Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I . - 1 * - - ^'1 W SBS-* "* c ! ' I: Abbeville Press and Banner I Fstablished 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Monday, January 5, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75'h V. ,r# - APOSTLE OF GOOD ROADS IS HER :??' ; *V: . # M-L-? Imnwuive Entry On Squa Monday Morning and Spoke 01 Washington and Lee Highway in Afternoon?Has Traveled 43,000 Miles and Has Spent 17 Years in Work. Colonel Chas. W. Thatcher is her He arrived this morning after 43,000 mile journey, riding patient pony, his blue denim ca] flowing in the *chill winter bree: and following was a pack burr evidence of the 43,000 miles, loadc down with newspaper clippings fro papers in every state in the Unio telling of the Colonel's achievemen in promoting the Washington ar Lee Highway, which is scheduled 1 fcj... . ru it from Quebec, Canada, to L< Alleles, Cal. (The Colonel hails from Virgini and is the son of a Clergyman, < which fact he is duly proud and sa: |T that only a Virginian would have tl j courage and the ability to tackle h job which is by way of being an o """ i""* Af tVip transcont UU<U 1UUAUVA v* ? ? nental highway. His official ent) on the Square was quite impressii and was marked by something like i demonstration. A large crowd gat ered and the Colonel addressed the and invited them to the meetir which was held this afternoon. The Colonel asks no financial a sstance himself, but merely "seel to arouse interest in his pet projec the Washington and Lee highwa and dresses and travels in a manm that proves an unique advertisemen He sells carious to pay expense but wants always to be known i the "Apostle of Good Roads." ' Be would have Abbeville ar Abbeville County get back of h project and promises that the hig way will come through Abbeville he is given the proper support. Thatcher travels in a dilapidat< spring wagon, drawn by two mule He prefers to sleep in the open ai xtroofV?or Koafon m UIO XOW nvuwuv* mvwwv.. ? 9u y" tanned by exposure. He garbs hii self in a striking manner and wh< he" was interviewed thi* morning 1 a Press and Banner reporter he wo MB three coats, the top coat being t coat of his rank. He says likes to be garbed so that he c; |Bv ? meet the demands of dress at ajM A moment's notice and that there cai jj^j^be too many ' clothes this kind , weather. Hw At the meeting Monday afterno B he told his audience that his idea j^BI. t c IB/ traveling about the country was thoroughly arouse the people to t .needs and advantages of good roat M He described a system of Bou pBards, flanked with rows of tre ^^^Athat will connect big centers RSSHgfcpulation. He intersperced 1 speech with amusing stories and ? ventures that had befallen him di HfflKL injf his seventeen years of travel. |"And the rugged and impassat MBro^kds shall develop into natior HBBboujlevards and highways; and t ^HBstratnger of two miles down the ro HB^BEhall become a neighbor and all t ?.111 IT..4 4. * A. |y?u win icjuilc. uALiaut irom t of ChaslasiW. Thatcher." The Winuchester (Virginia) St s the following to say of Color etcher: "Col. Charles W. Thatcher kno^ iover the east as the "Apostle Bd Roads," has written the Wi ter Chamber of Commerce th nvill be in Winchester on Sati 9H^HLrl July 12th, in the interest of t KflQHflBlosed Washington and Lee Hig RBfflHlt;Hto run from New York to N He will arrive here, he sai |^H&R^nturday at 9:o0 o'clock and '.v UHHto the people here on the su Rg^Sff^raf good roads, the Plaza havii Iesignatcd as the place and S; af crnoon as the time \vh< I Thatcher will sneak, lis letter to the Chamber Colon*"! TViafrhr?r sa wB^pancelled dates in Pen MaryJand irr order DH^Kinia to boost the pi PKESiDENT MAY RENEW HIS FIGHT FOR PEACE TREATY E Washington, Jan. 1.?President Wilson has re-entered the peace treaty fight, in the opinion of well j ntormect senators to wnom aenaioire Hitchcock today told details of his ? talk with J. P. Tumulty, the president's secretary, late yesterday. Mr. Tumulty said he called on Senator Hitchcock to get information for the president. Senators cannot undertsand why President Wilson wants information concerning a a matter of which he said he had a washed his hands, unless he intends 3e to take it up again. se The president's interest in devel?' opments in the senate is due, it was learned, to recent events in London, m i where the utmost concern is now ben,jing manifested over the proposal to I make the American voting strength id I? _ T XT_ in tne JUtJttgue u? nawuna C^uai WV to that of the British empire. 