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ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner . . . ABBEVILLE, S. C. "4!#^ . '' . fi. G. CLARK, Editor. The Press and Banner Go. Published Every Tuesday and Friday 1 Telephone No. 10. , -i? ?n ~.f_ Enteveti &s secoD<H?x? iuw> ter at past office in Abbeville, S. C, | -?s , ; Term of SuWerAica: .tEX Three n^ths , Payable invariably in 'fcdvtrock TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1919. . ' THE RED CROSS DRIVE. < i The Third Red Cross Roll is about to prove a none too conspicuous success in Abbeville. The quota here is $2,000. To date the amount collected is slightiy-oves $600. There is no report from "the" county. A fairly thopugh'canvass of the men of this town has<xtisdo$ed. that there is a v considerable percentage who will not give to the , Red Cross. Of this perv centage perhaps the largest number are tired of drives. For this no one * can blame them. There has been a plague of drives in recent months for every conceivable purpose under the sun and the public is weary of them. A few who have refused ' are opposed to the Red Cross, or have said they were. * This is astounding and we are constrained to believe that this statement was r. me v sub terfuge or such persons are co/ist.ituS ticnally opposed to every thirsr chat means a dollar out of their pockets; there are still that kind running loose. Other people refuse! because they had given their limit to ether good causes?the most legitimate for not giving to thp ReJ Cross. W% believe that ail who can ?:lTord to give $1.00 to the Reef Crov?r.;r! there are very few who cannot -^ should enroll as members. It? wi rk in the past has proved that ic is at all times, in peace and war, cne of the most useful organizations in this country?all this aside from higher motives of giving. V ; On the other hand we are in sympathy with those who have been satiated with drives for the past two years. There is too ready ground for " suspicion that officers of various organizations ar^ personally interested in continuing the work /after peace has arrived just in order' to keep a \ nice easy job. We do not believe that this is the case in many instance^ but many people ^ do. Just. from a practical viewpoint, then, let the "drives" cease, for a while, and give the heckled public a chance to accumulate a little against the day when >an obviously necessary cause needs and asks for money. ' ARMISTICE DAY. ?i* . * , ' Today is the anniversary of the signing of the armistice, a day that historians have already said and will T continue to say marks the turning point in the history of the world, . Despite the year that has intervened the war is still with us and the results?confusion ?nd near chaos?aVe too prevalent to get a perspective. It's not a close-up the world needs, it's a fade-away. * / The average soldier who has returned from the war is the mor pleased the less said about anything pertaining to the war. There are those who lost relatives in the strug gle whose heart-strings are touched with memories of the day. But the world generally is too harrassec^ tc feel very deeply about the matterjust yet. Ten years cr more, when the work: is again itself, and memories of tht - noble sacrifice made by our soldier I? AL _ n A VTT in nie vireai war win mean more tc us. The sun of a new and wonder r: ful era will be well up in the heaven: and the Day will then bygin to shim with a peculiar glory. Abbeville boy who lost hi: life in-the great war left -kindred anc friends who.will hpld dear the thoughl . ? of him^and the grea^sacrifice ht mde.. This thought will tye held ant cherished and will grow more dear asjb the years go by untiL.it becomes all I ( embracing and will mean as time goes c by a heartfeit tribute to the great i cause for which we fought?freedom. . - t n?ni>ntvn?VC<DQ nWT.Y. lAAr/VlAitw m { ' :e f .proper-Gander.) j . On obfci; "occasion Aristotle was ^ asked h?w much educated men were ^ {superior to those- uneducated:"As much" said he, "as the living are to ' the deacl" It is also a saying of his ^ that education wa$ an ofoanttnt *-i* < prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ? j There is no need for us to even , \j j i mention any arguments in favor of the benefits of educatiojn. in this city ' fbr everybody$ei^rkrtQWfcthat, as' our f OTyA. LqFwell has so aptfy said, "it was; # ill'making education not only common' * to all, but in sitae iense compulsory jon all, that tie destiny of the free ^ j republics of America was practically .'settled." '/ ' I ' ' w 0 Now we have educational advaii- t tages in Abbeville superior in many fl respects to those of some cities of r the same size, istiit have we the best j. we can afford. Is there any parent