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' - ' * : ;%li . ' ' ' ' V' * * * - ,<*?. . >m ' ' ' ' ' ' v ' ,;^'vl|l "Abbeville Press and Banner 1 Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C., Monday, Jnue 28,1920. Single Copies, Five Cento. 7$th Year.;:^i| PARTIES CONTINUE' | - DRIVE EOR VOTESI i i> ' _ I, i SENATORIAL CANDIDATES IN. IJ CAMDEN TODAY, OTHERS IN . I BARNWELL ? CONFLICT IN * PLATFORMS LIKELY TO DE-lJ It VELOP INTEREST AS THE CAM- j PAIGN ADVANCES 1 f The State of Monday had the fol- 1 lowing to say: j J The senatorial campaign opens this 1 morning in Camden, and that for^ candidates for state offices In Barn-^ ^well. Small crowds heard the candi dates in the counties visited las I week. 1 In the senatorial party there is 1 ? ^ promise of gradually developing in-^ terest because .of the sharp contrasts c in the platforms of the different can-J didates, particularly between those of ^ W. P. Pollock and George Wa/ren. * Senator Smith, incumbent, will return * to South Carolina early next week and join the party in the Piedmont,1 which wilj give further impetus t the campaign. Mr. Pollock's vote for woman suf frage while in the senate Is mos likely to become a sharp issue before j the campaign, is carried any great ( ^length. The Cheraw candidate says 1 he will withdraw from the race if the1 ( national Demoratic platform contains * a plank to repeal the Volstead' act for < the enforcement of the 18th amend-j1 raent * ) ^. j1 Mr. Warren's reply to this at Ben- c nettsville last Friday was that Mr.;c Pollock took the same oath of office*11 y two years ago he ypuld have to take next March, if elected this summer, * and while in the senate voted for woman suffrage, when the Democrat- ^ ic platform specifially stated that the 1 issue of woman suffrage should be * left to the respective states. Mr. Pollock's threat to withdraw was doubtless taken with two objec-' tives?first to put Senator Smith on' { the defensive on the eqqual suffrage j planks in conflict with his own plat- , form inserted a plank favorable to ( woman suffrage, and also to depopu- * J 4 larize Mr. Warren's plea .ror modifi- f cation of the Volstead act, particu^ ( larly as *to its most "drastic and ab : ? surd" features. , I, The Hampton county candidate says 1 T ? ? ? 4-yN "TX v?/-vVi i Ki + inn QTlH i ne is uui> uppuacu iu jiiv/uiuimvh t?iAVA * to establish his status on the liquor ] question, he points with emphasis to ] the fact that he wrote the present 1 prohibition law of South Carolina ] ?vliilc a member of the lower house of 1 the general assembly. His entire < platform is a protest against cen- ] . tralization of powers in Washington, i < If South Carolina would pass a Vol- i stead act for the enforcement of the prohibition law, he would not voice opposition. W. C. Irby of Laurens also dis- j agrees with. Mr. Pollock as to the j plan of withdrawal, should the na-'( tional Democratic convention insert < I 1 planks in conflct with his own plat- j form. The state canrnaism for thei. candidates was created for the. spe-[] cific purpose, he says, of letting the], the people know where the candidate^ stood and if elected he knows the! people would expect him to stand for the same policies he advocated on the ::: . stump, Tegardless of the national: platform plank. l' Senatorial candidate^ will speak ' this week in Camden, Lancaster,York, Chester, Winnsboro and t Col-;1 > umbia. I Candidates for state offices wil i i M speak in Barnwell, Allendale, Hamp-!j ton. Beaufort.- Rideeland and Walter ! boro. VISITORS FROM FC^RT LAWN Mrs. M. E. Jones, and daughters,1 Misses Corinne, Churchill and Sarah | Jones, of Fort Lawn, arrived in the. city yesterday for a visit to Mrs. Jones' daughter, Mrs. Ed Roche. They made the trip from Fort Lawn in! their car. RECEPTION AT HOSPITAL Opening Exercises Will Be Held At 6 P. M. Thursday?Public Is Invited The hospital will be opened for :he reception of patients Thursday ifternoon. Public owning ceremonies wil be held at the hospital it six o'clock Thursday afternoon, ind the public generally is invited ;o be present. An invitation is ex;ended to visit the institution