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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-iiass matter at post office iD Aobeville, S. C. Terns of Subscription: One year $2.01 Six months 1.00 Three months .50 MONDAY, JULY 5, 1920 HALF AND HALF. Nearly everybody in the country today is enjoying a rest from the daily routine through which they trudge practically every working day in thp ve?r_ On account of some ad vertising contracted for months ago to appear in the issue of July 5, it becomes necessary for us to see that there is an issue of July 5 and that' these advertisements appear in thai issue. This is unfortunate both from the fact that every one of our subscribers is either fishing or picnicking today and nobody cares much what else is happening in the news world so long as they are having a good time today, and from the fact that we would like to take the whole day ourselves. But the best we can do under the circumstances is to split , the difference and make it 50-50. We are therefore issuing- locay .'jur pages against the customary eight and taking a half holiday. We hope for all our friends just as pleasant 1 outing the whole day as we expect ( to have half the day. I ^===== . i TRAFFIC COP DEMANDED ( We stated sometime ago that a / traffic cop was needed at the crossing ' of Pickens street at Press and Ban- ; ner Block. We had the need empha- . sized early Saturday morning when ( no less distinguished citizen than Col. , Patrick Roche, of Cambridge Road, ^ came near being run over, and by a Ford at that. , r The city council is warned now , that the city is liable in damages for neglect in the management of its streets, rivery nour tms crossing goes without said cop somebody's life is 1 being endangered and the city\ is making itself liable for neavy dam- j ages. In case anybody is run over we i arc handy here to take the case'j against the city, and will have King j Li^k as our main witness. Another thing is that pedestrians should not be required to stand alll day in order to get across this street! at this point. P&clestrians are ., entitled to the same consideration as au-. fcoists, but as they cannot run over] Mhe automobiles and the latter are able to run over the pedestrians, the; riders are taking an unfair advantage' of the walkers. A traffic cop could] cure this hv rpfmirinc tVinr trian cross after each automobile,' thereby securing equal rignts and the equal protection of the laws for ail! parties. A word to the wisfe should still be! sufficient. I _ GREENVILLE STREET. I I A good deal has been said about the street of quality since it was I paved. Even some pteople residing on 1 the street, who are not fully initial' ed, think it is too narrow, while oth-1 e." persons, envious of the people who' rr.ake up the elite of this street, have been heard to call ii a lane. I We hnvp t.viefl t.n Irpcn t>ic> reasons which actuated the city fath-' e:s is building the street just as it is built. It is a fact that some of the older aristocrats on the street actu-i ally appealed to the city fathers asking that the street be made just the width which it now is. It is not out of place now that other streets have been paved to give tiiese reasons. We1 did not give them before for the reason that we knew all the people residing on other streets would want their streets paved just like Green ville Street is paved, while the city needed wide streets in some places, as wide streets are necessary for the . wagons, trucks and other caravans of people in trade. The first reason which actuated the city council in the matter was a dei nre to save the trees. By making the; street its present width the paving oeople were enabled to set the side^ walks back and thus save all the fine # trees on Greenville street. These! trees are absolutely indispensable to! the residents of Greenville street because the people up that way are not accustomed to the sun. They have been in the shade so long that shade is necessary for them, while the people on most of the other streets are so recently from the sun that they do not need shade. Thev fee! more at home in the sun, hence the trees on other streets were cut down. Another thing contributing to the decision was a desire on the part of the city council to make plans for the other residents of the city to see bow Greenville street people behave. For that reason the plan is to plant grass in the space between the paved street and the sidewalks on either side of the street, with all kinds of fine flowers bordering thi? grass, etc., with shrubbery and other attractive plants, and with a bench and