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lAbbeville Press and Banned
Established 1844. $&00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C.t Friday, June 18, 1920. . Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th.Year. : ^
wilson "welcomes !
republican stand
l ^ WOODROW WILSON-HAS FULL:
EST CONFIDENCE IN DEMOCRATIQ
CjftNVENTION AND
SAYS LEAGUE OF. NATIONS
'SURE TO MEET TEST?BE.
LIEVE DELEGATES ARE GLAD
TO GO BEFORE PEOPLE.
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Vrtv-V .Tunc 17.?President
Wilson, in a special interview given
to; the New York World, to be pub?
listed tomorrow morning, said he
w "extremely confident that the
D^goocratic convention at San
Francisco will welcome the acceptable
by the Republican party to
dpte the league of nations the is80^
in this campaign."
ff?I am even more confident," the
president said, 'that such referendum
will confirm my faith that the
American people desire it above
anything else that a political party
now may provide, and that they
will condemn the Republican policy
of denying them the consummation j
of their hopes. No one will recom-|
mend a referendum on .that issue
more than I."
"I suppose I should feel flattered"
he said over being made the issue of
the presidential campaign by the
Republican party. But even the ef'
foYt of the platform makers at
Chicago to confer the distinction on I
v being not only a burning, but a jiving
issue by camouflaging ad obsecuring
the real issues will not deceive
the people.
"The processes by which the Chicago
platform was accomplished'1
seemed to me to have been essen-1
tialiy and scientifically Phissian ih j
inspiration and method. Instead of {'
quoting Washington and Lincoln,i
the Republican platform should j
have quoted Bismarck and Bern-!
hardi, because the Republican atti-j
/ tude regarding the supreme issue I
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that can not be abandoned or disre-;
garrdeu strongly suggests the arbi-,
trary influence that dictated the j
doctrines of those two eminent persons.
Every charge directed against j
me and my administration is ob- j
viously designed to becloud and j
negative the pai-amount issue con-1
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fronting the people of America, to I
"befog their sense of responsibility!
and make violation of, the obliga- '
v 1 tion they have assi/ned to be of i
^mall consequence. I sincerely be-[
lieve that the attempt of the Re-j
publican party to win the sanction |
of the American people for its at-^
tempted evasion of these . obliga-1
tions will be decisively rebuked, j
With ^#ie thing I am fully satis- j
fie4?that is that the Republican [
pa,rty in its platform has joined me '
in the suggestion I made in my let-j
ter to the guests at the Jackson Day j
dinner in Washington . in January j
I last.
Allen Robertson' Visit* Homefolks
Allen Robertson, who is now lo?
cated in Oklahoma City, is spending
his vacation with his sisters, Misses
May and Eugenia Robertson at the
old home on North Main street. Mr.
P nomA AMnliAmn
4?vvv*vwvu waut? Aiviu viviaiiuuxa
City ^en days ago, stopping at Lin.
,-'r ville Falls, N. C., to enjoy a fishing
'j. "trip With a party of his friends. Instead
of the usual post 'card announcement
of his intention to arrive
in a fey days, Allen sent a
huge North Carolina home cured
ham instead. ' J
JOE EVERETT, JR. SICK
Mrs. W. D. Wilson was called to |
Spartanburg yesterday by reason of
the illness of little Joseph EverettJ
The young man was in Abbeville recently
and returned home with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Everett
only a few days ago. He was then in
the best of health, and news of his
sickness is a surprise. Friends in Abbeville
will hope for him and for the
young parents a speedy recovery.
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APPENDICITIS CLAIMS . |
ENGINEER E. G. OWEN
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Mr. Ernest G. Owen, a well known
engineer on the Southern Railway,
died in the Whitehead-Stokes sanatorium,
Salisbury, N. C., early Tuesday
morning following an operation
for appendicitis. Mr. Owen who is a
brother of Will E. Owen of this city,
has. been with the Southern Railway
jfor twenty years, fifteen of which
he served as engineer on the Salis-|
bttry-Spencer yards. He was at his
post until Saturday evening but went!
i xi ?hp?:? J_?jr.. 11..
norae uicu suueuug uicttuiun; mv/w
what proved to be appendicitis. An
operation was performed Monday in
an effort to save his life but the dis-j
ease had already marked him for
death and he passed away early Tues-!
day morning.
