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Established 1844. w THE PRESS AND BANNER m ABBEVILLE, S. C. a, i i - ir The Press and Banner Company ol Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-'?iass matter at vi post office iD Aobeville, S. C. n Ter 0? of Subscription: gl One year 12.00 tJ. Six months l.oi I sc Three months \ .50 , pi __________ WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1920 c ; fil THE COAL SITUATION. ffi 1? ' -. I ei The coal situation does rot improve. " The railroads, or some of n them, are disposed to call the coal miners black, while the coal miners 1 .return the compliment. Whatever.er the trouble, and whoever is responsi-j at ble for the present status, the re-| or suits to industry and the people gen-;cc erally are the same?there is no coal.1 w No doubt the great development of | the last few years has overtaxed the to railroads. The roads were in the J111 hands of the government during the^ ce war period and of eoui-se in that period there was little expansion in " br equipment. While cms was true wim the railroads it was not true with V1 business. The high prices offered and demanded for all kinds of raw and manufactured products have stimu- ^ lated production everywhere, with Wf the result that much more freight is being offered the roads for transpor- ac tation than heretofore, while the Wi money received by the people in the ei way of profits has enabled them to *? travel around to see the country to P* an extent not heretofore practiced. ?* But there are some remedies which Si' may be applied. The coal miners . [p say that one of the chler oastacles * in the way of securing coal cars is the fact that brokers and speculators are buying cpal and under the orders permitting reconsignment of the pi cars, these cars of coal are being resold many times before they reach C< el the ultimate consumer. A car Is tfl bought by brokers in Knoxville, we cc in Chattanooga, and is reconsigned will say, it is .sold to another broker ? when it reaches Knoxville to the Chattanooga purchaser. When it C< ?ooa1ioo PViattnnnnfffl it. has been re sold to an Atlanta broker, and is reconsigned to him, and tnus the car ^ wends it weary way for weeks, when if it had been sold directly tj> the ^ person or corporation who actually uses it finally, the car would have w reached its destination in ten days, 01 been unloaded and well on its way . . . w back to the mines. In the time it ^ takes to carry it from one reconsign- ^ ment point to another, and then on'xj1 to others, it might have made two or three trips from the mines to consumers and thus might have per- ^ formed two or three times as much ... . . . o\ service as it in fact does. , cu To prevent this waste of carrying ^ capacity the Interstate Commerce nc Commission has J?n or<^er that mj ? tai v'J cuai can recons?gnea uu. j)nce after $he initial shipment. This) *V is good so far as it goes, but the^ coal miners say that there !s no rea-|ge son for even one reconsrgnment, an and the original consignee should be m. forced to unload the coal at its origi-' ^ nal destination, and thus put the car a back to work for the consumers in-, stead of making it the instrument of speculation, and thereby contributing to the extortionate prices now1 bein? demanded and received for ccal. If the people are so convinced they have the privilege of writing to the Interstate Commerce Commis- m' sion at Washington complaining bf ?the practice and asking for a further 8'1 I I, oraer preventing ana ioruiucung re* consignments of coal at all. ' te Anothe^r thing which makes a scarcity of coal cars is the use of l'1 these cars for hauling-other kinds of freight than coal. All kinds . of cli freight' hurrying to its destination in order that the people may make rt' a little more profit whiYe me( getting "v is good is being loaded into these c-al cars and is being1 carried by them over the railroads. This praclice may he forbidden by tne Inter- v/ state Commerce Commission too. h? The people who buy coal should af buy from retailers wno ouy airecc -from the mines or should memselves vv buy wholesale from the rr.r.ies. The rrpractice of buying from, brokers is c: but stimulating them in the effort ^ to corner the coal market and get jiafits entirely out. of proportion to 11 I hat is reasonable anG Cair. The ax-keting conditions of the countrj re responsible for most or our ills i coal and in cotton, as well as ir ther things. A COTTON GRADER. Mere