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Abbeville Press and Banneij
Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C? Wednesday, July 14,1920. Single Copies. Five Cenfai.' 7firi? Yf^r^l
COUNTY SECURES
FEDERAL AID
HIGHWAY COMMISSION APPROVES
APPLICATION " FOR
$54,601.46 TO AID IN BUILDING
ABBEYILLE.DUE WEST
DONALDS ROAD?|5TATE TO
TAKE OVER COUNTY ROADS
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Authority to proceed with the
taking over of county roads now in
the state highway system in accordance
with the general high
way act of 1920 was granted to
Charles H. Moorefield, state highway
engineer, at a meeting of the
South Carolina highway commission
held in Columbia yesterday.
The commission authorized Mr.
Moorefield, to begin the establishment
of state maintenance of these
roads as sooln as possible as the
first step toward actually putting
the new highway act into force.
This is an entirely new scheme in
South Carolina and the results of
the scheme will be watched for with
much interest.
This maintenance comes from the
automobile tax collected each year
by the highway commission and under
the provisions of the act the
commission is planning to soon take
I - over many miles of roads in the
state. Greenville County at present
leads in roads under the highway
.system and it is practically certain
that the first highway taken over
will be in Greenville County.
' An application was received from
, the Abbeville County road commission
for federal aid in the amount
.. of,$54,601,46 for the road to run
from Abbeville to Due West, Donalds
and the Anderson County line.
The application was approved and
\. (, was one of the few applications,
which was approved at yesterday's
meeting of the commission.
First Meeting at Anderson
Another interesting step taken
*; i 'by the state commission is its announced
intention of visiting every
mile of roadway under its supervision
during the summer. The first
of these visits will begin in the
Third Congressional district on
August 2 when the commission will
meet in Anderson and all of the
county officials in the Third district
are invited to meet with the state
commission in that city. From Anderson
.the inspecting party will visit
all the roads in the district after
t
, which the state commission will
move to another congressional district
and so oh until the state is
covered.
MEETING OF DIRECTORS
OF CHAMBER OF
roMMFPrr TnMfiPBnu/
President J. M. Nickles has called
a meeting of the directors of the
Chamber of Commerce for tomorrow
at 6:15 o'clock. The meeting
will be held in the office of the
president and applications which
are now in the hands of Pres.
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- - Nickles from a number of men who
desire to secure the pobinc-a of secretary
of the chamber wi'l be gone
over. Mr. Nickles states that he has
several applications that may 4 appeal
to the directors and urges / a
full attendance at this important
meeting.
The chamber officers had hoped
to have secured suitable quarters
for the organization but due to the
delay by the owners in stating the
rental price desired for the quarters
under consideration, the cham_
Der naa oeen unaoie to make any
announcement as to its permanent
home.
CAN GET CANS
Miss Ruth Crowther wishes to announce
to the members of the County
Home Demonstration club that
the No. 3 tall and No. 1 flat cans
which she ordered for them have
arrived and may be obtained at her
office in the court house.
NEGRO ATTACKS
PELZER GIRL MONDAY
Fourteen Year Old Girl Attacked By
Negro on Pelzer Bridge?Officers
Save Negro From Mob
j Information from Pelzer yesterday
was that James Washington, a negro
had late Monday afternoon attacked
tire 14 year old daughter of a pronri'
nent citizen of that place near the
Pelzer bridge over Saluda river. It
is also reported that the victim of the
attack has lapsed into unconsciousness
which the attending physician?
say was caused by a nervous reaction,
As soon as the news of the attacl
reached the ears of the Pelzer peo
pie Monday evening a large numbei
of them armed themselves and begai
a search for Washington. However
the officers had located Washingtoi
a few minutes before the mob formed
and rapidly spirited the prisonei
to Greenville. On arriving at th<
county jail they were advised by Jail
er Christopher not to stop there bul
to hasten their prisoner to the state
penitentiary.
