Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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? AN ADDITIONAL WORD. !i i ? t In that long and rather discon- c nected article which I wrote about Abbevile of the lone: ago, there were ^ one or two things which I intended U to mention, but overlooked in trying'( to shorten the story somewhat. And am going to mention them now. !r I met on the street the Rev. L. J. jj * ii - T> 1 Bristow the Dastor 01 tne r>apusM I c church there. Now, of course, he is I too young to have lived in Abbeville! in the days of which I am writing. In I fact, when I first knew him he was!( simply an ordinary newspaper writer j on the News and Courier, but now he ' is the pastor of that handsome j? church and I believe it was built; ( while he was pastor. Well, what Ij am referring to him for in this con-'j nection is to say that he went around , with me to call on Mr. Tom C. Seal. ? Now, Mr. Seal is a Methodist, but I ? ! wanted to call on him because he is s living at the same place and in the'j same house where he lived when I!j lived in Abbeville, and one of his daughters was a pupil of mine. I was j glad to see Mr. Seal once more, and l I believe he was glad that I called, if | it was for only a little while. He is j looking young and says he feels good except that at times his legs kinder j give out. He is now retired from j business and has 82 summers behind j < him. it And then I wanted to say that I j c met Mr. J. A. Hill who was a pupil p of mine, and who is now prospering |s in business in Abbeville. I also met|i his son who is a cadet at the Bailey p Institute. I am going back to Abbe-.^ ville some of these days before so J long when I can spend a little more j time and see more of the good people j of the old town, and I am going toj, ask Col. Wiliam P. Greene to take| me down through that section thatj we drove when we went to McCor-j mick, at a time when he is not in so | great a hurry and when I will havei ||| more time. There are seme gcod|^ stories that may be written of this j section, and then I just love to gath-L er this local history. And there is j^ Is; much of it in this section that would! be of interest to the people of the J State. I And by the way, that reminds mel^ that Mr. Joseph H. Hunter called me|^ up the other evening , after having read about the sun dial to which I referred as being at the Pettigru ^ .home, to say that he had one that his t ^bther, Mr. Nathan A. Hunter, had ? k ? when he lived at the old home on the spot where Mr. Geo. W. Summer has builded his handsome home. I may have seen this in my boyhood, be- L cause that was my second home, but' ^ I do not recall it. Mr. Hunter says he ^ is going to bring the dial around for j. me to see, and I think when he does j that I will get him to let me put it up on my lot. There may be many a more of these sun dials in the state, but the only two that I have seen is / the one at Barnwell and the one at the Pettigru home. E. H. A. Newberry Herald and News. SUBSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC c SERVICE COMMISSION ACT t Columbia, Feb. 9.?A substitute * public service commission bill, to be e submitted to the judiciary committee ^ of the house of representatives, was p/' agreed upon at a conference in c (Columbia Saturday between at- t torneys representing the public utili- I ties and the chairman of the public s utilities commission. This compro- J mise measure will be submitted for ^ the consi'iraiior^of the house judici- i ary comr litoe this week. This will i effect Nc.-.h Carolina, Georgia and t South Carolina corporations opera-!' ting in the |c There are at present two public js utiliities bills before the house. both!< I in the hands of the judiciary commit-! tee. One war. introduced by P.opro- n sentacive Atkinson, of Spartanburg,'! the other by Representative Meares,!' of Fairfield. The Atkinson bill wash prepared by the utilities interests,!1 che Meares measure by William j( Banks, of Columbia, chairman of the i public service commission. The pur-i' pose of the conference in Columbia! Saturday was to reconcile the two ' fc- ' element?. i' -C~~4-.-i-i u:ii 5 i?I x ue it-c;cuitr ui uie uili prupusea oy *. the public service commission to > which the utilities objected was the proposition to allow the comnvssion to pass upon the validity of securi- j tie? to he -* hercr?t':r for -ml-lic utilities. !f - sugrgesteo at the Saturday conference that this be ineor^o'rte5 in a separate bill. The lew suggestion wil be submitted to H he judiciary committee for final M lisposition. The compromise bill would pro- g ride ior a commission ui wree mem-; ^ )ers "discreet and disinterested |j :itizens," to be appointed by the gov*- J ;rnor, each to give bond of $1,000. M The salary of the chairman would be, g p5,000, and that of each of the other |j nembers $2,500. The total appropri- gi ition for the expenses of the com- J nission would be ?30,000. The expense of the commission J vould be borne by the persons and jj :orporations subject to the jurisdic- m :ion of the commission, each in pro- M jortion of its gross revenue in the ( state, this taxation not to exceed one- jj juarter of one per cent a year. The commission would be vested, j| inder the proposed compromise bill, s vith "power and jurisdiction to J iupervise and regu'ate the rates and M * J" 11!