The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, February 09, 1920, Image 8
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OLD SCENES AND FACES
OF LONG AGO RECALLED
(Continued from Page One)
for several years, and there is in another
part of the town the high
school. And the schools now have
t: .
several teachers. The beautiful woodft
land which stood in the rear of the
school building has given way to the
march of population, and there are
now rows of new and modern homes
all along new streets that have been
opened in the days that have come
since then. But the grounds have a
familiar look and the old Burt home
sftill stands just across the street in
the apex of the triangle. This is the
house in which it is said that Jeffer!son
Davis held his last cabinet meeting.
But the main street in front of
the school buildng is being paved
with cement and bithulithic and this
adds not only to the comfort of the
people who travel this way but also
to the beauty of the surroundings.
I Just a short way on the same
street where once stood the Presbyterian
church now stands a magnificent
structure which I was told was
v the BaDtist church, and the Presby
Iterians built on the other corner of
the same lot after their building was
destroyed by fire when the elegant
home of Justice McGowan was de^
stroyed. In the days of which I am
writing the Baptists had a mission at
this place and a small brick church
around the corner. The Methodist
have erected a new building but it
and the parsonage are at the same
\i place.
I called to see Chief Justice Gary
and found him in his study among
law books writing . opinions. Judge
Gary is interested in the human side
of the law and the ethics of the profession
and has done much toward
(standardizing the ethics of the bar
' and in rendering his decisions endeavors
to study carefully ine case ir
hand and all the circumstances anc
to be guided by what is right and
just between man and man rathei
than the technical precedents whicl
may be found in decisions which
were rendered by learned judges ol
another generation and amid differ
eijt conditions. He hc3 also deliverec
many addresses which have beer
quoted very largely in this and foreign
lands, and they are authority or
!many live subjects because when he
undertakes to make an address he
studies the subject thoroughly and
speaks from the record. One of his
, addresses has been printed in the
law reports by requests of the bar,
something that is without precedent
in the State. When I was in? Abbeville
Judge Gary was a young lawyer
having but recently been admitted
to the bar and opened up an
office in this good old town.
' ' The bar is entirely a new bar at
this time, both in person and name.
In those days it was Parker and McGowan
and Perrin and Cothran and
then McGowan and Parker and then
Cothran and Perrin and so on, but
now there is not one of the name at
the bar. Mr. William P. Greene, who
also so ably edits The Press and Banner,
has possibly the largest practice
at the bap. at present. The s^me is
true of the county officers. In those
days Judge Fuller Lyon was probate
judge, Major Zeagler was olerk of
court, Mr. DuPree was sheriff and
Mr. Perrin was treasurer and Mr.
KpV Gibert school, commissioner and- I
think Mr. Hill was auditor. I remember
Mr. Gibert because I had to stand
an examination to get a certificate to
teach. Jack Perrin is now clerk of
court. Jac'.: went to school to me and
he was a bright boy and they tell me
he is the nost popular man in the
county. Dick Sondley is the auditor,
and you know he is one of our Newberry
men. I do not recall the other
county officers. They have built a
' new court house and a fine city hall
| in which is a large opera house, but
i i nave not seen any court house that
j is better than the one at Newberry
I for the same money, and as for the
j jail we have the finest in the state.
' I spent a very pleasant half hour
[ with Dr. J. L. Martin. When I was
' in Abbeville he was the pastor of
ithe Presbyterian church. He says
that he had to retire from the active
ministry because of his health, but
that he must preach and that from
the waist up he is stronger and more
vigorous than ever in his life, though
he told me he was 82 years old some
time during the first of the present
month. He has made a special study
of Revelations and the Apocalypse
and showed me two sermon?, from
texts from these books that he had'|?
prepared during the week that I was I g
there. He doesn't talk like a manjlj
who was weak in any particular andjg
certainly mentally he is as vigorous |j
J as any one who has not half as many g
years behind him as Dr. Martin. Ijfj
ihad not seen him in many years. He jj
iwas probably instrumental in my go-|?|
jing to Abbeville to teach, having g
j known of some of the name by the jj
marriage of his sister to Mr. Johnijj
iPeaster, formerly of thid county, ?f
| whose sister married James H. Aull. jg
I have a Bible now which was the gj
gift of the two children of Dr. Mar- jg
j tin, a boy and a girl, the girl being a H
pupil of mine. The gift came on the 1
14th of February, 1881, and on the 1
: fly leaf written by Dr. Martin are 3
j the Words: "See Ruth 1: 16 and 17." J
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Another family that made a home EE
'for me was the family of Mr. J. D.11
Chalmers. Mrs. Chalmers was one of ! =
'the best women I ever knew. They i 1
:would not board me, but let me have 1
a room at their house, and rarely a ?
day passed that good Mother Chal- 1
! mers failed to have some dainty aisn j =j
for me when I came in in the even-: g
ing. I will never forget these good 1
(people. They had two daughters andji
one son. The daughters died several |
years ago and the son, James Chal- 1
| mers, died only a short time ago, be- j i
jing treasurer of Abbeville county at-i
,'the time of his death. The home injl
.'which they lived has passed into,j
| other hands and a new and more!|
elaborate mansion now stands on the 1
!spot,
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At the time of which I write Gen. |
Hemphill was the editor of the Abbe- |
. ville Medium and Mr. Hugh Wilson ?
