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) ' . -/; . ; " * \ i" ' . O '''e; T \;f' J 1sp|?g Abbeville Press and Banner ! . . Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C.t Monday, June 21, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. _ . ? , = r MEMBERSHIP DRIVE ON -IN COUNTY ^ - COMMITTEES" BUSY TODAY X SIGNING UP CITIZENS AS WiDA' I " " " 'MEMBERS W iuu i n vnnvLINA DEVELOPMENT BOARD ?MEETING AT DUE WEST FRI 'DAY WELL ATTENDED?SECRETARY WILKINSON BUSY % ANSWERING QUESTIONS I The drive for members for the South Carolina Development Board throughout Abbeville County starts (in earnest today. The committees v from each school district in the j County have all promised secretary W. D. Wilkinson that they 'would get busy this week and thoroughly canvass their respective school districts. x The meetings Friday afternoon both in Abbeville and Due West were well attended and much interest manifested. This week marks the actual effort of the South Carolina Development Board to equip itself with the j and the resources necessary to un-j dertake the big program which has J 1 been mapped out for it. In the | county committess are seeking en-j roliments ana pieages. Many xe-| ports are already in but they will1 be so incomplete until the end of j the week that nothing like an ac-l , curate forecast is possible today. | Generally, however, the returns; promise to^be satisfactory. ! It has been definitely decided | that markets and marketing shall be I * the first undertaking of the board i after the completion of the expan-' sum campaign. This is the matter of utmost importance to the farmers,1 <nd other citizens of South Caro-' "lina. Goveror Cooper in his final > appeal to the people to support the development wrote: "The plan of the Development Board proceeds upon the great I principle that only through self- j realization can maximum happiness be achieved either by a individual j or by a state. Out potentialities are 1 unbounded.- Why not realize them? Theb oard will lead to the setablish-1 ment of home cash markets, will give impetus to live stock,\ fruit, | truck and dairy production; will.j make important contributions to general education, to public health, to road building and so on, and will be a medium of exchange for \ "ideas and information, and in short lend a guiding hand in every possible way to haten full realization bf eur state's possibilities. The underlying. principles of the board are broad and the objectives are speciv fic." 'IB! QH MITQT RFAT RDITA1M TO GET REPUBLIC' London, June 20.?The British government will nevert agree to the establishment of an Irish republic unless it is beaten to the ground," Premier Lloyd George told a delegation* of railway workers today. , "Lincoln faced a million casualties and five years of war rather than acknowledge the independence of the South," he continued. "The k British government will do the same thing in Ireland, if necessary.' r r f : COMING SATURDAY " ^- --1 v. ' r-- ' r .. v. .* ,/ Prof, and Mrs. Robert H. . Cole' 'man are expected in the city Sat^V.' unJay and wijlspend the summer at the home .of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Coleman. Bob and Meme, the two interesting children of the family, will come also and will enjoy ?the "up country" air. PROF. CLINKSCALES IN CITY 1 Prof. John G. Clinkscales, of Wofford college, Spartanburg, is in the city for a short vacation. Prof. Clinkscales is the guest of his sister, Mrs. John M. Gambrell, while here. DEATH OF MRS. C. A. HAIGLEI The many friends of Mrs. Charli A. Haigler were shocked to lear Saturday morning that Mrs. Ha: gler had passed away during th night. While Mrs. -Haigler had bee ill for a long time and her famfi and friends realized that she woui never be well aagin yet the news o her death came as a shock to their Mfs. Sarah Harris Haigler wa an estimable woman, an ideal neigi ' bor, and an adorable mother, whos jhdme was made happy and in whic she was the moving spirit, a quee in the eyes of her loving childrer Her charming presence will b "Sorely missed by her bereaved hus band and children to whom th sympathy of the neighborhood i extended in their hour of trial j During her long Hlness she has