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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class matter at post office in ADDevnie, o. Terms of Subscription: One year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 FftlDAY, JUNE 11, 1920 THE HOUSING PROBLEM ^ ' ' There are not enough houses in Abbeville. People cannot come here to make their homes unless they build in advance of their coming. This they will not do. The growth o the city is being retarded because of the fact that no t houaes are being built here. "Unfortunately we have no conterns here engaged in the building business. We have two lumber yards which are stocked with building materials, but they do not engage in the building business. For that reason it is exceedingly difficult to get a house built when once a person has determined to build, and it is exceedingly expensive. Chambers of Commerce and Development Boards will not solve the problem which is before us for solution. The best solution which has hoon ofFprpH the nroblem comes from Col. T. G. White, one of the foremost of the business men of the city. He proposes that as large a number of men as will go into the enterprise form a home building corporation and engage in the construction of homes for sale. Such a company, he says, (and we believe he knows what he is talking abeut) can buy lumber at wholesale prices and other building materials floe same way, and houses may be built in Abbeville and sold to tb?se seeking homes at prices much l*wer than the same bouses may be built for by private " parties, and at the same time with a fair profit to investors. The plan appeals to us as being workable and very advisable for adoption. No better man could head the movement than Mr. White himHis interest would assure en terprise and business methods in the handling of the corporation, as well as the speedy building of homes, now very much in demand. The Press and Banner offers to take stock in the enterprise and we believe that fifty thousand dollai-s can be raised within an hour on the public square to put the proposition across. We said a few days ago that the Chamber of Commerce would die unless there was work for it to do. Here is work. Let tlie officers name a subscription committee for this pro posed corporation ana let tnem get busy. More houses mean more people for Abbeville, more people mean more business, more, business means more profits, and more profifits are what we are after. We can build ten houses" In the next ninety days if we will get busy and everyone of them can be sold. The Building and Loan Associations are anxious to handle loans on property of this kind where a reasonable cash payment is made, and any person can borrow enough money these days to make the cash payment. DRIVE FOR BETTER SCHOOLS The Anderson Daily Mail, in a recent issue says: "A very interesting and enthusiastic meeting was held at Long Branch school house last night. The main object of the meeting was to discu96 the financial side of school matters. The community was well represented and a general air of interest prevailed. Supt. Goodgion went into the details of the manner and extent to which a special levy will effect the average property holder. After his talk a petition to order an election was circulated and practically all the electors present signed. "Mr. Goodgion states that out of the vast number of elections that p | have been held this spring through | j the county, not a one has failed to I carry. Thirteen elections have already been held, ten have been ord-/ ! erecf and quite a number of petitions^ ; are now in circulation." ! This is what we have been telling you. The people of Abbeville County j are behind and they are getting fur-, ther behind. Along the highways in. Anderson County, in Greenwood! County, and in nearly every other, j county in the state, you see modern j, J school buildings, newly built, newly i painted, looking fit for school work,!' j and an index to the forethought of. < the people in those counties. In Abbeville County, here and there, you' see a one room building, some of, them suggesting something of mod j ern ideas, and most of tTiem lndica-^, 1 tive of the progress, or want of pro-'j i' gress, in school matters of thirty ' years ago. It is time for us to wake up. We/1 j will never build good communities ! ' and make the people of the county a better people until we begin to vote taxes, build better schools, and employ more and better teachers. 