The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, July 09, 1920, Image 1
*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