It was fortunate that the officers
accepted the advice of the jailer foi
in less than ten minutes after thei
departure with the prisoner the firsl
members of the mob arrived at th<
Greenville County jail and demandec
the prisoner. In order to convince
them that Washington was not lodg
ed in the county jail Mr. Christophei
permitted a committee appointed bj
the -Pelzer citizens composing th<
mob to search the* jail.
When it was seen that the negrc
had really been spirited away th<
crowd began to cool off and shortlj
i o: 1 ti IL. _i
| utsperseu. ih was sutbeu -ut uie sneriff's
office in Greenyille yesterday thai
j in all probability Governor Coopei
would be asked to order a specia
j tern of court. (
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BIG DAY AT BETHIA
The congregation at Bethia
church and the Sunday School attendants
are planning a big day
there for July 23rd. There is to be
a general rally among the Sunday
| School people in that community
and a home coming of all the * former
pupils of the Sunday School,
Dr. W. A. Hunter, the Superintendent
of the Sunday School, assisted
by Miss Maud Pettigrew, J. C.
Dansby and others are looking after
the details. Several speeches are to
be made by good talkers on the occasion.
Among the speakers will be
W. W. Bradley, and1 perhaps C. D.
Brown, of Abbeville.
There will be a p;cnic diivier
served on the grounds at the conclusion
of the exercises, and after
that the young people and the old
as well will enjoy the day mingling
together, talking of the good times
'of the past and now. The boys will
ihave a baseball 'game nearby in th?
afternoon, and all the young men
will have a chance* to talk to the
I pretty girls of the neighborhood.
While the people of the neighborhood
are in charge of the meeting,
(the public generally is invited to atjtend.
Big baskets of fried chicken,
olentv of riDe watermelons. and
r ~
j regulation pies and custards will be
en hands. Everybody is asked to
come and help make'the occasion
one of enjoyment.
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SEEING THE COUNTRY
Mr. and Mrs. William Barnwell,
little Julia Barnwell and Benjamin
I Barnwell left Tuesday morning for
lHartsville, where they will spend
j several days with Mrs. R. E. Caldjwell.
They made the trip in their
jcar and will see the country. Mrs.
; Caldwell will return with them.
TO THE MOUNTAINS
j , Mrs. J. Allen Smith, Jr., left
i Tuesday for the mountains of North
I Carolina where she will spend some
I time. She went by way of Fountain
I Inn Where she visited an aunt and a
{cousin.
i Service* At Catholic Church
There will be services at the
Sacred Heart church Sunday, July
113, at 11:30 a. m.
SENATOR E. L
JOINS i
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Senator E. D. Smith Whc
Democratic Conventioi
; beyille County Votei
With Pollock, Wan
testants for U. S. i
100 Hear (
i
Less than a hundred voters of i
> Abbeville County were present in
jthe court house yesterday morning
jSt 11:30 when Mr. W. P. Greene,
11 in the absence of County .Chairman
Howard Moore called the meeting
i to order to hear the speeches of the
| senatorial candidates. Mr. Greene
fjin his opening remarks stated that
i he regretted the fact that so few
-^of the voters of the county were
t( present and attributed the fact
J that so few* of the voters of the
(county were present and attributed
^the fact partially to the failure of
^the county papers to advertise the
^coming of the campaign party. The
^ Press and Banner was the only
5 paper in the county which carried
ijthe announcement of the meeting
' | which was held yesterday.
! in introducing ine candidates
r Mr. Greene took occasion to give
Tthe facts connected with their political
lives and a statement of' their
'experiences ap public men.
*j The first speaker of the morning
'iwas Mr. W. C. Irby of Laurens who
r has represented his county in the
' general assembly acceptably for a
i number of terms and who is no
j stranger to the people of this coun,ty.
Mr. Irby opened his speech by
thanking the voters of Abbeville
|?onnty for the-loyal support which
| they gave him in 1914 when he
made the race for governor. He
stated that he was still fighting for
jthe same principles that he advocated
with all his power then.
