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*f . -r 'V. r-\"J-2 u ; V : *f. ; . ? . . Abbeville Press and Banner | " " Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. Friday, July 9, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year. , EVERYDODY BUSY AT COUNTY HOSPITAL! HAD APPEARANCE OF REAL JOHNS HOPKINS THIS MORN ING WHEN REPORTER DROPPED BY FOR LATEST NEWS.? , FIRST REAL OPERATION PER FORMED YESTERDAY. The Abbeville County Memorial hospital presented a scene of bustle aud activity this morning when a rep-' xtsentative of The Press ana Banner! * J * lstnet npw<S frMTl sxoppeu 111 UU gel. wit m>voy 1 the superintendent. Doctors in Klu Klux costumes minus the flaming cross and nurses in their immaculate white were all astir and jne woul< have imagined that Mayo Brothers or Johns Hopkins has been transplanted on a magic carpet and set down in the city. The scene presented at the hospi-' tal this morning was an entirely different one from that presented at the' opening exercises last weex. The hos-1 pital has assumed an air or strictly, business this week and signs and no-1 tices tacked about tell you just what ' hours visitors are welcome and what hours they are not. Then it begins to, smell and feel like a Hospital. We suppose that the distinctly ethereal pungency?pertaining to the anaes-j thetic?not the celestial?is of a necessity present at all "Houses of Healing" as the "pounding commit-, * tee" prefers to call hospitals. It may, be due to this ethereal saturation of the air that gives the uncomfortable feeling that is experienced by the novices when they first begin to visit hospitals. Anyway it is present at the County hospital just as much as it Is at EeUevue, New York City. ;:We were told that the first real operation took place yesterday and \ the first patient to undergo a major operation in the County Hospital was q pnlnrprl woman. Bessie Frazier from Greenwood county, who was operated on for some abdominal trouble. One of the doctors told us tne name of the operation and while we are supposed to be A-l spellers this technical name, a foot long, was a bit too mjach for us. The patient was brought over by Dr. Turner of Greenwood. Unfortunately Greenwood is unable to care for colored pat:en:s In the city hospital there and it is falling to the lot of the County Hospital here to take care of the colored patients from Greenwood and McCormick counties. This is going 10 mean con siderable crowding in trie colored ward but the hospital authorities definitely state that they are not going frk rocpive a cinclo nntipnt. mnrp t.Vinr* they can comfortably accommodate. I Dr. Nardin of Anderson was down yesterday also and received a num-' ber of throat and nose patients. He will return next Thursday w?ien he has sufficient cases already to keep him busy all the afternoon. Dr. Rakestraw, surgeon as Pryor's hospital, Chester, is in the city today doing some major work at the hospi tal. The doctor to whom we talked at the hospital this morning, speaking for the directors'of the hospital ask | eJ us to state that there* was no close! corporation about the management of the County Hospital and that any doctor or surgeon in good standing practicing within the radius of the^ hospital was perfectly welcome to bring or send patients to tne Abbe j ville institution and each would be accorded equal privileges. I The cook who was busy in the clean kitchen says that tue patients haven't lost their appetites and that the nurses also are not what she would call small eaters and that some fresh vegetables, chickens, eggs, but ! ter, milk and the like would be ap-^ preciated. The hospital is prepared to pay for these things if you insist but there is nothing in tne by-laws i forbidding the cook accepting them gratis. Miss Sallie Gossett Who has been I ORGANIZING BRANCH OF THE AMERICAN COTTON ASSOCIATION Miss Lois Ervin, field secretary of j the South Carolina branch of the South Carolina branch of the American Cotton association is to be in the county for the next two weeks put-J ting on a campaign for enlarging the ( membership and organizing each township in the county for the cotton! association. Miss Ervin who is work-^ ing with County demonstration agent W. A. Rowell will hold a meeting in J each township in the county during $he next few weeks. All farmers, busi-J ness men and all others throughout the county who are interested in cot-' ton are urged to attend one of these' meetings at least. The meetings will be full of interest and of particular importance in successfully organiz-' ing the Abbeville County nranch of the cotton association. Miss Ervin who addressed a number of the farmers of the county at ( a meeting in the court house this morning proved herself to De a splt'n-J .did and enthusiastic speaker and her| address was timely and sparkling with wit and humor. Her jokes are all ne\t, and each one illustrates a vital p..int which she wishes to drive home to the( farmers and business men of the county. SENATOR MOORE WILL MAKE RACE I i Senator J. Howard Moore stated to a representative of The Press and Banner this morning that he had definitely decided to make the race for solicitor. Senator Moore states that he not only expects to make the race hut that hp exnects to win. It is due to the