v in Abbeville county who thinks t: at g there is anything in the world too g good for their children? If so, Cod r pity them.: But are our schools good enough.'for our children^ JQwilt.. you think that with a little-loosening . of purse strings, that we -could makfe ^ some vastly beneficial improvement?? For instance, we want : to hold . the r best of our present teachers and substitute better ones for any who may not in the course of the session come up to the standard we think they ught. ' ^ 1 o If other towns, paying better sal- ^ aries and needing teachers, see that g we have good teachers don't you . think that these teachers are going to be flooded with offers of better f r positions? And can you blame them j J for leaving our schools when social I c conditions and conveniences, particularly in the board question are equal, if not superior to those here, when ^ jthey are offered a wage which will j jcome nearer obtaining for them the I necessities of life? . 1 iv We should have a rising scale of! r pay for our teachers. A first year I j ^teacher, with little or no experience, should be paid the minimum salary, but that should be sufficient for the * - I teacher to live on. men eacn year they give satisfaction and remain iwtih us their salaries should be increased, until a certain maximum >'limit is reached. Do you merchants ':pay the clerk you have just employed ;the same salary tliafc you do a tried . and trustworthy employee who has given you the best years of his life? i Why should not schbols be run on a (business basis? In the store you are entrusting^our money to the clerk;I I in the school you are entrusting your . | children to the teacher. Which is dearer to your heart? Who has the 'greater responsibility? J The trustees are arranging to convert the proceeds of the two mills ; which have hitherto been applied on ! the sinking fund but which are no i longer needed, to' the current expenses of the schools'and are going l . ifa o?lr van fovyiqvdtc fn ln^roflqo j wvr won your taxes two mills more, making a ; total of four mills increase in the ! amount collected for carrying on the | work of educating your children in 'the best manner. Are you going to make it unanimous or are some of i you going to insist that your children be taught by inexperienced girls, ! supervised by incompetent men ? We j J don't believe there are any such peojple in Abbeville. ' jvvvvvwv ,'lv V V HERE, THERE,? ^ . V1 AND EVERYTHING V I kvwvvvv^vvvvwv ] t i . | To!. S. J. Link, the king of Press l( [land Banner Block, has stretched f .jagain. This time he pulled one endj' ?|of his business far enough to cover : Jibe space formerly occupied by the * Smathers Motor Company, a business 1 11 completely overshadowed in the past ' j by Link's bargains. Those who came ( i to buy automobiles remained to load j | up 011 Link's produce and household ' .j plunder. J , I The new space on Pickens Street ( ;: is Annex No. 2, and how fortunate it 1 i? n_i i a it._ j.l-1 n^i t t iis ior jjmey ana aiiie tnat ^oi. uiiik .lis not stretching towards them. He 1 ? < i i hi*.: promised us in their behalf, that;' ' he will make >no move to take them ;' / over until he has extended his busi- : 11 ness around the corner to the Sea- 1 i \ " 1 loard. The new Annex, it is stated., not in our advertising columns) but >n a big piece of brown pasteboard n the left-hand window, is to be in harge of General Gambrell. (He has >een promoted in title and we hope n salary since we last mentioned his tame ?in this here column.) flAitavol .Tnhn' tilfllr MB hv t.VlP ftrrrt n Saturday morning and led . us by he bargains offered in said window, ellingj us how much moneyhe was tble to save the poor man if the later wanted to buy. We told Col. R. V. Smith, lately a farmer and newsw T;- . . ?aper correspondent, but now a member of the new aristocracy on South lain street, about these bargains. If-said that he never listened at any ^'^^^fhout bargains. Hetdld ^ flian had bargains tp.ofer'^oe bed always found tjtat tie told tie ^dple ^bout it himself (from the iouse*tt>pis v r(advertising columns of ?he Press and Banner) and ttiat uness General Gariibrell would come >ut like, a man and tell the people in he only proper way what he had to. >ffer in cold print, and where his iame might be printed in laifee type, te expected him to do well to be pater-boy at the next big furniture :ame. The poor man, Col. . Stnith tated, will accept no hearsay testinony. ."Last Friday's paper fitted, tomenion the fact that Corp, Kerr had on "uesday evening, before entertained -J. w 'i . m ripst. of the prqminent gentlemen in own at a setback affair. We failed o mention the matter for two reaQns; one was that it was so long rom Tuesday until Friday that in