from lour o'clock in the afternoon, at vhich .time Misses Reep and Adkins, issisted by other graduate nurses, vill escort visitor^ through the >uilding. It is hoped that a large lumber of persons will avail. themlelves of this opportunity to see the lospital. The opening exercises will take >lace at six o'clock. There will be in opening and a closing prayer, ind two set addresses, one by Dr. J. 3. Hill, president of the board of lirectors and the other by the Hon. '. Moore Mars, mayor of Abbeville. Ifter these exercises, the women of he hospital auxiliary will serve rereshments to all who are present. i BIG CELEBRATION SATURDAY ( \t the Cotton Mill?Arrangement* Being Made For Barbecue Din* ner, Athletic Events, Etc. The management of the Abbeville (' Cotton Mill has arranged for a big 1 fourth of July celebration to be pull- ' id off Saturday, July 3. Elaborate 1 irraneements or a barbecue, athletic ! :ontest, and baseball game between^ ionea Path and Abbeville. Mr. Bur-, 1 i ell, who is active manager of the 1 :elebration states that a tremendous 1 :rowd is expected and that ample >rovisions are being perfected to 1 tandle the throngs. The contests are! >arbecue will be held on the cotton' I nill park. Free lemonade will be pro-! ided for everybody and a big time s anticipated. Dinner will be from 1 * o 2 p. m. i r , ;? THE FISH MERCHANT 1 J ,1 Dote didn't get up town Saturday'i * *! HPl* ^ iiros t lliernoon unui iaie. me icauuu % ;hat he had two or three barrels of 1 rood fish which he wanted to sell out, t >r hide before brother Walter got :to ;own. He had no trouble to sell the 1 isfy he said but it took some of his 1 :ustomers so long to decide which 1 string of fish they would take that it ( greatly delayed him. Walter got down i ate but could find no evidence of 1 /sh, but he was not fooled. He quiety went home, and landed back at Dote's early 'Sunday morning fo^ Dreakfast where he found the finest plate of fish he has been the "'busyoee" for in a long time. They were looked on Mrs. Smith's new range bought of W. A. Calvert & Sons, called the Champion, or as Dots calls it,'"The Champeen.' BABY CONTEST COMPLETED -J? The Baby Contest which began in Way has been completed. Dr. J. A. 3ayne of Columbia and Dr. E. W. Carpenter of Greenville examined :he babies anl the score cards are >eing averaged up by Dr. Gambrell ind Miss Gossett. The winning rabies of the contest will be anlounced Friday evening at 8:30 at Jie mill school auditorium. LOOKING OVER HIS FIELDS | Vestryman W. M. Barnwell ab-1 jented himself from services yesterJ Ifvci iDawiwaII Am/1 fVia I JM)f axiu WVA. MiO, UAt ilTTtli OllU bUV children a circuitous route over $he eastern part of the County and into Greenwood County showing them j what he swapped the telephone company for, also showing them I how fast the new Davis can run on a fine Sunday. MRS. REESE IMPROVING M. B. Reese and the children of the family spenl Sunday in Anderson' with Mrs. Reese who is a patient In the Anderson Hospital. The friends of Mrs. Reese will be glad to know that she continues to improve and that she will be able to return home in about two weeks. E. R. THOMSON SELLS STORE T. M. Miller and John T. Evana, Purchasers, Will Take Charge On September lit. A business change "of ftiore than passing interest occurred Saturday when a deal, which had been pending' for some weeks, was tfonsumated whereby T. M. Miller and John Tj Evans become owners of the general merchandise business which has been owned and conducted by E. R. Thomson for 22 years. , Mr. Miller was formerly In the grocery business for himself but last August sold his stock to th$ Co-operative Mercantile Co. and accepted a position* with Mr. Thomson. For the past two months Mr. Miller has been general manager of the Co-operative Co. Just who will succeed him with this concern is not known at present.' Mr. Evans formerly conducted a mercantile business at the Abbeville cotton mill but during the past winter and spring has been local mana-j ger of the American Woolen Mills Co. ' This transaction marks the passing of. one of the few firms in the city that has remained under sanqe management as originally established. E.