es hibited an example of wonedrfu Christian patience and fortitude. Sarah Harris Haigler, the daugli ter of Df^and Mrs. Thomas "X Harris, was born fifty years ago ii Clinton. Had she lived anothe month she would have completed ; quarter of a century as the wife o Charlie A. Haigler, who survive her. She has been a life-long mem ber of the Presbyterian church. Ii addition to her husband, Mrs Haigier is survived by six children C. A. Haigler, Jr., of Atlanta, Wil liam, Misses Sarah, Mary, Helei and Emmie. Two brothers, Willian Harris, of Senoia, Ga., and Thoma Harris of Tiglah, Ga., and two sis ters, Mrs. Richard Hill, and Mis Emma Harris both of this city als< survive their sister. The funeral services were con ducted by Rev. H. W. Pratt, Sunda; morning from the Presbyteriai church and the interment in Mel rose cemetery followed. The flora tributes were beautiful and th grave was literally banked with th beautiful flowers. . Among the out-of-town peopl present for the funeral were:* Mi and Mrs. J. Y. Young", Mr. and Mrs W. ^H. Shands, and Miss Essi Young, of Clinton, Mr."' and Mrs w.-iiiorv, o _ r*? vt laiiaiii naiua, ui oenuia, vja., am Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harris o Tiglah, Ga. DELEGATES TO GREENVILLE. Messrs W. D. Barksdale, J. i ; Stark, C. D. Brown and S. A. Gravt ! .cave tomorrow for Greenville whei ! they will attend a meeting of th I South Atlantic States association a | representatives of the Chamber c ' Commerce. The question of adjus jment of freight rates is the'princips ! subject for discussion at this mee in-g. PACKING PEACHES Miss Margaret Wilson left laj week for Ridge Springs where sh jwill be engaged during the peac [season in helping pack the croj Volunteers were asked for at Wir I throp college and Miss Wilson wi [join a party of twelve young ladie ! who in addition to having a goo I time will add a considerable sum t a-l_ _ t a. cneir pocKet cnange. FROM FLORIDA Mrs. Lucy Powell Grace is her from Florida for a visit to her sii ter, Jjlrs. C. E. Williamson. Mn Grace is weir known in.Abbevill and friends are glad to have he come back as a happy youn matron. . .. SERLES fOUND 'GUILTY 1C "_i f Clarence Serle*; a hjickman of th city, was tried before a jury in th mayor's court this morning fc dealing in white lightning and wa j found guilty. Mayor Mars gave hii his choice of $100 or 30 days. GEORGIA PEACHES Miss Lucy Evelyn Nickles an jMiss Margaret McKibben, of Jacl | son, Ga., are in the city for a vis to Mrs. Paul Link. These youn ladies visited in Abbeville last sun mer and their many admirers ai delighted to have them come agaii R CHURCH AND STORE DESTROYED BY FIRI e n Early Sunday Aborning on Sout] i- Main Street?Everybody Blame* e Everybody EUe for Lack of n Efficient Fighting of Fire JT "Department. d . f A disastrous fire in the wee, smal u hours of Sunday morrting c'ompletel; s destroyed the 'Voiltfing^an^ content l- of "the generkl merchandise store be e longing to I. C. Brown on- lo^e h South Main Street, and only thi n walls of the Methodist church nex i. door are left standing. e Miss Gossett, community nurse a i- the cotton mill, was returning from i e case and discovered the smoke am - ? ?A it - e * s names Dursting uui> wi wc >wi u I. Mr. Brown's store and she immedi ately gave the alarm. Mrs. Brown il Who with her husband occupied th< dwelling next door above me store i- waked just about the same time tha Miss Gossett discovered the fire am n 1 soon aroused Mr. Brown. r Miss Essie McCord, assistant man a ager of the Abbeville Telephone Co. f states that the operator oh duty Sat 3 urday night says that the community ' * S * -1 Ll.l ? " i nouse pnone rang snurtiy ueiuic ? n o'clock Sunday morning and that sh< immediately rang both the telephone : in the fire department and the citj council office, also giving the fir* n alarm but Miss' McCord states tha n ;it was ten or twelve minutes befor< 8 she got an answer from the fire de >- partment notwithstanding she kep s continually ringing the fire de o partment phone. Miss McCord also states that Mr Brown's telephone got out of ordei ^ before midnight Saturday and it wai a j discovered later by a lineman of th< "I'company that the phone wires lead