pressure brought to bear on the senator by his many friends over the district that influenced him to make the campaign after having stated he would withdraw. * 1 I The decision of Senator Moore to make the campaign makes it a three cornered race with H. S. Blackwell of Laurens seeking re-election and T. Frank McCord of Greenwood and Senator Moore'of this city opposing him. MAN ELECTROCUTED AT WARE SHOALS Jessie Claude Brissey, manager of the ice plant of the Ware Shoals Manufacturing company was instantly killed WednesGay afternoon about five o'clock while attempting to nx sometmng aoout tne electrical motor at the ice plant. Mr. Brissey was 26 years of age. He was a native of Donalds, being survived by his father, William Brissey of that place. Heisalsosurvived sey of that place. He is also survived , by his wife and one small son. ! PLANS ARE BEING DRAWN FOR Y. M. C. A r The Abbeville Cotton Mill has em | ployed Mr. James C. Hemphill, of Greenwood as architect for the Y. M.1 C. A. building which the mill is to erect on South Main street. Mr.! Hemphill is at work now making ' sketches of the proposed building. VISITORS FROM MIAMI. Mrs. J S. Fleming and three chil-1 dren, Albert, Mildred and Joyce, of Miami, Florida, are the guests of Mrs^ W. P. Wham near the city. Mrs. C. C. Fleming and Master Griffin Robertson of Columbia are also visiting Mrs. Wham. j OFF TO FLORIDA Renwick and Willie Bradley, two I cunning young sports of the town, left [ Wednesday for a trip to Florida.' They met Rev. and Mrs. Henry Press- j ley in Winsboro and will visit themI for some time. They expect to eat a! "plenty" of oranges. community nurse at the Abbeville cot-J ton mill has resigned that position and has accepted a temporary posi-j tion as night superintendent of the County hospital. Miss Edna Shearer is also very obligingly assisting at the hospital temporarily. PLAN OF GERMANS j NOT APPROVED i ! Berlin Would Reduce Army To One Hundred Thousand Men In Fifteen Months. Spa, Belgium July 8 (By the Associated Press.)?The German plan for progressive demobilization to 100,000 men in 15 months was presented to the representatives of the allied gov-( ernments here this afternoon and was declared unsatisfactory to the allies, j The allied demand is for immediate destruction of 12,000 cannon, which the allied commissioners ?n Germany have under guard, together with 50,000 machine guns. Germany desires to destroy the guns at the rate of 1,-' 000 a month. The allies hold that this is not sufficiently rapid ana express fear that the machine guns will fall into the hands of insurrectionists. | TVio mili+orw ovnorfa r\T hntll Opr. lumvui. J V/k|/V? vw w* wv?*? | many and the allies began an examination of the German plan immediate- j ly after adjournment of the confer-( ence at 7 o'clock this evening. Imme-j diately after the conference, Premier Millerand declared to the correspondent it was not essential that there be complete accord between tlie allies, and that Germany had found that accord existed. The first evidence of this, the French premier said, was when the allies declined to discuss disarmament in the absence of the responsible German authorities. Speaking of the coming iinancial conference in Brussels unaer tne aus-| pices of the league of nations, M.1 Millerand said it would taxe place on the date originally fixed, adding"Am-' ericans will be there, you know." i ?' I RETURN WITHOUT PREACHER. A. B. Morse, R. S. Link and W. L. ^ Power, the committee sent to present the call to Dr. Edgar G. Gammon of Hampden-Sidney, Va., from the Presbyterian church returned Wednes-' day without the preacher. Several ^ had predicted that this committee would bring the new minister back with them. Mr. Link states that they were charmed with Dr. Gammon and that he believes he Is the very man the congregation should nave as their pastor. He states that Dr. Gammon would not commit himself but that he would consider coming to Abbeville to preach one Sunday for the Presbyterians under certain conditions. It will be quite a disappointment to this congregation if they do not secure Dr. Gammon. OPEN AIR SERVICES *' v ! The services every night being held ( on the lawn at the Presbyterian' hurch by Rev. M. R. Plaxco have been! a pleasure to all who have attended.' The attendence has increased each i night and the people have listened 1 with pleasure and profit to the ear-| est and instructive sermons by the j preacher. The services will close Sabbath night with a union of all the churches at ( which Dr. Moffatt, President of Er-j skie will preaqh. A good choir has helped all week | and special, singing may be expected Sabbath. PATIENTS GET THE NEWS A friend of the patients at the County Memorial hospital stopped by The Press and Banner office yesterday and left two perfectly good dollar bills with the request that we send The| Press and Banner to the County Hos-j pital for a year. It is a pleasure for, us to thus provide "all the news that's fit to print" to the patients at the, hospital. We hope they will enjoy reading about their friends from eve-' ry section of the county. We have no objection to the pret ty nurses reading the paper too. "" i LEBANON MEETING. The Lebanon meeting, which is growing in interest, will continue| through Sunday night, not