,J Mr. Irby stated that he did- not
, I have time to score his opponents
jand if the time was unlimited he
would not do so. He then entered
into what proved to be a 45 minute
speech on the principles on which he
: expected to be elected to the U. S.
? senalte. .
j The speaker scored the profiteers
in no uncertain terms and frequently
referred to a batch of documents
with which he was armed and
gave both facts and figures to sup,
port his statements. He gave the
I figures regarding the per centage of
profits made in 1917 by the packers
^he furniture manufacturers, the
'canners, the steel corporations, and
J the cotton mills.
j Mr. Jrby said that if an Abbeville
County farmer raising perishable
products were to load a car and
start it to New York City or to Chicago
the railroads would sidetrack
the car directly it was out of the
county and notify the big packing
concerns and would await their instructions
before forwarding car.
Claimed that in this way the big
'packers manage to manipulate your
'car of products so that they get it
at theij own price and frequently
your remittance will come in the
shape of a postage stamp and sometimes
you will lose money by ship_
ping'the products. Mr. Irby stated
that we couldn't expect the farmers
to raise cattle and food stuffs
when they cannot get a profit on
their surplus.
The speaker then outlined plans
by which products raised by the
farmers could be handled at a profit
by the government aid in establishing
a packing house in every
county and established a bureau of
information so that products could
be sold at their real value and ' not
at heir speculative value.
Told of how railroads imposed on
| people. Gave figures of the salaries
of big railroad officials. (Jxitcisea
Esch-Cummins bill.
Solicitor George Warren of Hampton
County was the second speaker.
His subject, he said was not a plea
for greater na(tionall government but
a return to the old democratic prin-^
). SMITH
PARTY HERE
>Has Been Attending
i Appears Before Ab- '
s Tuesday Along
*en and Irby ConSenate-Less
Than
Candidates.
ciples mpd Mr. Warren stated an air
ing of the principles laid down by
the authors of the Declaration of In
dependence and of the onstitatioi
might be properly in oi;der. Th
speaker was earnest in his plea fo
full recognition by Congress of state's
richts. , 4
Mr. Warren criticised the passage
of the Volstead act as being iniquitous.
He stated that in the >yes of
the law eVery woman who made a little
blackberry wine or put up fruit
juices for home or medicinal pur
poses was a criminal. He repeated
several times that he was not a "wet"
candidate but cited the fact that he
was the author of the present State
prohibition law. /
. The speaker also went after
Senator Smith's roll call record. He
stated that out of 3100 roll calls in
the past nine years Senator Smith
had answered or voted at only 1773 a
little over 55 per cent. The senior
senator from South Carolina, he said
was absent when the vote came on
the espionage act also when the vote
was taken on the War Risk Insurance
bill.
Some, he stated might criticise his
youthful appearance. "When" said
Mr. W3rrer?, "did the United States
bec^r.2 a place for. pnly the aged and
infirm or a pltrcy to issue political
gratuities?'" The slpeakdr also stated
inadvertenil;*. that Thomas Jefferson
wrote the constitution when was just
his age. The chairman was observed
to shake his head when this statement
was made and at the conclusion of
the speaker's address warned him to
be careful and not to confuse the declaration
of independence with the
constitution. The' chairman added
that while the error1 was noted in Abbeville
that it would not be discerned
in Greenwood.
Mr. Warren closed his speech with
a poetical tribute to everything in
South Carolina from 'a maiden's eyes
to sunsets. The tribute ended,
"And the sunsets are the grandest?
In South Carolina,
And the politics the damndest?
xki uvuvu vaiuiiwa.
Mr. Warren was warmly applaud
ed at the conclusion of his speech.
Senator W. P. Pollock of Cheraw
was the third speaker. He said that
be felt he was no stranger to Abbeville
County or to any other county of
the State. He spoke of the campaign
of 1914 and s^id he believed he received
more applause and less votes
than any other candidate in ^he r'acev
Mr. Pollock referred to the death
of Senator Tillman and said in response
to many - calls from all over
the state he made the campaign for
the short term to which he was elected
by a handsome majority, arid for
which he wished to thank the votera
of Abbeville County who so generously
gave him a nice majority. He considered
it a great honor to represent
the people of the State for the sohrt
term and that he liked the sample so
well that he would like to have at1
least one full term.