1 The time is ripe for the work , which we suggested in our last is-J-( 'sue. Other counties have joined the ] army of progress. But we stand still.;' We believe that Major Fulp and < - * jlv." -lT l' i 1 Prof. Long can start uometmng, mat ' is, if somebody will open the meeting ' 1 by making a few remarks. Are the 1 | people of Abbeville County interesti j | ; ed in schools? Will somebody speak ( 1 for his or her community in this : matter? Do the people want a cam-j paign for better schools in the coun-J ty? If they do let them ask for the services of the gentlemen we have' i named or for the seryices of others.1' ! I ? , These men do not want to press their I services upon an unwilling people.' j < But they stand ready to serve, we are assured . , ! What say the people? j i JAMES CALVIN COMMENTS J, | h I But we must say that when Dean j, Mason Dupre was growing up in! ( Abbeville and Professor Clinkscales ^ was growing up in the Level Land < 'country ,the stork was allowed to ^ 'come and go without any record of , I his arrival or departure in the pub- j j lie prints. Some things were taken ( | for granted and there was a delica- j t cy m publishing purely family mat- { , ters. y I' You can't keep a good man down It nor a good town. That is why we re-' 1 joice that Due West?the best place ' ( in all this world?has at last been | recognized by the Government at|s Washington as the one spot in this ] i great region of country where the ' s , record can be fairly kept of how the! j i winds are blowing in the heavens J ? I above us. There is nothing in the ( I earth below nor in the waters under' ? j the earth but only in the heavens j ^ above that can be compared with j j ' that little village in the upland I ! country of South Carolina. J A |l i Abbeville is making progress and \ generally in the right direction. The t 1 Press and Banner announces that j the Jackson-Jones Cotton Company > i has been organized there with C. D. i Jackson, who was "until last Fall i ( stationed at Pacolet and Ware j s Shoals, where he did the buying for.1 Pacolet Mills," and W. E. Jones,'r who is spoken of by the P. and B. as "Bill," the chief hero of Abbe--} 5 ville,* having won the Distinguished J j Service Cross, the Croix de Guerra 1 ' etc., while serving with the fighting 1 Thirtieth Division in Flanders in 11 the title roles. We are also inform i ( ed by the same authority that T. G. 1 i Perrin, Clerk of the City Council on Vital Statistics, has officially de-J clared that fifteen babies were' ! born in Abbeville during the month j"of May, of which ten were white | and only five colored, and that dur- . ing the present year there were six-' j ty additions to the population by ^ . what is called "natural increase." Another note of great interest made by the P. and B., and which, has a very distinct oeannp on uiu ( progress of the town is that Major Fulp, the Superintendent of the j City Public Schools, and Will Bam-1 i I well, a vestryman in the Episcopal j 1 Church, attended services in the 1 Seceder Church last Sunday. All of which goes to show that Abbeville is still a force to be reckoned with ! in the business, social and religious 1 world.?Spartanburg Journal. j 1 ABBEVILLE AND WOFFORD Now that Professor Mason Dupn has been elected Dean of the Facul ty of Wofford College, a higl lienor worthy bestowed, he will bi relieved probably of some of hi teaching duties, and, not havinj much to do as Dean, he will b' free to go ahead with the organiza tion of the> Abbeville Club. Deal Dupre is a native of Abbevill County, was born some years agi at the Court House, was started ii the right way, and is regarded a one of the many star men of tha aristocratic town who have gom out into the wide world to make i better. In his speech at the Woffori Alumni dinner Saturday night?wi mean his formal speech, for he ap peared to be wound Up and lookei as if he would . keep on speakinj "till broiad daylight"?Presidinj Elder Shuler paid a most eloquen tribute to Professor John G. Clink 3cales, one of the older and mos faithful and competent members o: .? t-i u- ?i r. - J cne racuuy, wnom ne uestrmeu a the Apostle of Education in Soutl Carolina ,the father of ?ompulsor education in this State, the mai who had spoken in every county city, town, village, hamlet and a most of the cross roads in the Stat< with all the eloquence and ardor o: one of the Twelve for the redemp tion of his native State from thi lurse of illiteracy. It was a jus tribute to a modest man whose verj soul is on fire with zeal in the high sst service for the State. Professo: Clinkscales is a native of Abbevill* County.?Spartanburg Journal. ( SHARPE-JONES. * xx._ 1J: iAAi. ^ a very pretty weuuiiig tuun. piau on Thursday afternoon at the beauti ful home of Mr. and Mrs J. R. Sharp near Donalds, when their younges daughter, Lois Allene was wedded t Mr. Robert Hayne Jones, of Andei son. The ceremony was performed i: the spacious hall, which was beaut: fully decorated for the occasion, an ivas witnessed by a large crowd o relatives and friends of "both brid and groom. Rev. J. M. Dallas, pasto of the bride said the words that mad the happy pair, husband and wife The bride looked lovely in an attrac tive suit of navy blue, with acces rories to match and carried a beauti ful bouquet of bride's roses and lilie jf the valley. The bride was attende< by Miss Annie Jones, sister of th jrcom, and Miss Macie Sharpe. Mis Tones looked beautiful in pink or. sjandie/and/oarried largeibouquet of :weet peas. Miss Snarpe, sister of ihi ?ride, was charming in green organ lie and also carried *weet peas. Mrs. Clyde Shirp.'