3S Premier Lloyd George, who recently made a speech championing a? the right of Canada and Australia *f to separate votes in the league, is Ps understood to have communicated ie his views to this government about is the same time pointing out that the f- reservation on this subject, proposed 'i-,by Senator Lenroot, and made part ry'of the Lodge reservations, would I ause trouble. In disfranchises the aj olonies, Lloyd George is said to h-l.ave informed this government, addm ng that Great Britain feels conig strained to oppose any measure which would deny the self-governc_ : ~ 4.1 JL>ui a nine uatiuna ui, me ngiii* IU <s| ook after their own interests in the league. . y?j The Lenroot reservation now ^threatens to become the crux of the t. treaty fight, displacing article ten as s, the obstacle to an agreement, as This was indicated by statements today of leading mild reservation id senators. lis They said that Democrats have h- offered a definite proposal on article if ^en and other points in dispute. The article ten compromise suggesied by 2d the Democrats as acceptable the res-S. ervationists said, but, they added, id|the Democrats demanded far too id;much in return. They wanted the i1: j Lenroot reservation eliminated in re en | turn for an agreement to support by!the Lodge reservation on article ten rcjwith slight unimportant changes in he j phraseology. he J Republican senators declared they an | will not yield on the Lenroot resera.vation. They cannot agree to Amer^'tjican entrance into any combination of [where they claim this government | is in danger of being overwhelmingon i ly outvoted in vital matters, they in 'said. l?l he j Preached at Lonj Cane. is- The Rev. Jas. L. Martin, D. D. 'e_ preached at Upper Long Cane Pres!es byterian Churc.'' Sunday morning, of The service was attended by a risj large crowd. The Rev. Mr. Beckett, ld- Glenn Springs will preach at Upper ir_ Long Cane Church next Sunday. >le posed highway. Winchester has the ialj honor of being the first place in the he I state, in which Washington and Lee ad (after whom the highway is named) he lived, the good roads apostle will he speak. Iwivud x nttiviiici' traveib irom place to place in a wagon drawn by iel mules and sella curios, but does not ask for any financial assistance in vn any way, his propaganda for better of roads, and especially for the in- Washington and Lee Highway, being iat a patriotic lifework for him. ir- He points out that the establishhe ment of this great transcontinental ;n- highway will be about the biggest w drawing to the section through which /a, it will pass that could be imagined, ill At many places where he has stopV pod, bands of music have greeted the nir visitor, he savs. anH lmw pmn"la if., i have always been present lo see the en unique traveling outfit and its driver. Hundreds of newspapers have of carried lengthy accounts cf Col. ys Thatcher's visit to their communities n- and he expects a large crowd to be to here to hear him on Saturday, July o-112th, PLAN CORPORATION TO COMPRESS AND WAREHOUSE COTTON ?_ , Washington, Jan. 1.?Announce^ ment is made here that plans are practically completed for the formation of a large corporation to coniKino anH a lnrtrp nnrt.ion of the cotton jcgmpressing and warehousing facilities of the southern j states and to establish new warej houses. Several Georgia coiton financiers are listed as supporters of the plan. Rufus R. Wilson,- secre-j tary of the National Association of cotton manufacturers and secretary of the world cotton conference, made the announcement. At the recent New Orleans meeting it was declared that additional: warehouse facilities were a para-! mount necessity in handling of the j cotton crop. Southern and eastern cotton growers, spinners, producers and bankers are enlisted in the undertaking according to Mr. Wilson,land exnerts are now conducting a ?" - # I survey of the whole field of warehousing and