Mr. Owen was in his fortieth year'
and is survived by a widow and two1
sons, and the following brothers and
sisters: Charlie and John Owen of
Spencer, N. C., Will E. Owen, of this'
city, Mrs. C. M. Thornton of Atlanta,'
and Mrs. W. C. Womble of Winston-j
Salem, N. C.
The deceased was a consistent j
member of the first Methodist church j
of Salisbury and was one of the most!
popular employees of the Southern at
Salisbury. He was familiarly known
to his fellow workers as "Cotton"
and was a most agreeable and sociable
man.
.Mr. ana Mrs. w. &. uwen returned
yesterday from' Salisbury whence
they had gone Tuesday to attend the
funeral services.
NEGRO ACQUITTED OF ;
LIQUOR CHARGE
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Jim Padgett, who was tried be-j
fore a jury in the mayor's court |
this morning for selling liquor, was i
acquitted. The star witness in the!
case was Sambo < Bugg, a lad of j
tender years and an old-timer j
whose various convictions fill a
page of the police blotter. Sambo '
could record the^facts in the case I
with minute correctness even to the!
minute by the clock and shop i
whistle when every move of the de-!
fendant was made. Notwithstanding
Sambo's absolute certainty that'
Jim dealt in white lightning, Ivjio
jury failed to agree with Sambo
and decided in favor of Padgett. D.'
H. Hill appeared for the city and,
W. S. Cothran and W. P. Greenej
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appeared ior me aeienaam.
PENSACOLA HAS SECOND
DEATH FROM PLAGUE^;
Pensacola, Fla., June 17.?The
second death from bubonic plague
in this city ocurred today when,
Oscar Green, the negro ice wagon j
driver, attacked about 10 days ago,!
succumbed. No other cases have i
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been reported to noon today. An
energetic campaign for the eradication
of rats was started today in all
sections of the city.
STRANGERS WORK "CON"
GAME ON ABBEVILLE FARMER;
Carey Fullw, a colored farmer of!
the County is today a sadder but wis-j
er man. Two newly made "friends"!
touched Carey for his roll of $200!
Tuesday by means of an old flimflam!
gaiiie of ancient origin. Not many'
weekS^go a Hodges negro was work-,
ed identically the same way and the|
fact was advertised in all the Coun-|
ty papers. We would suggest that I
Carey spend the next $2 he gets his j
hands on for a subscription to The]
Press and Banner and be wise to the j
ways of the world.
MR. BOTTS RETURNS
MUCH RELIEVED IN MIND I
The friends of Luther G. Botts are!
congratulating him upon being de-1
clared urinfected from the mad-dog
scare he suffered last week. Mr.
1 Botts returned yesterday from ColI
urnKiq Vta nronf f a nrmcnlf
: specialists following an examination
' of the head of his dog wnlch was
) feared to have had hydrophobia, and
! states that the doctors told him there
| was no cause for worry as he had not
I been infected.
BUILDING COF
! WAST
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In Getting Started To W
less Situation of Abbevi
-. Bui Iding Corporation
For And Lots Alrea
| . White Enthusiastic
Pl^ns of C
t
Mr. T. G. White, president of the 11
Home Building Corporation of Abbeville,
is in his happiest mood today. *
Sn monv pnnorrfl+nlntnrv messages \
have been received by him commend-) ^
ing the spirit which gave birth to the
corporation organized to provide *
more homes for both present and fu-j n
ture citizens of the city jthat he is all (*
smiles, despite the fact that he spent '
the greater part of the morning sit-*P
ting on a jury before which was tried n
a liquor case. '
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The Home Building Corporation
of Abbeville, S. C. is an assured fact
and all that is lacking to place it on
permanent record among 'like good ^
conerns in the charter, application
for which has already gone to the ^
secretary of state. I ?.
Thirty nine thousand dollars is the 1<
cum total today of the subscriptions r
to capital stock. This leaves a balance v
of only eleven thousand dollars and is
J. M. Nickles, president* of the Cham- C
ber of Commerce states that several
parties have told him to call to see fi
them as they wanted to subscribe, b
The entire capital of fifty thousand (11
dollars will be all taken within the c:
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TEACHERS LEAVE ?"