. of Lrownlee lang with much telling "0 Perfecl L-ove" just before the ceremony an< ;weet strains of music sounded dur ng the service. At the close of th< :eremony, the guests repaired to thi lining-room where the happy bridi tnd groom received the hearty goo< vishes and congratulations of th< arge company present. Delicious block cream and cak< vas served to the guests by a num )er of the girls of the younger set vho looked like fairies in their pret ;y frocks. Mints were also served. Amid showers of rice and goo< v on/1 Mre .Yatioq toff Ki lUl I UilU i<&! IJ( 1/ Vil VU *VJ. V Mt luto for the mountains of North Car >lina where the honeymoon will b< ;pent, and on their return they wil )c at home to their friends in Ander on, where Mr. Jones is principal o: he graded school. Mrs. Jones as Mis Sharpe was one of our most popula: jirls and was loved by every one fo ler genial and charming disposition vVe congratulate Mr. Jones on win ling such a lovely bride. The bridi received a large array of useful an< jeautiful presents. BACK FROM DETROIT W. M. Lanjrley returned las] evening from Detroit having driver i new Dodge through the country Mr. Langley says that he had a ae lightful trip and that the day h< left the Dodge factory there wer< 500 others leaving with new Dodge; it the same time. CARUSO NOT TROUBLED BY LOSS OF GEM: New York, June 10.?What is i natter of $500,000 in jewels to the world's greatest tenor? Nothing almost. Here's Enrico Caruso's own wore for it in a cablegram from Havani celling his wife not to worry abou aurglars geting her jewels, valuec :) Mister Fiv e I tt I Has been holdin e | at the COl I I A number of At 3 acquaintance: l] 1 jj how to save you I jj and makes you i i I MIS I A great many sc they will make g money away?c< c m open a savings ; m care of it for yoi f nn? | Count tI SOUND 2 I Car L 1 Re i- H e I it 11 WE ARE P ?l SO d I {I B el I I Pom I lieuu STOVES A AND PRIC] BEST. SO IRON. EVERY 01 EVENLY A SOME LAI TER C W. A. ABBEVILLE, .. \. > i 1 at more than $500,000: "Assure all in the house they E have my confidence. Please don't s worry. I will replace all of the r stolen jewels. Please don't worry r about them any more, dear." We are proud of the confidence a doctors, druggists and the public j have in 666 Chill and Fever Tonic. j GEORGIA FARMS I . ri rv v% /? s ? l. r UK oAL.ll I ; 2650 Acres $40 per acre ; 700 Acres $50 per acre sl 300 Acres $35 per acre i 200 Acres $35 per acre . | 245 Acres $25 per acre i 'All t.hp above is adioin i ing or near Hazlehurst, :G,a. i J E. L. THOMAS, a Hazlehurst, Ga. t I to e Per Cent t g quite a Reception durir JNTY SAVINGS BAr ibeville citizens have beei 3e is still ready to give y r money. A deposit of $ a. partner of >TER FIVE PER CEl hool boys are going to w food money. Now boys d ome in to the County Sa account. Mister Five Pei i. ty Savings SAFE x oad of] iceived Toe . .1 so It- : LACING IN STOCK 1 LID C A R L 0 ?OF? jes and Cook St / ND RANGES OF EV] EFROM THECHEAPEi ME ALL STEEL. SOI *E GUARANTEED 1 lND LAST ETERNALL" ivnnv otax/rc iihtli i oiuvlo vviijn OILAMONG THE io Calvert an .. S< I In Every Busi i j i there are prosp* erything is runr high tide. And, of course, when knotty pre iness seems to e During trying i ; nesses. this tru: | proved a true c( To insure gettiri ' leaner times in ! urge you to lay i and strong in pi ? NATIONAL BAN] l "Abbeville's Sti SB / ffl ig the past week, | <K* i i in and made his ft nn aHiri/??? 00 +/\ X > \J U UU ? iw UO IU 1.00 starts you off S IT.. ' mm ork this summer; 1 on't throw your I .vings Bank and , 1, Cent, will take ! , n i DanK. m 'SERVICE ft| Ranges I lay p 'O-DAY A AD i \ 5*^*53 / f) \ v oves 1 i ' > ery size ||j 3t to the ' ME CAST . || :o cook Y [ HOT WAT. A q U iJUUd I DUTH CAROLINA. I I Ill W llllli ness j __ i erous times, wnen evling smoothly/ and at there are other times, )blems arise, and bus- k bb. >eriods in many busir stworthy bank has :>mmercial ballast. g the greatest help in YOUR business, we the foundation good rosperous ones. ; i K OF ABBEVILLE! rongest Bank"