compression of cotton and taking options on many compresses and ware houses. It has long been well known in cotton industry," says Mr. Wilson, j "that sufficient facilities already ex-, ist to house most of the cotton of-) fered for storage. However, the lo-; cations of these warehouses in such that they do not adequately serve, the storage needs of the producers, i I merchants and spinners. They arej located with respect to distribution so as to best serve the needs of the 1 trade. I Millions Lost Yearly j Fcr this reason much cotton that ought to be stored is now kept in i open lots, streets and on platforms,! with the result that each year's crop1 suffers millions of dollars worth ofl !loss from "coun'.ry damage," manyj of the existing ware houses are so| jpoorly constructed and carelessly operated that insurance rates for cotton stored in them are abnormally i high and receipts for stored stocks are, in many cases, unsatisfactory collateral for bank loans. i "Many southern bankers declare 'they would-/ rather loan money on J cotton than on real estate," says Mr. j Wilson, "but the trouble has been, and still is, with the character of the warehouze receipts as evidence of the cotton's safety, ownership, weight and delivcrability. "Fully conversant with these conditions, and the need for improving them both in the interest of growers and spinners, a group of men con! corned from various angles with the j cot'on industry are organizing a corjpora'ion fcr the purpose of standjardizing the warehouses in both the icouth and the nor'.h." ! The compress plants to be taken lover by the new organization, Mr. Wilson announce^ are these of the : Atlantic compress company, with twelve plants in Florida, Georgia and 1 Alabama, those of the Newburger , jColton company, with twenty-six Inlnnfo in A j vU in mnaaoas, JL tilineSSCC, 1V11Ssissippi and Louisiana, and those of the St. Louis compress company, controlled by the Lesser-Goldman interests, chiefly in Arkansas and Missouri. Ten scattered presses will be taken over. Special attention will be paid by jthe company to the compress and | storage facilities at big concentration nftinfc 15W XT?*-11- ' ,,v...va urwc jiviiuis, onarieston, (Savannah, Atlanta, Mobile, Houston, St. Louis and Memphis, and t^ supplying them with increased and standardized service. In addition, arrangements have been made to take over a large number of warehouses scattered throughout the cotton belt, and to erect additional ones s both in the south and the east. De|tailed anncunccment of these will be !madc shortly. Seeing ?he Sights. Mr. R. H. Kay returned from the Northern markets Friday and left on Tonday for his future home in Honea Path. While north he saw much high priced clothing, saw a victim of the poi?on liquors and heard that Wood will be the next president. JVIcNARY SUGAR BILL, CONTiNJ.NG BOARD, IS SIGNED CY PRESIDENT i Washington, Jan. 1.?President j Wil on has signed the McNnry- bill continuing the United S'ates sugar equalizing beard through 120. It j was announced today a! the White House that his signature had .been at tached before midnight last ni^ht. Secreary Tumul'y, in making the: announcement, issued this state-1 ment: "The president has signed the su-l gar control bill. The bill confers dis-j cretion on the president in the mat-i ter of purchasing sugar from Cuba, j It is doubtful whether it will be pra*xicable or wise for the president] to exercise the power conferred, so' far as the purchase and distribution' of sugar are concerned." Some of the Cuban sugar has al-j ready been purchased and there isi no central control over sugar in Cuba j as there was last year, and it might! therefore be impossible for the gov-1 ernment now to step in and purchase | the sugar" without increasing the! price to the consumer. The bill, j however, continues the licensing power also and this power may be used to assist in controlling the profiteering amond distributors. Much Cuban sugar is coming in now and! the indications are that prices have reached their peak and that there will be a tendency for prices to fall in the next few weeks. I The Passing of a Land Mark. 1 The members of the Book Club' who read with so much pleasure the i story of "The Woman Rice Planter" by "Patherice Pennington" will hear with regret that the old Colonial Mansion known in the book as Casibianca, was destroyed by fire last week. In real life the plantation and the house were known as "White Hous?