The senator stated that during thej
three months he served the people of
this State in the United States senate j
tfhat he had 110 phancfe to make a rec- j
ord for himself but that he aligned!
himself with the majority of the democrats
and assisted as best he could
in upholding the hands of the greatest
living American?Woodrow Wil-.
son. (Some applause.)
Mr. Pollock stated that he read the
Democratic platform as adopted at
the San Francisco convention carefully
through five times and that he
had found nothing in it that he could
not conscientiously support with all
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LOWNDESVILLE .* |
AFTER COTTON MILL
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Industrial Agent of C. & W. C. Railroad
Submits Proposition To
Lowndesvjile People. \ t
V. Collier, agricultural industrial
agent for the C. & W. C. rail?|
road' met, with a committee of thft(
citizens of liowndesville yesterday:
concerning a cotton mill which the
Lowndesville citizens desire to be
placed in that vicinity. The meeting
was an enthusiastic one and the
Lowndesville people are prepared to
do their part towards securing the
new enterprise for their section.
Mr.: CoUier reported to the' citizens
of Lowndesville at the meeting that'
he held an option on 6,000 spindles
from a cotton * mill outside / of the
: state and said that he wished to
place the machinery in a new mill in
the Piedmont section. He also stated
that it was a good opportunity for a
fast developing .town as cotton mill
machinery is hard to buy under any
. conditions.
It. was finally agreed at thte meeting
yesterday that the citizens of
Lowndesyille would raise 100,000
, for the guarantee of the building of
the mill.' When this amount is faised
the engineer of the mill will come
to Lowndesville and plan the erection
% \ * | k
of the buildings to suit the conditions.
The people of Abbeville are veryj
much interested in seeinor Lowndes
j ville make a stajt towards rapid, development
and there will be no.trou{
We in selling a nice bit of stock in
1 the new enterprise among the Croe1
suses of the court house town.
French Memorial #
i for 'live' soldier
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Colored Soldier Near Townvilla
Reported / Dead Is Alive to
Receive Memorial
i
I
j To be alive and well and' receive
an honor bestowed upon ' him for
having sacrificed his life on the battle
fields of France is to be the unusual
distinction of Willie Vince
iITinrv o- /?r?1 AvoA^iov A-f r>oor
living) a tuiuicu cA-ouiuici, U4 ncai
!Townville, when he rjeceives the
French Memorial death certificate
sent to the next of kin of every
^United States soldier who was killed]
j while in the service of tfye country
i in the recent war. i /
1 - King's certificate cam; with the
'others to the Anderson post of the
j American Legion recently, and the
' fact that he is still alive was
j brought to light when it was found
ithat he is working near' Townville
ion a farm and has a splendid crop
[for this year.
j The certificate was received* in the
package in which the others were
'sent, and Commander Glenn and j
I /v 4-V??/\ -C 4-Ua A mrtvi'nor? T a n n Tirflrn !
I Uliicis ui tile Auiciican xjcgiuii tiwiv i
at a loss as to what to do with the j
: certificate. It was to be awarded to j
!the next of kin of the supposed!
!dead man, and as the man is still j
I alive, there is some question as to
the propriety of presenting it at
'all. However, it has about been decided
to send the certificate to the
colored man, that served his counItry
well and who has ibeen reported
idead by the war department.
| The " certificate will be ,.sent to
j the'negro within the next few.days.
CLUB ROLLS CLOSED JULY 27th
I
A glance at the books of the enrolling
committees of both the local
democratic clubs shows that ap?
jproximately 400 voters have al_
I ready enrolled. It is necessary that
your name appears on the roll before
you will be entitled to cast
your ballot in the August primary, j'
The book of Club No. 1 is to^ be 1
found in Capt. Perrin's office and
No. 1 is in charge of Sheriff Burts. i
The final day on which you can
enroll is July 27th and you had better
see to it that your name goes on
the book of your club before that]
date.