- J 'I'l _ S service 01 every puDiic utility in mis g= itkte." Gas. electric., a^d street m ailway companies would come with- ?g n the scope of its authority. ; The commission would also be em-ig lowered to make investigation of un- 1 ised hydro-electric potentiality in g ;his state, with reference to its ?| !uture development, if practicable." g "The commission may," says the m )il further, "in its discretion estab- H 3 ish a standardized system of ac- j :ounts to be kept by the public utili- g ie3, b^bjcct to its jurisdiction." It is probable that the judiciary g[ ;ommittee will introduce a bill that ?? vill imbody its adoptions from the 3 ieveral bills before it, and a spirited M !ight over the measure is expected, fg This will probably come during the M veek. 1 ? n Some Remarks on Quarantining m Dr. Woods Hutchinson, a medical g 1 J? 3 luioivsui/j ui iiauiunai repute, was = luoted in the New York Sun of De- M :ember 18th, 1918, as replacing little ? eliance on "closing" measures. He ? .aid: "We closed theatres and busi- |g less houses because we did not know ?? vhat else to do. It was a new prob- || em, and frankly we scarcely knew jj low to meet it. As a matter of fact || ;here is no safer place for children jjj luring an epidemic of any kind than g "ight in School, provided it" is well m ventilated and modern to nurses and m jquipment." Dr. Royal S. Copeland, || iresident of th6 board of health in 3 \merica's largest city, the most con- I jested city, took every precaution a, m rear ago last fall; but there was one g ;hing he refused to do, close the M ;heatres, saying then as he says now: g 'If managers see that health rulings j? ire obeyed, one is as safe or safer in jj i large, well ventilated theatre as in ? i hospital* if for no other means than = ;hat there are more pathogenic germs S n a Vmcnitn 1 tVion in o mall sS .. ~ ..vv^/.vu. VMWit AM a TTCil g heatre." A late bulletin says time g las proved Dr. Copeland to-be entire- jj y right. "See how lightly New York g iscaped?how the biggest city was jj ilso the safest." IS I VPPROPRIATION BILL ^ IS NEARING COMPLETION F Columbia, Feb. 9.?The 1920 ap ropriation bill is rapidly nearing ompletion, according to members of ^ he ways and means committee of * he state senate before whom the natter of finances has been for sev- al :ral weeks. It is stated that the bill ^ ril be introduced this week. ^ Members of tVlP WflVS nnrl r?oaric Ll :ommittee state that the appropria- ^ ion bill will conform largely to the ^ >udget, submitted early in the ses- 1tion by the state budget commission, tl [t is stated also that the total tax levy w vil not likely be materially changed tl :rom the present levy. However, C( nembers of the committee also state hat the matter of the final total of c< ippropriations and of the tax levy :annot be predicted, as slight cuts in some places and slight increases in >thers will effect these final figures. ^ Members of the committee state j ;hat the hard knots in the bill have argely been disposed of and the j :ommittee wil get the bill into final . 1 SJ form quickly. iHie committee an"i^, nounced Thursdav that all hearings on the matter of finances for the ^ year had been disposed of and there would be no further hearings. There has been considerable dis- u cussion of the budget plan. Members ^ of the legislature state that the budpet commission is unnecessary. On the other hand others take the position that the commission arrnninlixh- 11 ed a great deal in the matter of preparing a foundation for the appro- a priation of state funds. . . 1 Engraved Cards and Invitations? , T'.v I'ress and Banner Co. ! $ IWeNc i BU I | We beli terested in you. Come I We mvi I templating 1 tions or est; f sign of this of the com dividual de ' " WE SOI ! con I G. A.. J STRONO RENCH HONOR CERTIFICATES. mari its a to a< Special exercises on Washington's recri irthday will mark the distribution of posts rench honor certificates to the next Corp : kin of American soldiers, sailors mail< id marines who lost their lives in le great war. Franklin d'Olier, na- 1 onal commander of the American END egion, has made arrangements with le adjutant general of the army for ie distribution of approximately! "I 18,409 certificates through posts of ton r ie Legion in all cities and towns said here posts have been organized. Toj"Thi! lose living in outlying sections the when irtificates will be mailed. ifor c The certificates for relatives of de- * 5ased soldiers who reside in foreign ., t as it juntries will be presented through : ^ ie military attaches of the allied suntries while those for Porto Rico>'them '**?