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r ESTABLISHED 1844. The Press and Banner ... ' ABBEVILLE, S. C. Press and Banner Company W&fiP Pubished Every Tuesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail matter at- post office ? ir. Abbeville, S. C. I Terms ot Subscription; One year ~ $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months i .50 Payable invariably in advance. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1920. 7 NO WORD OF MONEY. v. ; ~ r The Charlotte papers of Tuesday carried an .-lab I ate account of a big banquet of Erskine Alumr. ;. onday night at Ivey's Cafeteria, Charlotte, atnded by 125 former students of the Due West Blege and presided over by the Rev. W. W. Orr, p., pastor of the A. R. P. Church in Charlotte. R banqueters seemed to have had a "whoopingHtime, but the news account carries no word of effort to raise funds for Erskine College, jft these loyal alumni expecting all of the funds Ha by Erskine to be raised in Due West? Prob" ~ *?1? In'+iaHvp IBhey wait for uue west io wme ??. Saybe they are saving their money against the ; when the college is located in finer, bigger idings in some finer, bigger town and they can ow more closely that biblical precept,?to him t hath shall be given. ^ H SOME CORN! |g| Charlotte Evening News Monday carried a of some wonderful corn-dry?the seed of Vis supposed to have been selected by Joseph Brior to the famine in Egypt during which famBe young man fed Pharoah's people as well I own 'brethren. A Charlotte man is the proud Bsor of the few grains which he interns to Bthis spring and the newspaper states that they B^iven^him by an Abbeville man. We are tlgt the Abbeville citizen was not patriotic EEm^Bhave given a little of the valuable seed Trar local Burbanks who may have proM^Bnacea for the boll weevil ravages. HH^Vof our reader's or any of you who have I^E^hfoor read his paper to you, know who this EB'bbeville party is, please inform us and we ^B him no end of notoriety for his lack of injWi hoi^e industry. W LET'S QET IN LINE. n - I tjalizing tfle inevitable trend along school lines Abbeville as well as throughout the country, ref^ has been made several times lately in these ns to school finances. The time has now come Rjye must either do something, and do it quick, F.;e we had better lock up the school buildings le close of the present session and turn the keys ' to .Sheriff Burts. he school board at a meeting Tuesday afternoon i*H?B^imously to ask the county delegation to ?t,,o Kill onfVinri7.inc>' an I^LISIUWUIC tu Jiiiii^rviuww u iktaa* ? ? ? ?> ???0 |B in Abbeville school district to provide for ^Ease of four mills in the special school tax. these mills already exist but the proceeds Buired by the present law to be appropriated sinking fund. This fund^has accumulated Ithan was anticipated at the time the bonds Boated and sufficient funds are now on hand JUem the outstanding bonds. It is the desire e trustees that the proceeds of these two mills ^ied to building improvements and repairs. mills, will--be used for increasing a figure we can pay th<>m a gEDHnd will have only capable and exB^Bchers to run our schools. / ^wanticipate no opposition to such a nec worthy issue yet we feel that it is only Bie citizens know something of the school jM/'e are at our row's end with the present Ki if we even have any sort of school at ' 1 ar it will take more money than the prespe affords. fiStrict now has only ten mills special tax : tically all of the cities the size of Abbeville up have from twelve to fifteen. Anderson * 1 * X - ? - l-? ? mmaa'aI v f A vveeK proposes to raise uei ^c?.ioi wa w ., HSfflKSHA mills. The Anderson board finds itself. ^HHHHraBpn with a deficit of eighteen thousand dol-.; three thousand more than it will cost IrajSrorun our schools this session. Greenwood ha9 a movement on to increase her special tax severaiimills eE although Greenwood is now paying ^her 'teacheri B more than we and ha&nb deitctt. She doesn't inm -* ttind to jjpa?e^sy eitlfer/if lve^rfd'^htly. > 'j.nwn deficit is contrary td Wliaw and if trus-. ' QwKSHB according'to th<T strict "letter of the law ?-r I^^uld close school just as soon as tne expenses > seded the revenue."' ort Mill, a town half the size of Abbeville, has >en mills special tax and Hartsville about the e size as our city has had twelve mills for two rS- O he estimated increase in the running expenses he Aibbeville schools next session will be &h$ut .. thousand dollars and it's up to you whether we * -A- If --iL mnvn nrfttrrocfiiup PHTTI PHP get into line wiwi vvuci .?** v^? Vww? * v ? ? nities or shall lag. behind with our teaching ,, |$e vymposed of thf leavings This scarcity of good teachers is not a bugaboo, IBn * 4 'Asv^ not propaganda set in motion by any teachers' association but it is a dead certainty and a solemn fact. Superintendent Fulp of our schools spent 1 1 * -- ?