-R.' Thomson has conducted tbis business since September 1898 and has been unusually successful, or many years Mr. Thomson catered to the fancy ( grocery trade as well as handling a I N I general line. For the past two years he has conducted a strictly cash bbsi-j ness. His is the only business on that| side of the square that has remained the same for over 20 years. The style of the new firm will be the Miller-Evans Co. Both Mr. Miller( and Mr. Evans have served notice on their employers that they intend to resign effective August l.v SECEDER NEWS The Y. P. C. U. of the Associate ) ? -p 3 -i t_ J_ _ .n 1 veiurmeu cnurcn 13 in tx ?iviuii>iiiiig :otoditdon, the young people guaran-' eeing the support of a missionary i n India for the next year. The ] Jnion at Abbeville contributed i :ifty dollars Sabbath to the support; >f this missionary who is the Rev.!( ?red T. McGill who sails in August ;o vbegin his work. The State Convention of the Y. ?. C. U. will meet in Greenville the I ast of this week and Abbeville will [ >e represented by Miss Lydia 3wens, Miss Ada _ Faulkner, Rev. | ind Mrs. M. R. Plaxco and Miss Mamie Devlin. NEW REPAIR SHOP ! Col. Ben H. Williams has broken out in a new place. It doesn't make any difference either where he breaks out, because he will be there, whereever it is. This time he commences business on dhurch street where he has opened a first class repair shop, and where he is prepared to fix your automobile, or any other anrmal. He has two sons who are as good as he is, and they are associated with him in the new enterprise. i He is not only a first class re pairer, but his shop is the place to ( get a good job of painting. If your automobile needs polishing up and' you want it to look as gooc as new,j it will pay you to see Big Ben, or the boys. GETS MOUNTAINS OF MAIL Washington, June 26.?Senato^ Harding devoted virtually his entire, day to correspondence. In addition t?| the usual daily delivery of 3,000 to ^ AArt 1_1J. .Antainintf' about 15,000 letters, sent by expressj from his home at Marion, were de-, livered at Mr. Harding's office today, j BROWN WILL REBUILD t Mr. I. C. Prown, whose store was burned last week, is having the lot cleaned up and is preparing to rebuild. He expects to be ready for business in sixty days. . PLAY FRIDAY EVENING The Sunshine Club of the Abbeville Cotton Mill, is rehearsing for a play to be given at the school auditorium Friday evening. ! WARDLAW STREET WAKES UPj And Agree to Cut the Big Oak In' Order to Have Paving?Other j News on the Street. \ A resident of Wardlaw Street com-j plained one day last week that she was "just tired 6f nothing being said in the Press and Bairncr aDout Ward-J law street so as Wardlaw fltreet is beinning to forge ahead it is with| pleasure that we "drop these few lines." j After several petitions for and against, the street will be paved. The council declined to pave the street unless the big oak in the iniddle of the street was cut down and on thls| "the street" was divided. The ques-J tion has been arbitrated, the big tree must give way to the march of pro-' gress and the street will be paved. I Two new houses are in the course of erection on the street. A handsome residence is being built by Mr. Leland Stephens and one by Messrs Oalvert and Hill. \ Col. L. C. Parker in spite of 4*the( street's" many attractions has bought the Rerrin lot on Greenville street and will build at an early date. Col. Ren wick Bradley moved off the street to Columbia about two years ago which/decrease^ the population by about thirty-eight per cent.' Wardlaw street has the distinction of being the home of more handsome widows than any other street in town.' R. M. HADDON RECEIVES "CONSCIENCE" MONEY. Right frequently the United StateB^! treasury is the recipient of what is ' known as "conscience" money and J sometimes in rather large amounts.' ? j But it is a bit unusual in Abbevill# for such a thing to occur. Imagine then the surprise which awaited Mr. 1 R. M. Haddon upon opening a letter received in Saturday's mail to find a 1 five dollar bill pinned to a note bear- ing the words "Concience Money