-i~ ?J lastta, lViailllil auu n?yrau w in M,s|jng J istributed under the .direction of the j ;veral department commanders of p]y l le American Legion. The certificate wort; hows a group figure from the ceno- mers iph in the Avenue des Champs Ely- fact ?es, Paris. In the scroll above are i le dates "1914-1919." Above the cornt roup is a quotation from Victor ^ear [ugo, which freely translated roads: devis The people should come to pray at d0wr he graves of those who died for their, "i ountrv." The inscription reads: "To siitrh he memory of ... of the Un-'semi :ed States of America, who died for rapir ;berty during the great war, the hom-'resei ge of France" and the engraved sig- was lature of the President of the French Sept tepublic, Raymond Poincare. ing 1 The honor roll is made up of 107,- pdle '52 soldiers, 6,000 sailors and 3,657 their itOnlvP V T SHOW 11 eve in co-oper your success. 5 in and "talk V te the consider a change in th ablishing new < bank is to me mumty as well positor. iriT vni ?a i v> ix i \y v NTYSAVII Neuffer, Pres SAFE nes. The Marine Corps received the wide i llotment of testimonials too late of raw co idress and send them to district ton goods liting offices for delivery to local cotton mil i for presentation and all Marine as there ii s testimonials accordingly will be jd directly to the next of kin. MESSAG1 OF STALMATE IN COTTON MARKET Grand ] look for the stalmate in the cot-|governmei narket to break in a few days," j Truman I Commissioner Harris Thursday, j touch wit! 5 deadlock can not last always connectioi i there is the greatest demand 18 for a i otton that there has ever been senate, e history of the staple. My fear The pre it when cotton goes to 40 cents, gram cop; must, there are many farmers which is 1 will be wiling to let loose their co-defendi ngs. This would be disastrous to spiring to selvse and to the cotton grow- state laws ndustry. expenditu 'or, according to the laws of sup- The tel md demand cotton today is j Smith, mt h 50 cents a pound, and the far-itate in D< would be getting is but for the .this case, there is now going on one of,Command aiggest and most exasperating (third navj tines to depress the price and the New York speculators are exerting every "Misinf ;e to force the price of cotton j the date c i. | Should ha "he range of futures has been cular wor t. in the last few days . except postage a -occasionally. The mills are penses wi lly and surely grinding up the primary, ve stocks laid in when cotton j In getti relatively cheap ast August and court rec< ember, but the day is surely com - torney G( kvhen the mills will be com-,forged th rl to buy short or shut down! proving a 1 mills. And any one who knows sent Sen 1 'av Inbi UJ JLlltvJ MTEREST ation. We . We want t it over" with ration of thos leir Banking c/ accounts. T et the requin as to serve 1 JR BUSII^ 4GS BANI R. E. Cox, Cashier CONS margin between the prices tended th tton and the price of cot-ing to do will never think that the his behalf lis would shut down as long senatorshi 5 a bale of spinnable cotton. Newark E SHOWS ber of inv NEWBERRY WAS ly decreaj IN CONSPIRACY reports, ithreatenec 1 urrifore' /?i Rapids, Mich., Feb. 9.?The , , ' . len's annc nt today established that , I. Newberry was kept in * h the expenditure details in .. .... . . tions at n 1 with his campaign in 19 seat in the United States >of in the form of a tele- ||jl|flll jr was given to the jury |^||||i|| trying the senator and 122 tfjpyPra ants, all charged with conviolate the federal and \ i which limit the campaign | res of a senatorial aspirant. I eerram was sent by Fred P. j ' : mdger of the Newberry es-! itriot and a defendant in jlp^|||| It was addressed to Lieut. er Truman H. Newberry, id district, 260 Broadway,, It read: ormed you this morning if close of regular expenses. ive said August 27th. Cirk, advertising, clerical help, n all regular overhead ex 11 naturally continue until | t~~ Have written." . I ,7: ing this message into the} The jrds Special Assistant At- ji:-; hr< ?neral Frank C. Dailev has i in ' e strongest link thus fr.r in i conspiracy. Up to the pre-' r?:i. ator Newberry, has conI rest I IS I '! u8, i i e con- I | n l I 1 i\eia~ | he de- 1 | *ments | * the in- ? 1 | 39 JESjS' I j [ >ERVATIVE at he, personally, had nothwith the money paid out in during the battle for the P, N. J., Feb. 6.?The num/luenza cases here is greatsed, according to Friday's but local physicians are 1 with an epidemic of t ramp following Mayor Gilmncement that he has arith twenty-eight druggists liskey on doctor's prescripot more than $1.50 a pint. j HIT A. HOLLAND, Greenwood Piano Man. rest dealer in musical Instru* Vcstern Sourti Carolina. Sella c-nTa/er pianos, organs and lai-iiinc. Rc-tvrcncf: G"?ea tlv o'le- 1 1 P-p.Bk !i: Cre:u.vo"d Qv:z.~?