*" and were the ancestral property of 'Mrs. Elizabeth W. Pringle, a daughter of Gov. Alston. The house was j situated on the Pee Dee River, ten I miles from .Georgetown, and contained many family relics, statuary, jold furni:ure and valuable books. I school Kesumes Work. i ?? . . The Abbeville High and Graded j Schools resumed work after the j Christmas holidays Monday, a full quota of teachers being present. One ! new tsacher, Miss Margaret Spratt, ;Fort Mill, has been secured to take {the p^ace of Mrs. Ruth McLane Todd, j at the Mill School. TWO SMALL FIRES. There were two .small fires Monday, one occurring Saturday mornling in the Harrisburg section and I caused some damage. The scoond occurred at the City Garage, some gasoline catching on fire. No damage iwas done. | BAPTIST CHURCH TO CELEBRATE REMOVAL OF DEBT BY SUPPER The Baptist church has paid off all the debt on the house of worship, and in celebration of the fact j expects to have a social gathering [Thursday night, when the mortgage* j will be exhibited, properly marked l "settled". The women cf the church |will serve a supper to the men, and several brief talks will be made by members of the chux*ch. The Rev. C. jE. Burts of Columbia, general secretary for South Carolina Baptists, !will be the principal speaker. Doctor .Bur's i3 a native of this county and is a brother of our Sheriff, and |quite as big n man. , Undergoes Operation. Tim TV.0V,,r -fl.ior. -le of "\T-o T TVT Anderson will he scrry to learn it. was neccssary fcr her to undergo an operatino at Pryor's Hospital Saturday .The late t report from Mrs. Anderson's bedside was favorable and it is thought that her recovery will be rapid. LOANS TO ALLIES DY GOVERNMENT O'JT OF QJESTiO: e Washington, 'Jan. 2.?Loans bj the government of the United States to England or France are out o.' he question. Publication of a storj tu tile cJ.its*;u tnat y iuuuiii went home with the pledge of th Wilson administration for a $1 -.00 000,000 loan have revived the sub ject of international finance an ! giy en the treasury department an- o~' pcrtunity to place its viewi un equivocally; ^before the public. Her is the way one of the as^istanJ secretaries of the treasury phrase it: "If England really wanted $13. 000,000,000 in credits in the Uni'o States, she could not spend thai amount in five years. If she wante that "sum,^ the treasury certainlj would not agree to recommend sue! a loan to congress. If the tr?as'ir} did recommend it, congress certainlj would ont agree to it. And if con gress did agree, the money could no1 be raised from the people of th( United States, that's all there is tc it." Part of Anti-League Campaign The purpose of the story is considered here to be interwoven wit! the campaign against'the League oJ Nations. Opponents of the treatj have sought to make it appear thai the United States is yielding every thing and giving away to Europ< and particularly Great Britain. Foj instance in the last two weeks mucl discontent has been aroused in quar t.er3 where anything anti-British finds a favorable reception, in th( matter of the big German ship: which were ordered returned to Eng land. I As a matter of the fact the solemr I words of the United States wa: 'pledged to give those ships back t( I TilncrlnnrI l'mmorlintolTr Q-ftor rmr tooi department got through trans porting troops to America. The fac Chat England was delaying the re turn of some ships belonging t< America was the fur''"mental rea son for the shipping brard's in-1' nation to recommend the return o the big German liners, but Presiden Wilson tcok the position that Ameri j?a wculd keep her nlelges. r"r*n * ; less of the outcome or merits of th< ccntrovcriy which had separatel: arisen over other shins. Indeed thi United S'ales confidently expect England to adjust that question ii due time. Adding To His Charms. The people of Spartanburg an [ Greenville are "all het up" over th I "Greer area," the question bein j whether a part of Spartanburg count is the Greer section shall go int Greenville County. The