Taken from You in 1913." Whether thet misspelling of con- 1 science was intentional upon the part of the conscience-stricken individual is not certain as the words arid ad-,' dress both were plainly printed in i1 capitals with'pencil. Mr. ^tiaddon is not worrying about the spelling so ' long as the five dollar bill is good currency. j ' METHODISTS TO . < |} I HOLD MEETING ' ' The Baptist meeting which was;' conducted throughout __last week'' came to a close Sunday night. Oni( Monday evening at-8:30 o'clock the j^ pastor of the Methodist church,'1 Rev. C. E. Peele, will begin a seriesV : i_J_ _i Ji_ -ll i < ui services 111 nis ciiuicn, which wui , continue throughout the week end-j ing Sunday evening. There will be | oniy one service each day at 8:30| p. m. At the conclusion of the Methodist meeting, service for the following week will be conducted in. the I A. R. P. Church by the pastor, Rev. j M. R. Plaxco. It will be announced later if the Episcopalians, Catholics and Pres-! byterians decide to follow suit. MASS MEETING ^ TiirsnAV rvrviNr. There will be a mass meeting of the citizens of the city Tuesday evening, June 2P, at 7 o'clock in the court house for the purpose of electing j three trustees for the city schools.] The three whose terms expire June 30th, are J. S. Morse, W. P. Greene' and R. S. Link. A MUSICIAN * Miss Mae Archer of Cedartown, j, is in the city spending some time! with her sister, Mrs. Earl Ferguson. Both sisters are accomplished J musicians. Mrs. Fercruson having: a t sweet voice and Miss Archer play-j ing the violin. , MOONLIGHT PICNIC Mrs. Paul Link has issued invitations to a moonlight picnic in honor of her guests, Misses Nickles and McKibben. \ BUSINESS SUSPENDED JULY 5TH ? ; ! Independence Day Comet on Sunday So All Buainew Houses of City Agree to Cloae Monday Independence day falling on Sunday this year the majority of the bus-' iness places in the city will be/Closed Monday, July 5th. Those who have' agreed to close Monday are: S. J.t Link, Co-operative Merc. Co., L. W. White Co., A. M. Smith & Son, L. W.J Keller, Cason & McAllister, National Bank of Abbeville, Parker & Reese,' Haddon-Wilson Co., Wm. H. Cobb ' I Co., Rosenberg. Merc. Co., Farmers Bank, Philson & Henry, W. A. Lee,' Amos B. Mors4 Co., J. S. Bowie &' Co, Abbeville Motor Co., Hall Invest-' ment Co., A. M. Hill Co., L. C. Haskell, Mrs. Jas. S Cochran, J M. Ander-j son Co., W. D. Barksdale, Little .& Thomson, W. E. Johnson, Citizens Ins. & Trust Co., C H. Bosdell, C. f>. Brown, Jr., Kerr Furniture Co., The Stark Vehicle Co., R L Mabry, T. H.' Maxwell, Peoples Savings Bank, J.' Allen Smith, Jr., County Savings Bank, Harris & Calvert, American Woolen Mills Co.. Ramev Kr. fUlliftTn.' B. T. Cochran & Co., W. A. Calvert & Sons, Acker Bldg. & Repair Co.,, E R. Thomson, Adair's Dept. Store, D. Poliakoff, Planters Bank, Abbeville Water & Electric Plant, E. F. Atnold, Bowie Bros. Auto & Tractor Co., Covar & Hyman, Moore Bros. I / . j. THE PASSING OF THE OAKS | / ' . i j' The big tree-'on Wardlaw street which is soon to be cut down that the street may be paved is the last of the handsome trees which in the old dayB made our town a beautiful village.1 rhe first tree to go was the fine one 1 in front of the old Dendy Corner 1 which gave, way for the building of 1 the Kosenberg block of stores. ! The second big tree was in the mid- , ile of Main street in front of the,"old Alston house" which stood where ' Barksdale's store now stands and now ' the tree on Wardiaw street must be sacrificed as we grow* to be a city. ; Two of the handsomest tfees ever in Abbeville were the fine Hvater oaks in Fort Pickens in the^lot owned by Jane Williams on wnlch now 3tands the pretty bungalow of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Botts. I O. . J! MOVING TO TOWN * I V I In order that he may counteract' it least a part of the evil reputaAM n n a /i/t M/l v\1 n M TVrlt 1 /tit V\ 1 ? /iun a.3 a vaiu-piajrci wmtn ms brother, William D., is making for i the Wilson family, Sam L. Wilson,! >n Saturday purchased thd Dixon , house on Wardlaw street from T. j G. White and will move to the city | soon. The .consideration was $8/1 500. Mr. Wilson has many friends; who will welcome him and his fam-| ily vto the city. HOPEWELL CHURCH ? Rev. J. Andrew Smith of States- ( ville, N. C. will begin a meeting at Hopewell church June 30th at 11 a. m. Preaching every day at that hour^ and every night at 8 o'clock, except Saturday night. On Sabbath .July 4tl\, the church will be dedicated, the Rev. S. L. Mor-' ris, D. D. of Atlanta preaching, j There will be dinner on the grounds that day. A large gathering Is expect-1 ed, and the community being quite small, it will be necessary therefore,' for all to bring baskets. 