, of the Press and1 Banner ,the same j
. two papers which are now published I
. jin the town. Mr. William P. Greene |
[ is the editor and proprietor of the j
( Press and Banner and his wife is the |
. daughter of Gen. Hemphill. Mr. E. C. |
, noixon is tne editor ana proprietor g
['of the Medium. The first newspaper ?
I iwork I ever did was on the Medium |
. when Gen. Hemphill went away on a |
( trip of a couple of weeks, he asked ?
J me to write the editorials and other ?
.{matters for the paper. I remember 1
that during the time Judge Thomas j
.jThompson a citizen of Abbeville and |
[ an eminent jurist and a circuit judge |
'at th* time died, and one of the first I
" ? ' ss
II things that I had to do was write a |
([sketch of his life for the Medium. ?
/Judge James S. Cothran who was j
I then the solictor of the circuit sue- |
iceeded Judge Thompson on the j
bench by appointment of the govern- |
lor.
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Both the Abbeville papers have I
linotype machines of course, and the |
i Press and Banner has two, and the I
reason for mentioning in this connec- g
:tion is to say that the Press and Ban- I
jner is using the electric pot and I |
[was told that it bought current at 2 1
11-2 cents the kilowat hour, and here =
jit costs us 8 cents, though Mr. Wal- 1
lace tells me that he pays only 6 ^
I cents, it may be on account of using
I more of the curent than The Herald
{and News, but the bill for the current
month for The Herald and
;News is 8 cents, but even at 6 cents Sl
the question that we want to ask is t]
iwhy the difference even between 6 n
jand 2 1-2 cents. Can not the commis- a
i sioMPTB nf nnWio r* AT,?.1 tl
, V* "Ui XVo All llCWUCUy
jsell the "juice" at the same rate that ?
lit is sold in Abbeville. Some one says v
jthat Abbeville has a special contract ^
,and that ony one other town has as ^
! cheap a rate. I believe that town is
I Greenwood. Certainly there should ^
not be such a great difference. There ^
Jshould be a reason. I notice that ef- a
I forts are to be made to get a cheap- f'
jer rate in Newberry so that the S
j "juice" may be used for cooking and
j heating. I hope the effort may be tl
'successful. e
e
j And then I want Mayor Blease ^
and his council to take a party of the 0
! Newberry business men over to this ^
little town when the street paving is
completed and let them see what a
^sort of streets are being builded, and
I see the delegation in the legisla- ,
Iture is going to let the people of the
jcounty vote on issuing $600,000 in ^
! bonds for road building. In recent
ijyears two counties have been cut off ^
from Abbeville, Greenwood and Mci
Cormick, but the old county is still ^
alive and moving forward.
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Maybe I should not have written v
, all of this about another county, and
L maybe it will not interest the readers t
of The Herald and News, but I just c
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couian t neip it ana here it is. If 11
you do not care to read it why just ^
pass it up. P
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ON THE ROAD QUESTION.
Editor Press and Banner:?It
?ems that the Good Roads Bill in:oduced
by Senator Moore is beaming
to put the people to thinking. I
m slow to think that a majority of
le voters of Abbeville County are
oing to vote for the bond issue. They
oted against it before more than
iree to one. I don't want to De unerstood
as being against good roads
or I am a road man myself. I have
een working my own roads to make
hem good for more than forty years
r.d I am on the job now, and I am
or having the best plan for providing
ood roads.
I do not claim to be a Solomon, neiher
do I claim to know more than
verybody" else, but with my experince
with road work, I am satisfied
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nat six nunarea tnousana aouars,
ven if well expended, will never
uild more than one-half the roads to
he different points from Abbeville
s outlined in the bill of Senator
loore. When every dollar of the
ond issue is collected and spent, and
ot more than half the roads built,
he people of Abbeville County will
nd themselves like a poor man at a
rolic, wanting to dance but with
othing to pay the fiddler. They will
e wanting the highways finished and
rill have no money to pay for the
rork.