people ar having a wsek of speech-making an | we learn from the newspapers tha one of the impassioned orators i Col. Tom Marchant, who is prett well known around Abbeville. Politi cal speaking is an addition to hi other accomplishments. Dr. J. S. Moffatt The Rev. J. S. Moffatt, D. D. j President of Erskine College, preach j ed at the Presbyterian Churcl jSunday morning. The subject of hi: sermon was "The Revival", and wa: enjoyed by a large audience. After services Dr. Moffatt anc Dr. Gray, Secretary of Home Mis sions of the Baptist Church, \ver< guests nt dii * r of Mr. and Mrs. W ID. Barksd^le. From Central America. i I j Mr. Wnrrn Smith has boon in Ab I beville for thp past several days vis j iting Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Seal and hi j "ittle daughter, Miss Orric Smith. H 1 'eft Monday afternoon for Los An : geles, Cal., where he will be marriei j <o Miss Fredrica Otis, after which h will return to Central America, when ne 15 making his way la the worid. Friends in Abbeville wish him grea happiness in his marriage. STRIKES DF LABOR ! DURING PAST YEAR. Jfil "Many Sta'es Pass V-'arVT'inftil'i Compcns*t:on Laws an * - -'i Wage Scale Acts?Cot^t Decis- ' : ions Have Been C^rera?!;* v Favorable to Labor^-43 States Pass Laws. ? New York, Jan. 3.?Laws enacted " : '' luring 1919 to protect the lives and ' j ' ealth of labor, contribute largely to he constructive movement, supported -*' ,:'a by both emploji^rs ana employes, to. help solve the problem of industrial t unrest by applying the legislative i method as a matter not 01 settlement. r but of sound economics. . <r i Court decisions of the past year, r oo, were generally favoiable to pyor tective legislation for labor. The trend in the United States is t trikingly toward a comprehensive - application of the principle of social m > nsuance, particularly compulsory - A workmen's compensation, according to a survey just made by the Ameri . can association for labor legislationv - . . o i of all labor laws enacted last year f by congress and by the 43 states and \ j j territories that held regular and the t 20-odd that held special legislative . j sessions. * '.:J| cj Death of Mr. Z. Brown Nance. 1 : ti News was received* in Abbeville / I -< % 11 last week of the death of Mr. Z. JI Brown Nance, who was run over and 3 j instantly killed by an automibile at -jhis home in Spartanburg. "K Mr. Nance was the only son of i Judge R. Y. H. Nance, of Anderson s s County and- was reared in the Cars)jwell Institute, section. In his youth r! he was a student at Carswell Insti_ I tute, a school of high standing in t those days, and he was one of the . brightest students at the Institute. 3 He was a classmate of J. S. Stark, of . Abbeville and S. J. Wakefield, of Antreville, and so many others in f hat community, who hear with deep z\ regret of his untimely death. . [ Mr. Nance joined the church during the Rev. Mr. Carswell's pastorah P-at the Cress Roads church now y 'cnown as Starr. e Mr. Nance leaves a wife and five J children three sons an;1 two daughri! or.-, who have the sympathy c f a j wide circle of friends in thoir sorrow! Funeral services were hell "t the home of his daughter, Mrs. George . IDcarman, and were conducted by his ^as'or Rev. Mr. Ball. ^ Mrs. W. A. O'Bryant, of Abbeville, a sister of Mr. Nance and she at? ended his funeral. Her friends in y Vbbeville grieve with her in the loss 0 of her brother, e r* Master'# Sale?it " . 8 The following sales were made on y the Master: >" ? l" One house and lot in Abbeville In ' the case of E. F. Wilson vs. Mary j Dawson, bought by plaintiff for $225. In the case of Henry J. Stockton vs Lizzie Smith et al, 106 acres were sold to D. H .Hill, W. A. Calvert and , J. M. Nickles. -j Judge-Hollingsworth sold a lot in ljtown belonging to Dr. Baker to W. 3 j V. Stevenson for $775. sj Sympathy For Mr. BrUtow.i\ J Mr3. Flora B. McCutcheon died at J the home of her daughter, Mrs. B. 0. ! Bristow in Darlington, and was bu| ried at Lake City on January 2nd. ! Mrs. McCutcheon was the grandj mother of Mr. Otto Bristow. \ COTTON MARKET. K " v V 5 V January 5. 1920. V e V Snot Cotton <100. V V i V January 38.40 V e \ March 36.83 V e V May S5.46 V t S. July 33.75 V t V October 30.95 V !