the ush of business on this block we verlooked it unjtil the forms were nade up; the other was that residing intirely on Greenville Street, and beng a man of so much modesty, we hought perhaps Corpulent would ap>reciate it if we $d not print affairs ike this given by him along with news >f parties given on ottier everyday treets where they want everything vritten up, and all names mentioned, beginning and ending with capital etters. We had this last impression emoved, however, Saturday morning vhen we received the following communication through the mail: 3arty Editor, Press and Banner, Abbeville, S. C. Dear Sir:?Please discontiriue rhy rnper and refund my money, also cut >ut all advertisements, but you may :ontinue to put my name in the pa>er. I suppose you know why. Well, f you don't I had as well tell you ;hat I have got as much rteht U. j mve my parties written up in ,your' )aper as has Uncle Jim. In fact, nore so, becarfse I live on Greenville itreet, while he is only partly on that itreet. It is true that he may have i little more money than I have but am coming. If this Edison business ^eps up, with furniture, buggies and vagons, 'and there is a large crop of abbits on the lower place of the ?err-etc.-Horton-etc.-Company next rear, and the price of cotton is right i will be just along-side of him. Of :ourse, if you do not want to send ny money back, or have already inent it, you might still make a brief nention of the party, promising to lo better next time. Just say about he party that about twenty-seven >rominent men and Jenner Link, my sompetitor, were there; that Jim Mctfillan was late coming because he ays since prohibition went into effect ;here is no reason to hurry to a par;y. Say that the whole house was lung open open and that the furlishings were exquisite, having been >urchased from the Emporium owned >y me and Uncle Jim; that when all be guests were assembled everybody ncluding Pat Roche of the Hillbillies, md Dr. Harrison looked wise and ook a seat at the first table they :ould get to, and that Cousin Fannie md- Cousin Mary and Big Sister and Miss Plevna Seal, who plays the orjan in the Presbyterian choir, in elaborate style, served "a tempting salad course," as they always do at adies' parties, and that all the men ite everything on their plates; and ;hen were ready for dessert, which vas also eaten up; that cigars were massed, the nickel ones which I purrhase-l and the fifteen centers which Did Man Longshore contributed to i :he party, and that Bill Wilson ] imolred two ntteen cent cigars. W hat: lo you think of Bill with thirty cents | ivorth of prood cigars in his system in! 3ne night? Say that all the gentle-1 men played splendid set-back except Hapt. Fuln. whom I had tq carry, and lie was some load, which I dropped j it the end. Be sure to have a nice notice of cousin Tom; call him Mai or j ' , ' , . . - -I ' ..?. . [ ... rnsor i--thePh y ?.' jf : f-1 * t>. v :? r-"*. J ' Stf-Mr*'/ Are yo\i one 0 graph can ma ,, . An astonishin thousand Abb Morrisey recil Thomas A. Edis - Mmous Tone-Tegl night in the Ope He had Miss Moi ^ ) iii ditfect compftris : : RE^rea^ION & I hyv"'?-,N> Ediso lovers werc com] S r;"' 1 ' 1- V . Come in ar which was us< * - great discovei * T'T IP 1 nL 20-21-26 North *The instrument usee sells for $285 (in Cai Model which Mr. Edij experiments. mss7, i ? Davis, as,that will please Cousin Maty!the and sa;: that if he plays in Winns-:sal< boro like he did at my house Jesse j $ Doty will be sorry when he hi;3 gone, [jf j Also add a line about Uncle ^Jim clS I ppti he always smiles his best when he no- t:;j tices his hartie in the paper. Do rot har forget to say that Dick Sondley was ^ there. You know Dick aoes noi ?cl cne invited out much into swelldom and ery it might promote him in society if the the people knew that I had him at my bid party. Then you know Dick prom- the ised to give a party soon and unless the he is mentioned he might leave you ?j and me at home. Say also that Will cj0 Barnwell was there. I think Will ex- ^ pects to give a party soon, and he the would have done so a good while at?o ces but* he has been waiting on his broth- 0ff( er, Capt. J. Foster Barnwell, who, I think, has ^is eye on a party as soon bee as the mill meeting is over, that is if ciu Mr. Milliken likes the way he is run- * ning business at the mill. Be sure to ? say too that I have gone back to ? playing set-back. You know I said I up at Uncle Jim's party that I had I quit for a month and Gordon White l_ heard me say so, and I thought then he looked like he was going to give another party before the month was , I i out, and was thinking of someone to ^ put in my place. I heard through my wife who has been studying her Sunday School lesson with Mrs. White