifts "Mam^ my" joined in with praise. 1 After this, cards beaming crooked 'marks wer6 passed with pencils and each , guest was asked to add more to these marks and draw something for 'the bride's house. The contest was an amusing one?and was enjoyed by all. An ice course followed by green and white mints,N^ras served by little Irene Boyd and Hessie Morrah. Those who had the pleasure of be if-V . n._j.i i .1 _ i mg miss oumenana s guests \yere; Miss Marie Leslie, Miss Eliza Covin, Miss Bessie Jones, Miss Ethel Sharp, Mrs. J. T. Scott, Miss Dora Black, Miss Florence Black, Mrs. H. W. Boyd, Mrs. Lawrence Hester, Miss jEmilie Mae Hester, Miss Janie Le, Roy, Mrs. W. B. Knox, Miss Susie Patterson, Mrs. P. B. Morrah, Miss Jenna Boyd, Mrs. H. D. Brown, Miss ] Mildred Boyd, Miss Reba Wells, Mrs. jW. 0. Covin, Miss Robbie Covin, Mrs !J. W. Boyd, Miss Helen Cabal, Mrs. W. A. Scott, Miss Fannie Mae Wright, Miss Edna Smith, Miss Corinne Smith, Miss Maggie Brough, jMiss Rebecca Wardlaw, Miss Elizaibeth Wardlaw, Miss Catherine Gibert, Miss Janie Lee Morrah, Miss Isabelle M'cBride, Miss Louise McBride and Miss Gertrude Morris. \ jNunnally's Candies always fresh at j Austin-Perrin Drug Co. I ! WANTS I I FOR SALE:?Seed barley and rye, at $2.75 per bushel, also Texas Red . rust-proof seed Oats at $1.00. 10-31-2t. S. J. LINK. iWHF.N IN NEED?of a good plum ber, Phone 349. J. E. NORRIS. ! . 10-31-3t.Pd. FOR SALE:?jOne second-hand .onehorse wagon in good conditon. 10-31-2t. S. J. LINK. THE ROSENBERG MERCANTILE CO.?Require another competent man or woman for dry goods store. Must be experienced in selling Ladies Ready-to-Wear. 10-31-lt. I [FOR SALE:?Carload pure wheat bran. $2.75 per 100 lbs. or $50.00 per ton. , " S. J. LINK. vl0-31-2t. LOST:?Somewhere on the Public Square most likely between Mc! Murray's Drug Store and the Red j Cross Home Service office, a Purse, J containintr a bill and some small change. Monogram K. C. M. Phone i 366. v lO-Sl-lt. r |FOR SALE:?P. J. Leach House and Lot on the corner of Cherokee and i Lemon streets. Price $3250. Apply J. S. Stark and T. G. White, i 10-28-3t. 'FOR SALE:?Ford Roadster, Hudson Six, Buick Six, Buick Four, Overland 79. * MARTIN AND PENNAL, 10-14-tf. City Garage. RESERVATIONS TO TREATY i NOT LIKED BY ALLIES 1 ?? Washington, Oct. 28.?Foreign i 'governments do not like the reserva- < jtions to the peace treaty that have ( Ibeen adopted by the committee on ( foreign relations of the United States 1 r*-.* 1 .1 , 1 'senate, rney are nopetui tnat tne i United States government will never t | present the reservations as at present s jphrased to the various foreign offices 1 ! of the principal powers for acept- i ance because an awkward situation/ ^ unprecedented in diplomacy might present itself, for, while the differ- ( ent governments have no objections ' to reservations or interpretations that define just how America understands the treaty to apply or the pVovisons of the League of Nations to operate, they most decidedly, wish to be kept free from interference as betwet.i llie legislative and executive departments of the United States government. Information cs to the atttirde which would be assumed by the principal powers can be obtained by inquiry at any of the foreign offices of Europe or their diplomatic represenfatives abroad because there is a definite feeling that the preamble adopted by the senate com:nii'.ee which would bind Great B/t-nin, France, Italy and Japan to accept the America reservations tc.ore they can be valid is embarrassi ig. Had the senate specified its reservations and left it to foreign powers to remain silent, thereby indicating acquiescence, much of the difficulty would Lc removed. * B.it the preamble insists thut the governments of Great Britain, Prance, Italy .[and Japan must express themselves should the point be presse^ by the senate. It is most certain that some of the governments would decline to say anything on certain of the reservations which they regard as purely a question of American sovereignty. STATE BAPTISTS CONVENTION. rS-AmTrill,. C ^ A.i OO Tlit U1CCUT1UC) O. U.) Utt. ?0.?lllllliy Baptists from all parts of South Carolina are planning to attend the State Baptist Convention to be held in Columbia November 10. J1 and 12. Leaders in this body anticipate the largest convention ever, held in point of attendance and one of the | r ?? I F The Will b? *o moi In Three \ Tract No. road Tract No. Tract No< / lie ro TERMS.in th; \ / m len # Jar J- S * I raostimportant in point o$ construc;ive plans that are to be formulated. The last day of the convention, it ivas announced at Campaign headluarters here today, will be devoted entirely to the Baptist 75 Million Campaign, and in . order that this nay oe done the regular business will je concentrated in the sessions of ;he two previous days. The discussion of the Campaign, which is to be leld November 30 to December 7, vill no doubt be the chief feature of ;he Convention, however, as this \ irive is the greatest ever attempted jy the denomination. 75 A F O R f ?? \ ) A real bargain, jus ville, on the Verdery now in cultivation, pl< wood. Good well. G With the progress now this land will be acre in a few years. * / / i - 4 \ Our prices, $80.001 terms. Dixie Land L. M. TALBERT, or Sal t ' s \ Old Bass Pla ild at Auction at Court h ^DAY, NOVEMBER : Tracts, as follows: 10 1 o A i:A. ? lO 1-4 iicd at 2.?Home Pl&cer66 3-4 , 3.?46 1-4 Acres, front >ad running by John Che -1-3 Cash January 1; ree years. ms: one third c luary 1st balaii 5. ST A J N ''These Rat* Wouldn't Eat My Beit Grain," Say* Fred Lamb. It's hard to keep rats oat oi a feed store. Tried for years. A neighboring store sold me some RAT-SNAP. It worked wonders. Gathered up dead < rats every morning. Bought more T) Am O XT A T> TT 9i xv?.A-oiNAx-. . naven c a ran now. They wouldn't eat my bjest j?rain when I threw RAT-SNAP around." Three sizes, 25c. 50? $1.00. Sold and guaranteed by P. B.- Speed and The Rosenberg Mercantile Co.?Adv. } ' 1 Engraved cards and wedding inve ntions at Press and Banner Co. * r ' / " fr? cres , **: . >v SALE / f _ i. ? _ ! ? A T-l- ~ i two nines o? auiw a Road. 2 horse farjn I enty of pasture and 9 ood 4-room house. B Abbeville is making ( B worth 1300.00 per I I Per Acre, with good Bj SB m I rnmnanv I Abbeville, S. C. I ' fl . ~ ., ,. y KJ HH DBH / KB * > B ???? / louse, on H H Hi ross the H \ Acres. HD ing pub- ' M atham's. I Balance H ash H ice r> \f . j B