~ ?vi/l AifiAfl + rv nearly a ween in various twwua aim nw? ujms w find a teacher for the vacancy at the Mill school and it was only by a streak of good fortune that he found a teacher who, more from the goodness of her Impart than from a desire to work, agreed to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the session. An indisputable example of the scarcity of teachers was exhibited in Rock Hill a few weeks ago when one section, whose teacher was taken sick, had to be dismissed l'rom school as not even a substitute could be secured. The State superirfFendent of education is advertising an extra examination for 'teachers' certificates January 10 in order to try I *10 provide additional teachers for the country | schools throughout the state that have not been able to begin work this session at all on account of inability to secure teachers. i Folk's we have tried to state the situation as it is. It's up to you to make it what it should be. \ ? WE TAKE IT BACK. .Some time ago we had occasion to say that the city papers never put themselves to any trouble to say a good word for Abbeville, its people, its institutions and progress. We, of course, had Spartanburg, Greenville and Greenwood'chiefly in mind when we said this. Our statement was general however, and when along comes a kind writer-man, John M. Banks, of the Columbia Record, and indulges in the following encomiums, we are constrained to 'ake it all back. Our hospitality, our hotel, our stores, our c ty j schools with Major J. D. Fulp, the Proper-Gander, our postoffice, our churches, and other things?all are mentioned with words of praise. One thing was mentioned which we lack, a Carj negie Library. But the writer, no doubt, seeing how we excelled along other lines, just took the library for granted. And we have a splendid liI brary, if not an advertisement of the late lamented i canny Scot. The article was so sincere and the words of praise salve our pride so much and are so obviously descx-ved that we must not only thank Mr. Banks i 1 a or. ttliu tuc W1UI11U1A AVCVV1U XVI HUU^YiUC, UUd i>v/ i far as to extend the warmth of our genial mood to | Spartanburg, Greenville and Greenwood, hoping ! that their leading papers (the Journal ?nd the Piedmont and the Index-Journal) will do as "iiand| seme" by us. The tenor of the writer's remarks ledas us to believe that no ulterior motive moved him to action, but rather was the article engendered of a postprandial enthusiasm following Mrs. Taggart's j Christmas dinner. The article of Mr. Banks follows:' "It was the privilege and pleasure of the writer to spend Christmas day with relatives in Abbeville, one of the ojld towns of South Carolina where there is a genuine hospitality and a friendly handshake from everybody, Abbeville is one of the most cosmopolitan towns of the state. It has produced some of 'the greatest statesmen that have gone to the halls of congress or occupied seats in the state government. Today it is well represented in the judicial and" executive departments of South Carolina. It is one of the old towns of South Carolina where there is a true spirit of friendliness, a cordiaT greeting for all who visit within its borders. "Abbeville, while having the qualities of the old, is keeping: apace with tht modern city and there is great promise for the up-state town. It is the home of a large and growing business in various lines. It has a large number of handsome, stores with full stacks; it has a modern theatre;, one of the best i courthouses in the state; an excellent hotel, which is one of the places that the traveling man likes to "hit" about meal time. Mrs. Taggart, an Abbeville woman who has charge of the house is making a splnedid success of the business and the writer can testify from experience that one 6f the"" best Christmas dinners in the state was enjoyed by the hotel's guests and their guests Thursday. "Abbeville also has an excellent system of city /' schools today, with Major James D. Fulp, who made a valiant record with the gallant 81st "division "over there." The schools are live, they have an excellent corps of teachers, a fine set of boys and girls. The high school pupils.iss^e one of the best school papers in'the state, called "Proper-Gander." The j high school also has two live literary societies and j one of the entertainments of the holiday season was y a public debate held in the theatre when the young men and women put up strong debates on the query: "Resolved, That the United States should continue to own and operate the railroads." The high school puj on a fast, if light, football team and made a creditable showing #against many heavier teams. A game is planned for .Friday afternoon with the Clemson scrubs, which, although consider. -ftbly. putweighing the school team.is not furnishing 1 ?, ?.W "s?ar?!?;for.'the," r jv' "Abbeville also has a'city mail delivery. A mod-. . ero ,pos.toffice building graces the town. A Carnegie . . . library is also one of the town's prides. "The town is located on the main car line of the Seaboard and on a branch of the Southern. The Seaboard Air Line has a large shop there. "Abbeville is one of the best cotton markets in the state and has a wide and productive farming center from which to draw a large trade. "Abbeville, in short, is one of the best little cit-. ies in the state. It has a population of about 5,000 and in every heart beat^ the same spirit to make Abbeville a good place to live in which is contagious, for when one goes there he feels tempted to hang ftis hat in the old town and call it 'Home Sweet Home."' . > | _ ^MMNWwi*iioi?iw?#milwuiimhiuimwimniummuihwttiw?imiH??mwtmiiiiuinumMiMn imnumiiKMLntwini I || 11 \ [ LE AST || % 11 II s s 1! [What? i \ / L \\T 1. wait? Phone 322 i! / ji ii - II j Where I I 1 ! !' x ' i \\ 1 ;| War Savings Stamps I . ' * ;| Liberty Bonds, i Real Estate Papers, i Life Insurance Polici \ And other valuable Why run th | papers? Cor I you our J: s I BOXES. 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