fcl| ing to Mr. Brown's house were burn e ed in two from being crossed with th< ef electric light wires. I PvAiim in +o11n'nop f A O l?onro 6|sentative of the Press and ,&annei this morning, states that he endeav '*: ored for fifteen minutes or more t< 6 ! j get Central on his phone but, whei * I he heard the fire engine coming U ' his aid he had never succeeded. Hi , thinks probably Miss Gossett sue j ceeded in getting Central on the Com j munity House phone. He furthe: | states that a:ter the fire departmen j ' arrived on the scene that it w^s at 1hour before they succeeded in get . i ting water through the hose. He doe: j r.ot know what the ^xact trouble wa ? but states that the wrench which i is used to turn the hydrant tap woul< t ' not grip the original hexagon shap< .'of the tap, which had been won ^ i round by frequent turnings with ai j unauthorized wrench, and that thi I fire department did not carry a Stil son or pipe wrench for emergenc; purposes and were relying on the us> ^ of an. old fashioned monkey wrench Some one finally secured a pip ^ wrench which did the work. Mi Brown says that the church couli have certainly been saved had th ^ fire department been able to get wa ter and he is of the opinion that i ^ large part of his stock of goods couli have also been saved. J. L. McMillan, chairman of th water-works commission, states tha the entire fault of the inefficiency i to be laid on the fire departmen e which should carry a pipe wrencl j_ with the fire engine at all times. Mi McMillan did say that some of th e hydrants in the city were "dead1 ,r from failure to be frequently flush g ed and the mechanism oiled but tha | the commission through its superin tendent of water-works attempted t j put every hydrant in good, order jus j as soon as it was reported to them. ie . At any rate conditions were so fa ie from satisfactory at .the fire .tha >r Mayor Mars was summoned by tele is phone to come to see for himself. m Mr. Brown's loss is practical! complete, the total insurance on bot the store building.and stock of good being only $1450 while he estimate his stock alone to be wortli approxi id mately $10,000. The money and pa c- pers in his safe were all intact, bu it his accounts, which were ?ept in ig Champion register, claimed to be fir i- proof, were a total loss. Upon oper e ing the register yesterday afternoo n. the contents were nothing but chan / y | BABY CONTEST AT MILL i RESUMED TOMORROW ii Doctors and Nursea Will Resume th Grading of 120 frne Babies At Village?People of City, Particularly Medical Profes. sion Inrited to Attend * Even if the doctors ;and th ^ | nurses do not get the 120 babie 3 mixed up, they are going to hav< " their hands full explaining to 11! r'mothers why their babies were no e blue ribbon winners and we advisi wic uuui/urs, iiicieiy ad a ma^ci u [precaution, to take along with thi 41 scales and baby-testers a full equip a ment of first aid packages for per * sonal use only. f| Tomorrow afternoon at two o' " clock the baby contest, which wa t begun in May, will be resumed an< e this time the experts will kee] > eliminating until one baby is de declared as near as possible. Di i Dr. Hayne of the State Board o Health, in Columbia, Dr. G. W Carpenter, the baby specialist o , Greenville, ^"and Miss Murphy - registered hurse of Spartanburg as ir sisted by Dr. Gafnbrell and Mis J Gossett, of this city, will do thi i daring deed. -I l-r:? n n ? il :n u, 3 1T11SS VjUSSeilr LIICLC Will U\ f practically 120 babies enter j ed by tomorrow w a/ternoon t that the experts expect to completi i the grading this time and that th< -Jwinner will be announced. She als< t wishes to invite just as many of th< - people of the city to witness th< j contest, which will be held in th< # school building at the mill, as cai r possibly attend and especially doe: 3'she wish the medical profession oi ? the city to be there in full strength J The contest is proving quite ai .'education for all the mothers wh< } have entered their babies and thii fact accounts for the large numbei I of new entries for tomorow's con f test. ^ ' I ( ? . ? ? CAMP "TUMBLE IN" > l j some,oi tne nveiy young jaaie: ? of the city are going campinj _ Thursday .at Rapley