a chair here and there along the street. It is thought that this will en-j able the people from Wardlaw street,1 for instance, in the afternoons when' I Greenville street is having a horse show, to go up and take a seat on one of these benches or in one of these chairs, and to see just how! people in society do, how they dress, ar.d how they act. Nothing is so good a teacher as an actual demonstration I of how a thing is done, and the city pminril hplipves tViflt. the nportlp of the town will be greatly educated by^ making this provision for the people of other streets. Now in modern towns, built and inhabited by the new:y rich you will f:nd wide streets, showy houses, red wheeled automobiles, and other things t \ to attract the attention of people of lees refined tastes. But in old settled places where the first settlers nuilt, and where all the old aristocrats lived when they first came to this counL Al 1 1 Ily, Ulty jiau uaiivw saccu, auu mc ? I bouses were unostentatious !n appearance, and- such things were bought as were elegant, but not likely to attract too much attention. These people believed in "quality"/ rather than in show in dress, and in all other things. Now Greenville street was built on this plan, it has always been maintained on this plan,^ and the people who live on It are de-J termined that it shall remain just as ; it had always been?a street of ] <^??>ftaints stand j IjP^PxUnt arid d Save Money! i B , *' You ing- cos fjfl should tho \vi > Moro |fl should M Pai^: & houso ^ hjiv'.t : W/> vviii cc fl lett t< IS * Coo !/jlh paint| Ij ^ost*' /srxi :?. onri'nvr.nsnE l llUl-tLIUU " - li'll'j. These two letters as- Ar,?rD Wk : ?a thot you ?ra A*-kllK 'li'lr. jrettinjr the best paint vnado for the Southern quality. Therefore, we were prepared to get an injunction on the spot if anybody tried to make our street even an inch wider than it had a:v.*ays been. We wanted no street for a few of the vulgar rich to show off their limousines on, nor a street for people to build fine mansions for show, because we have none of these j people on Greenville street. We havei an elegant set of professional and literary men and women on Greenville street, who build and have, and want comforts and conveniences but no gewgaw business. These in brief are the reasons why Greenville street is the width it now! is, and the reasons why it will / al-J ways remain just as It now Is. These are also the reasons why the| people on North Main, South Main,' Wardlaw, and other streets hope1 some day to live on Greenville Street. ? i DRINK ALL YOU WANT The sample of water from city j standpipe sent to Charleston to the ! State chemist last week has been1 examined by Dr. Parker and found to be perfectly good and free from contamination. The results of the analyses are given in detailt in the j official report received by Supt. Townsend yesterday. Sanitary Water Analysis No. j 2357 of Water Received 6-24-20, j from Abbeville Water and Electric J Plant, Abbeville, S. C. Part per Million. Color 10.00 Chlorine * 7.00 Freq Ammonia 0.01 Albuminoid 0.06 Nitrogen as Nitrates 0.00 Nitrogen as Nitrites 0.00 Total Solids 130.00 Bacterial Analysis Bacterial Indications of Contaminationfc Negative. Remarks r^-An&lsfces indiicaSte water to be of good quality and free from contamination. Respectfully submitted, F. L. Parker, Md. MRS. LOTTIE McIVER WATTS Laurens, June 30.? Mrs. Lottie Mclyer Watts, wife of Associate J Justice R. C. Watts of the South Carolina supreme court, died at their summer home here tonight at 7 o'clock after a long illness. Funeral services will be here Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Watts was before her mar-| riage to Judge Watts in 1896, Miss Lottie Mclver, daughter of the late I1 glifteneral SWmar^ flead(juarterr|^S 1] Horn#- oJJudcel.yo^s.AiJanlay ^ , I': j* knowledge of the ris- || | 5t of building- materials, jj . be sufficient proof of $| bdom oi house painting. ? than ever before you m 1 I. la particular that the vm i irr>>i ikp will nrnt.ervfc vour vrflA > ^ r? J t////// from the weather you m ' in this climate. Decay if/h rtainly result if you neg- || 3 protect the surface. W. V iecteo Hygradc House m ' 5 aio best ior ihe South- || j iimate. w {/ \ ' will glauiy furnish color stions and estimate of . , ' m 't//A BUILDING & REPAIR CO. M ARRFVII I P q C t y/\ m. , J. TOOLEDGE * SONS pj ATLANTA. || MMB? I COUN I On JUly 1st of Money i Iingg Depos WE PAY I Better com / an account Count L SOUND , BiiiBiiiiiiiiiiatiii I THE r HZ I Operating Two Mea suits of which we pa tomers. 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