I still contend that if the legisla11
va nr/Mil/J r\oPB o lonr wiioa 4-V? n
uic wuuiu pass a law iv xaioc tiic ^
ommutation tax to two dollars and,
npose a small tax on property, and
f this additional money was spent,
roperly on the roads, widening the'
arrow places, and grading the worst
lot Only)
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places, all the people, young and old for c
would get some benefit for the money (told
spent. If the people vote the bond jury
issue they will find that the money j ^
will all be spent at once, the roads SUPP
will soon wash away and we will j to 171
leave a big debt to be paid by an-i out i
other generation. j you
Those who are spared long enough rule
will find out that there will be many fcre
men who will vote for bonds to build ^
the proposed roads that will hear
Gabriel's horn a long time before
they hear that the roads are finished.'^
If blind Bartemus were back here he
could see that there is something be-j
hind this good roads scare besides
good roads. ^
There was a man once who was sailo:
prosecuted for stealing a cow. He Worl
was taken up to the Court House entrj
charged with the crime. The evi- Shos
dence in the case was plain and posi- omin
tive that he did steal the cow and Se
take her home and eat her. When folio
court came on and this defendant: of tl:
was to be tried it was a hard matter ably
for him to get a lawyer to take hisorent
s> o a a Pir in oie+on na V? a finollv nor* I f-ViP T
suaded a young lawyer to take hisj tion
case, and telling him that he would tion
be sure to win, the young lawyer de- Piatt
cided to take the case. When the Th
case came up the young lawyer made open<
the best defense he could, the prose- Marc
cuting attorney being an able man, Marc
then made a tremendous speech for Ev
the prosecution, the jury retired and woul<
in a few minutes came back and re-.bond
turned a verdict of not guilty. Thej servi<
prosecuting attorney knew that there per c
was something wrong, and told the' day
rlo+'otif)ant if Vio wnnlrl toll him what! rrnhli
it was, he would pay the lawyer's feeJwouU
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iefending him. The defendant FIFTY
him that the foreman of that^
had had some of that beef for^
er the night before. It seems Sava
e that there is somebody looking. n*?er?
\ ers bac
tor some beef in this case. Boys, coacheE
had better take Davy Crockett's ment a:
to "Be sure you are right" be- when S
you cast your vote "then go ^rom ^
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ERVICE MEN GET The
PRIOR Rir.HT TO NftDTH
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PLATTE-SHOSHONE LAND ?7
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ashington, Feb. 7.?Soldiers, '^pon r
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rs and marines who served in the
!d War, will have prior rights of, aS^' ^
r on the vast North Platte and ?
hone irrigation projects in ^
g, to be opened next month.
cretary Lane announced tonight.
wing passage by Congress today
... , ,. . . , would 1
le joint resolution giving honor-,
discharged service men a pref-!
:e right in obtaining lands under Jurec* *
lomestead act, that first applies- noon ai
of the provisions of the resolu- ^oca' '1C
would be applied to the North A pi
e and Shoshone projects. I follow*
e North Platte tract will be Mrs.
ed to entry by ex-service men C; Mrs.
h 5 and the Shoshone project C.; Wil
h 13. thews, I
ery man serving in the war Chariot
d get a World War veteran Raleigh
worth $1 for every day of C.; I
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uc anu ucaiiiig mucicob at -x u-* i v.,
;ent. under a bill introduced to-, C.; Mrs
by Representative Osborne, Re-j C.
can of California. The issue 2.; R.
1 be limited to $1,500,000. C.
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JSERVATIVE
INJURED IN
TRAIN SMASH-UP
nnah, Ga., Feb. 7.?Fifty pasi
were injured, scores of othlly
shaken up, four passenger
; plunged down an embanknd
four others were derailed,
ieaboard Air Line train No. 3,
ew York to Jacksonville, was
d about nineteen miles south
annah at 9:30 o'clock this
Scause
of the wreck has not
;n learned. The smashup ocabout
four miles south of
tation, near a small trestle.
onmvino* fho nou/c r\-f f
local officials of the Seaboard
made up a relief train and
to the scene with a number
sicians aboard. Although offithe
railroad estimated that
ifty persons received injuries,
d not believe any fatalities
esult.
relief train bearing the ineturned
to the city this afterid
a few were removed to
>spitals.
rt officiallist of the lniured
E. P. Truedale, Kershaw, S.
W. . V. Oliver, Matthews, S.
liam Thomas Oliver, Mat3.
C.; Mrs. E. R. Daughter,
te, N. C.; C. D. Tucker,
, N. C.; W. F. Fant, Hamlet,
I. H. Johnson, Charlotte, N.
. R. H. Johnson, Charlotte, N.
i. J. A. Kell, Hendersonville,
F. S. Matthews, Rock Hill, S.
B. Quarterman, Limerick, S.