Shoals and the: _ go prepared for a good time. The; r have named their cairfp 'Tumble In j. which, no doubt, will prove to be i x correct name. Mrs. Essie Nickle _ an^^Mrs. J. M. Morgan will chape 5'rofie'the following young ladies fo s a week: Misses Mary Nickles, Janii s Vance Bowie, Lena Bell Johnson j Mary Louise Dargan, Helen Mil B ford, Ada .Faulkner, Florence am Neuffer, Virginia Leslie am a Elizabeth, Gambrell. ' ' i _CHANCm FOR SCHOLARSHIP ~\ ' AT UNIVERSITY j 8, The Normal Scholarships of th ' University?of South Carolina ar 0 .vacant in Abbeville county and th * competitive examination will b [J held in the County Court House e Friday, July 9,. J920. Any of th young men of the County who wis' to take this examination may ge I full particulars from Dr. Patterso Wal'dlaw, secretary of the scholai 6 ship committee. His address is Cc lumbia, care of The University o s s. c. t I . U! _ Z. "j VISITING IN' GREENVILLE. e' Mrs. Willie Speed and Rachel an " | Susan Minshall went to Grreenvill i-J Thursday for a visit to Mrs. T. K t Marchant. The rain Sunday prevenl i-1 ed them returning through the cour o try. t' -, - j ed paper. >. rj The Methodist church which ws t( also destroyed fared slightly bette: i- the stefards having $1,500 insuranc on it. Nothing was saved from th y church except the pulpit chairs an h the organ. T> L-?J iL?i a j JDystailuers UIUIIU tu?V uic xai S| which was falling at the time ws i- the only thing that saved the adjoii i-( ing dwellings and prot>ab!y the Con it munity house across the street, a' A great deal of adverse eriticisi e is being dealt those responsible fc i- workings of the fire department fc n the exceedingly poor showing ma<3 >| Sunday morning. MR. AND MRS. PRATT HERE r V ? I Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Pratt were in I e Abbeville Sunday to attend the funeral 'services of Mrs. C. A. Haigler. They came (to Abbeville from Lexington, Va., at the request of the fami-' ly in order that Mr. Pratt might conduct the services at thd Presbyterian & e Church Sunday morning. , | s While in the city Mr. - and Mrs. j q Pratt, were the guests ot Mr. and ) Mrs. J. D. Kerr. They Jiave manyj t friends in Abbeville among all de-' e nominations who ar* ftways glad to j f see them, and who Rejoice to know e that they are pleasantly situated, . since they moved away from Abbe. ville. They left Monday mottling for! Savannah where Mr/Pratt takes up' ^ _ the work in which he is engaged af- e 3 ter a brief vacation. - r 3 t p NO SUGAR RATIONING NOW, SAYS PALMER ? * s * Z f Washington, June 20.?There i9 ^ to be no rationing of sugar at pres? ? ent, A. W. Riley, special. assistant , to Attorney General Palmer, announced today. Riley said consenra? tion would be Urged, but that the \ * /* n B attorney general, "does not feel ^ ready to put the country on a raB tion basis." , I It was stated that the canners are IT "pleased" with the present handling C' g of the situation. ; / fi a Following a conference between ! j j Attorney General Palmer, Howard j a 1E. Figg of the department and Mn , Riley, it was announced that Riley ^ will be in 'charge of the sugar sit- ( t uation, with headquarters in New ^ . York. He has hitherto been 'en- ? 5 | S( f gaged in prosecuting cases of prof- y iteering. , ( ' tl 1 GLASS FOR McADOO J ; q 31 Washingon, June 18.?Senator^ Glass in a statement to the Asso- 1 Jciated Press tonight declared "he [still favored the nomination of William G. McAdoo by the Democratic ^ party for president notwithstanding! 0 i Mr.. McAdoo's decision not to per-l ' ; mit his name to be presented at the ^ " | party's national convention." _ > f j Told that some supporters of Mr. ^|McAdoo now were planning to urge ^ '; e j his name, Senator Glass said: i? h ! "I still fayor Mr. McAdoo's nomi- j s : nation. Even if I could measure to | ^ " j the stature of the kind of man _ r I S jwhom the convention should really e ! nominate, I live in a section that is '' j relied upon to furnish the electoral ~! voters but not to supply the candii' date." ? i | b BELGIUM SAID TO HAVE N , ?WOUNDED KAISER * 1 Iv f i s 1 Doom, Holland, June 18.?There e ! are persistent rumors in the village j. e | that the former German Emperor, j e has been assaulted by a Belgian,' - i tttVin cVinwinor n fnrcofl rvnca {rained ! e | M1,V? ^ y ? . . ! admittance to Doom Castle. It is f '?