1,3^0,000 GERMANS KILLED IN WORLD WAR Geneva, June 24.?Recent statistics published in Germany on that country's war losses show that 1,350,000 men were killed} There are 520,000 war widows, according to the statistics, 1,130,000 war orphans and 500,000 maimed or con-j sumptives Supported mostly by! charity. CHIEF JUSTICE IN COLUMBIA! Chief Justice Gary went down to Columbia today, where the justices will meet in conference and dispose of a number of cases argued at the recent term. He will return tomorrow. 1 v MM WILL N01 SPURN NOMINATION THIS ANNOUNCEMENT OVERTURNS WHOLE SITUATION ON EVE OF CONVENTION? SAN FRANCISCO OPENS WIDE ,'[% ITS GATES TO DEMOCRATIC :&J VISITORS San Francisco, Jane 28.?The an- ^ nouncement tonight that William , - ,.J G. McAdoo would not reject the Democratic presidential nomina- * I tion overturned the whole situation, as to candidates before the convention, which new is to have *>its "big three." 9 National Committeeman Love of Texas, . regarded as ( McAdoo's ; * spokesman, without giving specifications, publicly stated he has'as- .vVjl surarices that Mr. McAdoo would accept if homdnflted. He declined to amplify his statement. 1, Mr. Love's statement follows: A > 3 "The question is frequently asked;whether, in view of Mr. McAdoo's , . : ? *1?1. Vi <? >iui.cic ucmic tuai. us llttllie not DC presented to the convention, he would accept the \ nomination if , made. " I "I say with assurance, that if \'3, nominated he will accept. . "The constantly increasing de- ' mand for McAdoo's nomination y'\ among arriving uninstructed ' dele- ^ ?ates convinces me tfait he will be \ ^ nominated. Texas will cast 40 votes ' out? in the open to 1 force an early is nominated. ' . ; A The McAdoo movement which bad been straining at the least, took on a new meaning and his hoomers^^at^ ,#>j ~ - -*jwi once asserted that they would ' W ' t|? high in the list when the first ballot was concluded. \ v$[ Rival forces were not certain what would be the effect ' of Mr. y Love's announcement. The Cojf camp asserted early in the day that .. * *1 everything possible would, be done' out into the open to force an early ' show of strength. BAPTIST NEWS ' ' * . j~*The series of services being held in the Baptist church for the past week, closed Sunday night, the regular Union services being held with the Baptist. The meeting has been most successful, the attendance has been good and there were eight accessions to the membership of the church. 1 Sunday night the services were unusually attractive, a splendid '? musical nroeram beine rendered, Miss Ruth Howie playing the organ Miss Vic Howie the piano and Miss Archer of Ced&rtown, Ga., the violin. The regular choir was help- \ , ed out by Alvin Ellis, Max.' Smith7 and Dr. Milford. . ' h,$ THE GREEKS WEEP* ' There was sorrow among the Greeks of the city Saturday morn-" ing when somebody "threw a ' . monkey wrench in the wheels" of the ice cream machinery stripping the gears and thereby depriving the descendants of Xenophon and Xenophanes of the handsome income brought in by sale of cones and banana splits. "Charlie" says he ... . will,lose over $300 by the break-1 , down in addition to a lot of milk ' /"..." already contracted for which is delivered daily, regardless of whether the ice cream machine is working or not. The Greeks are putting on a dri^k-a-quart-bf-attilk-acday campaign in an effort to recuperate financially. BJ5J2J3JSJSJSI3?SJSfSJSfS13I3/5J5fSJ5?EiSf3JSJ3 ' COTTON MARKET January 31.75 March 31.20 May !___ , 30.75 July 37.70,' October 33.59 December j 32.37