TO BLOWING ROCK
Mrs. Addie McMurray left
Tuesday for an extended stay at
Blowing Rock, N. C.
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ALLIES REJECT j
GERMANS'PLANSl
DEADLOCK REACHED ON Cd^.JS
QUESTION ; AND^ MARSHALS vj|
FOCH AND WILSON ARE 1
MONED TO APPEAR BEFORE |j
CONFERENCE?GERMANS AND J
BELGIANS FIGHT. ||
Spa, Jttly 13.?A deadlock has been ' jl
reached by the allied representatives -J
and the Germans on the coal question
and Marshal Foch and Field Marshal.
Wilson, the allied military chiefs, Jj
nave again been summoned to discuss.^
possible enforcement measures. ; 'tfM
The allied premiers, having been I j
informed that the Germans were \.J|
ready, called a meeting for
o'clock this evening, instead of t6*"?a|
morrow, as planned this nforning.'
The German reply was not acceptable^. ^j
and the summoning of Marshal Foch jHjlj
and Field Marshal Wilson, it is mider*-^|n
stood, means immediate measures tO; :
enforce the treaty unless Germany v];|Sj
modies her attitude. .d
The German foreign secretary said ;JS
to the Associated Press: ^
May Itau* Order.
"The Allies may, under the treaty* ]
give us an order concerning coal, SH
they, give, an order* we, of coorsa-x^a
would try t<? satisfy it. But we do 1
not believe we could. That wouli not. ^jl
be a voluntary cooperative arrange-''.|M
ment." , I..:J|
The secretary! expressed the
tude of the German delegation- as-, it :j||||
> 4avii/*V%^ fWo fllliar)
IB WlAJ?X*l/y UUV V?*V . UVIV^WVVH . |VM
hope before they take farther meee^ ^|j
ures that the' Germans may change "|ffl
their decision. \ ^ r|
Dr. Simons said Jlate tonight that
the Germans had nothing to add to
their coal proposition. He regretted ,''jm
exceedingly the position taken by the'' ||S
Allies and said that the German? most -JM
simply await further action. . .1
M. Millerand, the French premier,
said he regrets that it is not possibly
for Germany to cooperate with 'thev.-;%B
Allies in the execution of the treaty, \,<J?n
but he is firmly resolved to" stand on, ,-'39
the position now taken up. J
German and Belgian Fight. ^Jj
Spa, July 13.?Some of the mem-.
bers of the German delegation have _ J
complained to Chancellor Fehrenbacb
qf aggressions of which they claim to J
have been victims since their arriyal '.S
at Spa. One journalistic attached to ^
thf. fiprman1 delegation came to blows-'
with a former Belgian officer whose.
house he occupied at Spa during th?
war. "-|j
MUCH FUN AT CAMP BARNWELL /fl
The Boy Scouts of the Abbeville fja
Cotton Mill are enjoying all the > 1
pleasures of camp life in the real ;]
tents which have been pitched in j
rear of the community house. .The ]
Boy Scouts, number 33 at the mill and yjja
the pitching of the army tents and j
laying off c# the camp grounds has ;|9
aroused considerable interest in the
worthy organization. Mr. Roscoe, :^aj
scout master, is in charge of the
camp which has been named ''Camp L jsj
Barnwell" in honor of the efficient -J
manager of the mill. Camp
Barnwell will continue in operation *!
until the weather becomes too cold r |
for comion. '1 1
WILL INVADE GERMANY? ^
A dispatch received over the cot
on wire directly after noon -today
tates that invasion of Germany it [
being planned at Spa. The French
iray is prepared to more at call. '
ierman delegates flatly refuse to
meet coal demands of the Allies.
Wi?il Inlfnl S3
COTTON MARKET '-3
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January 31.4ft
March __T 30.68
May 29.85
July ...1 41.35
October 3^.08
December 32.30
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