FOR WINTHROP <
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Of the teachers in the city schools ,w
who will take advantage of the B
courses in their respective grades T
offered at Winthrop college are, a
Miss Clara Adams, who left for \s
Winthrop" this week and. Misses o
May Robertson and Annie .Margaret a
Hill who leave here Monday. They tl
will be joined at Chester by Miss a
Annie Gantt, of Winnsboro, one of a
the teachers in the city schools last tl
session. tl
Mrs. J. D. Wilson, who joins the e
local corps of teachers next session, tl
is attending the Piedmont Summer w
School at Anderson college. v' S(
Supt. J. D. Fulp and Principal J. i?
M. Daniel will attend th^ confer- a
ence for fcity superintendents a,nd tl
principals to 'be held at Winthrop t:
June 22 in connection with the
C
regular summer school work.
DEDUCTS YEAR FOR (
EACH WOUND
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Philadelphia^ June 17.?An excellent
record made by Anthony ?
Telensky while serving overseas^
during the war, saved him yester- jw
day from' a long prison term for
raising $10 notes to $50. The pris-j
oner was wounded fourteen (times
and in imposing sentence, Judge P
Thompson deducted a year for each
wound. He Xvrfs given one year in n
^he federal prison at Atlanta. The b
judge told the defendant his of- ^
fense called for the maximum
sentence of 15 years, but that he
could not overlook his fine war
record. '
Telensky is an v unnaturalized t
Russian and : enlisted in a - New ,
_ . tl
Ertgland. regiment shortly alter war n
was declared \l>y this country, r . ^
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CLAIM THEY CAN MAKE t]
PULP FROM COTTONSTALK tj
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Petersburg, Va., June 17.?After r
: experiments lasting over a period ^
I of three months, the Stamscott
Icomapny, of Hopewell, announced
1 -L- J iL _ i. _ ~-P
> tuuay Ulttl U new prutcaa UI
I paper pulp from cotton fibre has
been developed and work will . be
started immediately. The company s
I here has been formed by the Am- r
erican Cotton company, East St. d
Louis Cotton Oil company, and the I
[Southern Cotton Oil company. u
IPORATION
ES NO TIME
ork To Relieve , HomeHe.?Adopts
N&meof
.?Charter Applied
dy Bought.?Pres.
Over Reception .
orporation.
text f?w days.
A telegram has been received bj
'resident White from the Mintei
lomes coraoration with offices ir
Jreenville, where they, have an im
aense contract in the same work thai
hey would like to make an appoint
lent. However, Mr. White' States
hat he is in favor of letting the conract
to some big construtlon com
iany which will build substantial anc
lore permanent homes than those ol
he "ready-to-wear" type so widelj
dvertised. ?
The following building lots have
een bought by the corporation: lol
n Lemon St. from J. A. Smith, twc
5ts on Orangfr-St. from R. S. Link
ne lot on Haigler St. from Ernesl
IcCord, and one lot on Parker ^5t,
rom Robert Cheatham. ?f these
>ts were sold the corporation very
eksonably in view of the 'object for
rhich they are to be used. Everybody
i pulling together to help Abbeville.
>ne of ou^ prominent merchants
tated a few days ago that for the
rst time in ,his remembrance all the
usiness men of the city were pulling
1 the saide direction?for a better
ity. ,
ROTRACTED MEETING '
AT BAPTIST CHURCH
Beginning Sunday evening services
ill ?. be held iA the Abbeville
aptist church1 for 6li6- week,
he hour of meeting, will .be 8:30,
nd Rev. L. J. Bristow, < the pastor
rill do the preaching. Announcement
f the protracted meeting states that
11 of the sermons will be based on
le truths contained in John 3:16
nd it behooves those who expect to
ttend the meeting to be present f/i
,ie first sermon so that they will hear
tie beginning of the series. While
ach sermon will stand for itself yet
lie greatest good will come to those
rho do not miss a single one of the
eries. We are glad' that Mr. Bristow
> 'tackling the meeting without the
id of some imported evangelist foi
tie local pastor, like the good < oldime
religioiOs good enjmgh for us.
HICAGO BANKS' REFUSE
TO LOAN aW-MONEY
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Chicago, June 17.?James B. Foran,
chairman of the Chicago clearlg
house today notified the city
ri'at a request for a $15,000,000
)an had been refused by Chicago
anks and that no more money
rould be loaned to the City at this
ime.