W* that Gordon may do so at any time, * and I do not wish ^ any misunder- ] standings in the neighborhood. If I ? hear of anything else I will let you FO know. Just make a short notice of J this, ana Kinaiy oDiige, i Yours truly, Corp. J. D. Ken-. ] j The big auction sale of Ihe Hill lands conducted by Southeastern 1 Realty Company of Greenwood, was < a success in every way. It is-true 1 that the lands did not bring their worth, but when it is remembered FO that these lands sold in the early spring for $55,000, and that $85,000 1 was the total price bid for them atj ? the sale on Thursday, it will be seeniLO that, in spite of the enhancement I 1 which has followed since the first sale, j * a good <'eal of credit must be given ( i i JJM Wgsjl'; Sau'fllBi I Mrf * ^n I it lofry onograph w imaze^TiJI .MJjrjS .ttuixd , f those whotbeliev tch tfiewfro of tf Lg uisc^vw^ ^yv?ju ievillians who &tte tal. X-- '' on gave his to distil t Thursday ATED i spa House. You ha rrisey sing phonog] onwifolbe ' her *M?e " - cal-not it*,. Music i quality pietely baf- ' which #ere unable artist. NEW ED ; , . lie Phonograph with * id hear the identi ed Thursday eye y for yourself. KERR FU Main St. I 'in Thursday's Tone-Test is iada $431.) It is an exact di son perfected after spending ; I i ., \ . ? 4.. r \ people who had charge ' o it ' dtnager Pinson with his first not good-looking auctioneer tb?y were r.ot good-lookii i.M Iiiey picked out Col. Jim n as the hm^soTtJort man p iho tale,) and his other ai land-selling business offer body a square dealj and con sale in a manner to pisders. It was i^ot their faul bidders got the bargains an cold-footers didn't. Phe big barbecue served a se of the sales, under the nagement of Mr. J. S. Ban auction company, was also s. All kind? of good thing: >red those present to make >py and if they were not :ause they ate too much. T des Judge M. E. Hollingswc / ' ? . I WANTS R SALE:?Whole sweet mi] 20 cents quart. Ll-4-tf. MRS. D. A. RO< JEN IN NEED-?of a jgood >er, Phone 349. J. E. NO! L0-31-3t.Pd. ; R SALE:?Ford Roadster, E Six, Buick Six, Buick Four, land 79. MARTIN AND PENNA 10-14-tf. City Gar \NTED TO RENT:?One o lorse rr. fcr 1020., Addi :all on G. H. SHEHEK, I 3otf?l Barber Shop. 11-4 R SALE:?Several use Cars MARTIN AND PENN 11-7-tf. City Gar ST:?$150 in long leather j )ook on train between An ind Hodges. Suitable rewar f returned to ' ' " ' ' " " " " !. ' \ i. .,* :N .. OUFS^f * *** " wm "v'vv"i t: ^ Abbevffle ! <? p ~ Vthat jjo phono-: * .. , ie living human? ts you?like the nded $&e(M&iiei' , ' k. 'V j . ngulsh the RE-CREroice from the living.. ,ve never heard any raph that approaches tw , Edison- It REES not orvly the muai- x?.> esi 'Wt every ^hlaive-. of tone and (color isdpi identify the original ' Uu. TO/~k1VT *' " " " " ","r : ISON " ' v f Soul." cal instrument* ; 9 ning. Make the . ' ' " . R. CO. Abbeville, 8. C. s the regular model which ; ,v.:; aplicate of the Laboratory ^ r Thre? Million Dollars in ' ' ' ~ j f the | GUS LAWTON, | ll-ll-3t. Pd. s Verdery, s. U. . * ; class, ' .... . s> (we BIG SALE:?At McNeil's ie?r ig be-! Watts. <?:: Saturday, Nov. 22,1919. Cheat- 1 w"' 8611 on Saturday, Ne*. 22nd, rc-.ent Ketw?/?n 10 and 12 o'clocjc, A. M., des in ^or.-es, jMjr.les, Cattle, Hogs, Cora ed ev- aT!d Farm Tools, upon e4af terms ducted to reliable parties. I have rented jlzc all ?-' my farm an<* ill seed it thuf what I am going to sell, d 11-1M*. . WMH.MLL t the STRAYED:-<-B]ack anc/white,' bull yearling. Owner can/get same by 1 direct "... /. ?. . . paying for keep and for this adverS' 7 tisement. J. T. CHEATHAIjL, o sue- ' 11-1 MtPd. ' Route 1. s were , : them 'i ' it was strayED:?Black horse-mule/ in s in" very good condition. Owner can get same by paying for this ad. and the care of mule for week. EMORY THOMAS, near Harbison College. . 11-lMt.Pd. i I? ? I -OST?Friday afternbon, somewhere on the Square, a medium-size gold Ik, at brooch, with two gold leaves and a coral in centcr. Notify MR1?. RICHGEES. ARD HILL. li-ll-tf. , WANTED?To buy seed cotton at plumQ market pnces. 11-1 l-3t Pd. J. F. SUTHERLAND. [udson STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Over County of Abbeville. ? I Take Notice that on tfie 4th day I age. j of December, 1919, I will Tender a final account of my actings and doinjrs as administrator of the eatate o' r two- b W. J. Tavlor, deceased, in the office ess or ' ' rureka Pr?hate for Abbeville 1 3tPd bounty, an^ 011 s3"10 will apply for a final discharge from my ' trust as such. AL All persons having demands again "-ill mneant samp for nav age. !3U,U *'" *--- ? j :nents on or before that day proven >ocket-iaRl* authenticate J or be forever derson ! barred. dpair]j- JOSEPH HICKS, ! i ] -7.:^\ AdnnnTtrstor. i I-' i