| i e! asserted that the former Emperorj^ h j was wounded in the jaw. and that j, :t j the Belgian was arrested. ' nl It -Fias bee^ impossible thus far to ascertain whether these rumors are ^ i-j true. (> j WELL KNOWN EDITOR DEAD a f New York, June 20.?Edwin J. Heath, managing editor, of The Fourth Estate and a well known k newspaper man of New York and ' jBoston, died last ifaght at his home 0 k"jin Richmond Hills, it was an- C( l",nounced here today. He had been ill * [several, months. He was born in * ~ j N. H., December 22, 1864. His body 'will be interred there. IS ; ' - rJ IN CALIFORNIA :e|'- """ - b ie Cards have been received from d Miss Elizabeth Clinkscales who is Z 'touring the West stating that she is a n charmed with the climate and 18 scenery of California. 1- 1 ?- MOVING IN. si Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wilson have >r moved into their new home on Park>r er street and are (jomfortably set[e tied. Mrs. Wilson will give a hospital shower party this week. ^ / ~\ * IEED10 FIGHT FOR SEATING . . v ">' - 1iss0uri senator rejected '/'u by state convention?contest of tretiendou$jmfqr. TANCE TO BE DECIDED BY National committee ^Friday?status of women , also to be established at meeting triday r 3fcJ San Francisco, June 20.?A con est over the seating of United Stats Senator Jam^s A. Reed, of Misaoui, as delegate, and recommend** / ' ions for a complete change in party aw so as to establish denitely the ' tatus of women in the party organic ation probably will come before the . >emocratic national committee at its leeting here next Friday preparatory o the national convention, i>arty ex- 1 / cut'ives said today.. It also was announced, that Attor- , ey General Palmer would leave Washington for San Francisco tolorrow and that United States Sen tor Carter Glass, prospective chair- ! "m ian of the convention resolution* oipmittee, will be here Wednesday. rovernor Edward I. Edwards of New ersey, is expected to arrive Friday r Saturday. The' Reed contest possibility devel- * i ' peed today when it was learned thre x snator had been restored as a deleate at a convention of fifth Mis* M >uri congressional district delegates esterday after his name had been irown out and his place declared vn- v " ). ant by a state convention. The * uestion is one of jurisdiction beween the state and district convenons. v' ' 1 SsJiaior Reed's antagonism to cer-~ lin policies of the administration . rill make any contest in his^ case* one / f tremendous^ importance, according a leaders here. There are thirty-six delegates rom Missouri. , v Until yesterday the only contest in iew was that involving the twentyight Georgia 'delegates, wnose ad- I erence is claimed ootn ?y Attorney reneral Palmer and by the faction of he party headed by United States v ienator Hoke Smith and Tom Waton. On the result of this contest, ' /ill also depend the fight of * Clark lowell, oldest member in point of ervice on the national committee in v >e renamed to that post. Howell is or Palmer. The Smith-Watson facion is advancing W. C. Vereen, who , ' ras named on the, committee by a tate convention which was bolted iy the Palmer adherents who main 1 ameu uiai uunui onuuiu vvuwuuv. ; ?? i ?rytj NEWS FROM THE HARRISES Mif. and Mrs. Calhoun Harris, of. Lnderson, who are on an extended our of the Western country have &rived at San Francisco, where they ' ,re pnjoying the sights ana where hey will likely remain for the Democratic show. It will bej recalled that dr. Harris won this trip by writing very large amount of Insurance. or his company the past year. A NEW PROFESSOR HENRY / Professor and Mrs. D. H. Henry, f Clemson College, are receiving1 the ongratulations of their many riends on the arrival yesterday pt new \sori in their family. : -. Z DR. WHALING ENTERTAINEp r * * > . Dr. Thornton Whaling, Of JCoIvunia, who preached in the Presby- . jrian Church Sunday, was the uest while in Abbeville, of Mr. nd Mrs. W. D. Barksdale. 3ISfS?3JSJ3I3JS?3J3J3MSJSJ3JSJSI5/B/5/3J3JSlB COTTON MARKET* Jan. 32.40 Mar: 31.95 July , 36.73 Oct. 34.23 Dec. 33.10 I