Refusal of the city to adopt a
^ii^e-tioii by the bankers that imrovement
projects be cutrailed unil
a more opportune time' for fiancing
t'hem, is responsible for the
anker's action, Mr. Forgan said.
!hicago faces bankruptcy before
fie end of the year, he added.
Joel Morae Confined to Home
Joel S. Morse, who made an exensive
trip to and in Tennessee reamed
home Tuesday even ire;
luch the Worse for wear and today
i confined to his home by illness.
Ir. Morse was unable to preside a$
lie development board organizaion
meeting this afternoon all on
ccount of the fact that of his disegard
of the advice given him
hat moonshine and Tate Springs
rater won't mix.
PICNIC AT MARTIN'S MILL
A sr.ore or mnw of the Hetfutantes
ub-debs, and younger Beau Brum
dels of the city enjoyed a picnic and
lance at Martin's Mill last evening
Sven the chaperones enjoyed "the
moonless" function.
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DEVELOPMENT RALLY
WELL ATTENDED
The^mass meeting called for the
organization of the South Carolina
Development board in Abbeville
County was called to order at 3 o'clock
this afternoon in the County
CJ^urt House^by J.. M._ Nickles, in \
the absence of J. S. Morse, County '
chairman. t i - .
Approximately 160 "of the representative
men ot ihe different secI
tions of the County were present to
| hear the talks ''by- Major Henry
j Tillman, Messrs. Kenneth Baker
;and St. John Arihes. Each of these
r gentlemen made inspiring addresses
? and the large body of listeners
i gave them rapi. v attention. Each
. I speaker touched on sotone of .the n
t different ^missions of the board and g
.! told bf the plana by which every5
body "can dot it for South Caro- i
.|lin?." ' f
J Beginning Monday, June 21, a
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l|iiieinDersnip anve wiu De made injf
I every school district in the County %
r and much success is anticipated a
from the interest the . representa5
tives of the several, districts exhib- ^
j'ited'at the meeting' this afternoon. t
From Abbeville the speakers go t
J to Due West where a similat organ- v
ization meeting will be held at 6 o'- ^
j clock this afternoon.
i DR. SIMPSON' COMMENTS Ij
Dr. W. D.v Simpson, of Monroe, N.jn
I C.,^spent a part of the week in the e
J city shaking. Hands with as many of,**
his friends as he could locate and re-,r
I newing his youth with them. The doc-'
i tor says he likes Monroe becatise it ^
1 was his first" love and native heath J
I but he will never feel that a part of p
l
I ^Ahliovillo '/I AAA TIA+ UAI ATtM Z<
. < Ulb ' < VV1 ilUb UClVUg W IUUU 1UI
J here hfe spent imany happy years and ^
ha^hundreds pf friends in the city
fKnd over the County. In connection,u
I with his supervisory w?rk with the z
| Belk cbmin t)f stores over the Oaroj
Knas and Virginia Dr: Sampson says ^
I'that he receives over fifty daily, tri (
weekly, semi-weekly and weekly pa- ^
; pers but for being the best all-round
; newsy paper he has to hand the blue e
i ribbon to The Abbeville Press and Sl
i, Banner. For lofcal news, he says The. ^
Press and Banner can't be b'eat. In- ^
cidentally before leaving for Monroe ^
yesterday the doctor renewed his sub- w
i scripti^n although it do^s not expire
; until July as he said he cojudn^ af:
ford to miss an issue and wanted to" 0
' ' h
i preserve ' domestic felicity in his
r family. - /It'
' S. C. BANKERS MEET .
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k 111 Unc-LIXVILLL
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The local banks have received in-! $
[vitations to attend the meeting of'
ithe South Carolina Bankers' asso-'S
ciation which meets in Greenville, |e
June 22. It is expected that fully Is
500 bankers will be the guests of;0
ithe Mountain City at this meeting, j*1
| Announcement was made today j
j that Prof. D. W. Daniel, of Clem-J"'
i son College and Robert Latftaji,!