omitting Saturday nigTit. Mr. Smith will preach Sunday morning on "The Ideal Christian Home." The hours are 11 a. m. j and 8:30 p. m. The pastor urgently | asks that all who can do so come and hear Mr. Smith. CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION , AT GILGAL CHURCH I Will Be Held^Saturday, July 24th.? ^ Rev. Mr. Trajrwick Will Make Address of the Day W. F. Radcliff, of the Gilgal section was here today making arrangements for the cetennial celebration to be held at Gilgal church - Saturday,1 24th, inst. Mr. Radcliff is a member of the committee looking after the' details of the monster gathering which is expected at that time. He tells us that the celebration will be an all day affaffir, with exercises in the morning at 11 o'clock and at some convenient hour in the afternoon.! Dinner will be served on tfte grounds' and the members of the church and! others will be there prith well-filled baskets of fried chicken, ewo story J pies, all kinds and varieties of cakes,1 well baked biscuits, and other goodj things to eat. The committee is alsoj considering serving a ha*fc dinner on the occasion. Rev. Mr. Traywick, the oldest living former pastor of the cnurch, has been heard from and has accepted the invitation to deliver an address on that occasion. He preacnec! for the Methodists at Gilgal in the years which have gone and knew the men in that community, when peop:e were: good, at a date which Is now only, history to most of us. His talk will be' wen wortn neanng, ana nis oia friends in the church will look for-j ward with great interest to his coming among them again. The public generally is Invited tot attend the celebration and to partake qf the good time and the good dinner^ which is sure to happen. All members of the church and their descendants are especially invited to De on the grounds where for a hundred years tne giaa uamgs nave Deen< aeciarea by servants of the Master. ' i MISSIONARY PAGEANT ' I MAKES BIG HIT The missionary pageant, ''Tired of Missions," which was presented as part of the entertainment for the Ladies Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church by the members of Circle No.1 4 yesterday evening on A. M. Smith'3 lawn, was a wonderful success and its novelty as an entertainment feature for missionary societies was unique. | Miss Margaret Cox as the teacher, Miss Annie Wilson as a motfern society bud and Miss Carolina Chalmers as a Chinese lady were especially good in their respective characters, j A splendid attendance was given the pageant and entertainment of Circle 4 and delicious refreshments were served during the entertainment A quantity of ice cream and cake was left which was sent to the patients and nurses at the County Hospital. SELLING CHEAP COTTON 1 | John H. Sharp, one of the.prosper-' _ . _ I ous farmerrs of the county, was in town Thursday. Incidentally he brought along four bales of cotton which he sold for 43 1-4 cents per pound, a little less than 1.89, but which netted him $1014?21.- This This sounds like a pretty fair sum of money but then we do not see how the farmers can raise it for that .and attend all the picnics and political gatherings this summer too. Besides when can we find fault with the country if we stay at home and work all the time? BLUE HILL SOLD. Cleveland & Williams have sold their Blue Hill property to Dr. S. G.' Thomson. This property was bought by the sellers in 1910 and subdivided. A good many lots have been sold, but most of- the property passes to Dr. Thomson in this trade. The purchase price was not given to us. . DR. J. S. MOFFI^TT TO PREACH SUNDAY J < Dr. J. S. Mogatt will preach at the < Presbyterian church Sunday morning ; and at the open air service that even- ; ing. DR. McMURRAY ELECTED MEMBER EXAMINING BOARD I At the final business session of the Pharmaceutical Association of South' Carolina held on the Isle of Palms yesterday afternoon, Dr. C. H. McMurray of this city was elected a' member of the state examining board of pharmacists. S. C. Hodges of Greenwood, was elected president of the association) for next year and Dr. T. Pope Young of Greenwood was elected d*st vice' president. Dr. and Mrs. McMurray are ex pected to return from Charleston to-' day. ^ PROFESSOR ARNOLD IN CITY Prof. J. E. Arnold who was princi pal of the Antreville scnooi last ses sion was a visitor in the city yesterday. Prof. Arnold has ceased to b a pedagog and the profession there by is the loser for he is one of the few old time school masters who' knows how to interest his pupils and, he gave the Antreville folks .a good school last session. Mr. Arnold says that he has one of the finest crops? yes, he is a honest-to-goodness farm-| er now?that can be founcr In the' Antreville section and if such good fortune keeps up he doesnt ever ex pect to desert the plow handles for the rod and book. He says that from' Antreville to Abbeville you can' hardly find a blade of grass fn the1 crops and he doesn't ever remember, seeing,cleaner crops. The Antreville trustees have been fortunate in securing an excellent Drincinal for next vear. Misr Eliza beth Cathcart of Winnsboro, a Se-' ceder and a graduate of Due West Woman's college, the two qualifica-' tions that always command success, j BODY OF LIEUT. LONGSHOR? ! ENROUTE TO ARLINGTON ? ' i Mr. E. H. Longshore of this city received a telegram from the Graves Registration bureau this morning that the body of his son, Lieut. Furman B. Longshore, had been shipped from Brest and would arrive at New York about July 16. In accordance with the father's wishes the body of Lieut. Longshore will be buried in the national cemetery at Arlington, Va. Just so soon as the body reaches Arlington Mr j Longshore will be notified and wil leave for that place to attend the burial. Lieut. Longshore was "the only son of his father and saw mucs active service on the Western front being with the Fourth division at ChateauThierry during the fierce fighting in the St. Mihiel salient. Lt. Longshore had been transferred to the 369th infantry and was on his way home when he contracted influenza at Brest from the effects of which he died in the fall of 1918. . LINK STILL KING. - I There had been some talk of de posing S. Jenner Link as King of the Press and Banner block up until yesterday but the prospective deposition is all off now. The king !s more kingly than ever. Even Paul Kennedy,' Jr., heir apparent to the throne, has not a chance to be crowned before the natural course of events takes place. King Jenner has done away with that rusty old Auburn with the ventilator in the top and Is Ignoring his humble subjects as he rides by in a brand new Auburn Beauty Six. The pew Beauty Six is the cause of the king's coming back into favor with his serfs. So long as no other king outshines King Jenner his subjects will be loyal. The old Auburn' is gone! Long live the King! TAKING A VACATION Miss Pearl Hagen, the accomodat-j ing cashier at Rosenberg's is taking j a vacation and is spending the time! among her friends in the city and j :ounty. Miss Annie Lee Hagen ofj Clinton and J. G. Hagen of Columbia j i sister and brother are in the city j and all three are enjoying their va-j cation together. ( FARMERS WANT COTTON GRADER . at meeting of farmers of . : the county held in court house this Morning motion prevailed to employ cotton grader this season,?' mr. seifert makes address A meeting of the farmers of Abbeville County was held at noon today in the court house and was well at- ''tft tended by fanners from every township in the county. The farmers had been called together by county dem onstration agent W. A. Rowell to .V i1 hear an address by E. C. Seifert, .. head of the bureau of markets of this state. Mr. Seifert delivered A \\?$ timely address to the farmers and V , urged them to employ an'official cotton grader or classer for ine next season. Mr. Seifert is a native or Geogia but for the past three years has ( been employed as the official cotton grader for Orangeburg . County where, he has made state-wide repu'tation for himself as the fanners' frfend. Recently Mr. Seifert has been appointed the head of the bureau of markets in this state which has entire control of the appointment of licensed cotton graders for counties 1 within the state. These graders who are sent out to counties desiring .them are under the' civil service commission and have qualified by competitive -v * V > examination as official graders of cotton. ' ~ County demonstration agent Rowell who was chairman of the meeting put the question up to tne farmers present whether, or not tney desired to employ an official grader for Abbeville County and whether they were ' willing to go down^into thedr pockets ' to pay for such a man. There was - practically a unanimous vote for the i. ~-C 'j? ?j ciuyju^uicub ui an umciBi graaer sua Messrs W. A. Rowell. R. E. -Cox and J. S. Stark were appointed to canvass the city and Messrs. W. M. Agnew and 0. S. Cochran were appoint'.V'jfi ed to canvass their sections of the county. Other appointments will be made tomorrow by the county agent. The plan on which these commit- > tees are working is to secure 60 men who raise cotton or who are interested in the marketing of cotton * vf to sign a joint note for $3506, the responsibility of each indorser being limited to $70. It is their idea to pay the official grader a salary of $3000for twelve months of his time and the balance of $500 with the appropriation of $350 which the government and Clemson College makes will cover whatever expenses are incurred during the year. There will be a charge of 35 cents * 3 per bale for grading- the cotton brought to this market ana If 10,000 bales are graded during trie coming year the note will be canceled by this income. Last year there were 28,000 . bales of cotton marketed in the county. At least 15,000 of these bales were marketed in Abbeville. So the estimate of 10,000 bales for the next season is quite conservative and it really is to be expected that a sur- V 'j plus will be created by the charge of 35 cents per bale. . ' f Much interest was manifested on the part of the farmers present and the whole question was thoroughly threshed out before they made the decision that an official grader for the county was what they wanted. The first of these meetings will be held at Donalds Monday evening at 8 o'clock. The second at Central school house Tuesday atternoon at 4 o'clock, and at Antreville Wednesday. <l2J2jgj2J2jgl2l3J3fSISJSI5ISJ3J3J3ISJ3IBjSI3JBW COTTON MARKET Jan. ? 30:30 Mar. * 29:68 May 29:03 July 38:90 Oct. 32:63 Dec. 31:01