! editor of The News and Courier,
Charleston, will be the principal *
speakers at the convention. Prac- ^
tically all of the local bankers have *
signified their intention to attend r
this meeting. 1 r
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TWO SEAPLANES COLLIDE b
IN MID-AIR e
f
Pensacola, Fla.,v June 17.?Two f
seaplanes clashed together in mid- li
,air here today and fell more than
50ftrfeet into the gulf. According to
the report to the naval station, William
B. Livingston^ chief electrician,
was killed and his body was ?
not recovered. He was p|lot ofan H. v
S.-2 type plane. The otner machine, s
ja No. 9 type, was piloted by Lieu-ic
j tenant John Bumsworth, who was v
1 not fatally hurt.
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! MRS. REESE IN HOSPITAL
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j Mrs. Bradley Reese is in the city
hospital at Anderson wfiere yester- j
, day she underwent a slight opera- ^
. tion. Her condition today is quite j
I favorable, the operation being a ^
. complete success. Mr. Reese is ex- j.
; pected to return from Anderson
this evening.
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VETERAN PRESIDENT OF AHERIC
AN FEDERATION: Ofc LA- . :.J1
BOR FAILS IN'FlSit TOJPRE- *
VENT 1NDORSEHENT OF GOVERNMENT
OWNERSHIP 0# , ^
RAILWAYS ?f ADOPTED BY ' ^
DECISIVE VdTE
Montreal,-June 17.?The Amert- ^fl
an Federation of Labor's indorse- :1-\
nent today of government owner- ?- ;'|9
hio of t.VlP TAlIrAflfta of if?
onvention was declared by labor . "c
eaders tonight to have been the ^
irst genuine defeat Samuel ^Jomp- . v|3
rs, its veteran president, has stif . ^
ered in years. The final vote was _ -*
!9,05iKfor government ownership a
,nd 8,339 against. ?
The decisive vote, it is - raporced * J?
prompted the labor chief /to state':
efore the convention lat<e today .
hat he "was not quite ' sure" -he *%j|
fould be a candidate for re'.lec- 1|
Mr. Gompera fought hari agafhst'
he coiventfon's action, declaring
i was a step toward~the "enslave^
lent of the'workers as government
mployees," who, he said, had 4>eeiK 'tf'-TS
enied many political ariff^ economic ' . Jil
ights under' the past adminidtraions.
He received only a mild ova- , ^
The United Mine Workers *rwivtk? * I'Jxm
owerful railroad workers', org*ni- ' ;
ations combined* to bring about " ^
'resident Gompers' defeat. They , .
ad the support of machinists' ;t|
nion and the meial trades organi- |
^ticn, all powerful voting factors. j
The carpenters' unions and^ the
uilding trade oirgapieation stood 0 ;J|
>yally by. Gompers but were oyer- .. ,V||a
'helmed. ^
After the fede&tion's action, the " JB
xecutive council, whose members ?3
upported Mr. Gompers, is said to >v?
e placed in an embarrassing posit . 19
ion. They must now take steps to ' jfl
ring about government ownership , V
rhich they have opposed or ifesign,':
; was . stated. ' 1
Supporters'of Mr. 'Gompers de- , /.rtjj
Iared .tonight-that they would urgef - J
im to retain leadership of the
ederation arid seek reelection for . %
he 39th time^
Despite the protest and desires of
Ir. Gompers, - the convention in- i
reased his salary as president from ||
10,000 to $12,000 a year. /' ' .< 33
In making an appeal, to the dele- , M
ates not to give a raise, M/. G,omp- \
rs declared that "$10,000 is all \ 'j|
ufficient for a man living in the ? |]
rdinafy modes of life to satisfy " 'i/jm
im and his needs." .'.'5y|
ENNER LINK'S FINE COTTON \ |
_
S; J, Link, king of the Press and
Janner block, has some wonderfuly
good prospects for a bumper coton
crop on his huge plantation
lear the city on the Greenwood Joad.
The king s$ys his face and
lands are not sunh?im<?fK n?/i
listered for nothing and 'that he
xpects to- sell enough cotton this
all to put in a whole carload -of '
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urniture to supply his 1 increasing
ist of "extortion" cutomers.
SEEING THE PARK: J
Littfe -Miss-. Margaret Vandiver ^
nd ^Miss ; Margaret . Swetenberg :
rent over to Atlanta Wednesday to J
ee the sights of the big city. Their
hief object was Grant's Park, ' 1
rhere little Margaret showed big
largaret all the monkeys and elehpnts
to be seen.
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uly 37.53 1
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