than seventy men in Abbelie County have signed an indemity bond in favor of one of the inks of this county which is tc uarantee the payment of, and pay le salary of a cotton grader to be ;nt here by the United States De> irtment of Agriculture In connecon with the proper authorities al lemscn College. An office is to be tted up for him iind every facility ven him for the grading and prop marketing'of cotton. ' CiJrto /vf Viawnftff rA V*a ouiiic iuca vi wuc utututo iv ut uv ved from the employment of a ader may be had when tne difficules cf marketing cotton are consided. At times, as everyone here)outs knows, there is not more Mian le or two buyers on the Abbeville itton market. These men do not ant fcotton at all times and many mes will not buy except, wnen cotn may be had at a sacrifice. Many mes they are' not in the market for rtain grades cf cotton at all. For instance, one day last week a rmer residing near Abbeville ought six bales of cotton to Abbelle. Three bales were of a good ade and three were of a lower ade. He was told by the buyer that e lower grade of cotton was not mted, but that price of twenty?e cents was offered. Not .caring to cept the price offered^ the cotton as hauled to Greenwood , where ght cents per pound more was paid n- the lower grade, and three cents ?r pound more for the iiigher grade cuikon, ueiuiig me xaxmer someing more than one hundred and xty dollars over the price offered Abbeville. With a grader here this cotton ig'.:t have been olTereC 10 ouyers I over the country, and still higher rices might have been obtained. ? ? ? II that the farmer would do in sucl ise would be?W>.. write to buyers sewhere sayinjjtyjtet lie iiail a certin number of^Hftof one grade, a ;rtain numberap#>ales of anothei fade, and so oil; jind he might mak< le sale without having zo naul hi: )tton to find out what fie might ob tin in other markets. Again, the farmers might pool a undred, or seVeral hundred, bales I cotton and say to a cotton mill e will sell you a certain number ol lies of cotton^of a certain grade id the trade might be made for the hole before there is any hauling shipping. In this way the mil] ould not be called upon to pay ir the services of a buyer nor even a grader for that matter, because e cotton could be marked by the ader here, and it would by elemiiting this expense add it to the price Fered for the cotton. The mills all rer the country will be able to sere an adequate supply of cotton in is way and the number of buyers iW employed by the mills can be aterially reduced, while the broks can be dispensed with largely Many other advantages wili sugst themselves to those vviio read d think. What we need is better irketing facilities for cotton, and e employment of the grader is but step towards getting results. AN EXPLANATION DUE. We don't know who is to blame for e failure of three of the speakers appear at the meeting cf the fart;rs held in the court houstJ yester : > T>.c committed in charge had ven notice for the past two weeks ;ic J. A. Evat\s?, director of the exnsicn work in the Southern States, VV. Watkins, assistant director of is work at Clemson College and B. arris, state commissioner o-f agriilture would be the three principal eakers at the meeting. This paper ceived thy information from what considered a reliable source and ivertised the fact that these genemen would be the main attractions the Abbeville meeting. But they ere not present and no explanation is been forthcoming from anybody > to why they did not tuinn tneir igagement here. The farmers who ent to the trouble to attend the eeting are at least entitled to an cplanation from somebody why the iree "big: guns" were absent. We ive heard several of the gentlemen resent at the meeting express them , selves as feeling that they were at , least entitled to know why tnese men . did riot shew up. It's poor policy in j our opinion to promise people a thing and then neither give them that thing nor any explanation why tlie promise was not fulfilled. J. J. DARLINGTON'S ESTATE VALUED AT HALF MILLION ? ! ( T>.e National Savings and Trust! company, Annie C. Darlington, and! , Elizabeth D. Simpson, executors of I th$ estate of the late Joseph J. Dar-j lington, prominent lawyer, who died | . last month, today filed a petition fori ( the probate of his will. Mr. Darling-J t ton left an estate valued at $500,000! consisting of $335,000 personal prop-| erty and real estate worth $165,000.; By his will, dated November 24J [ 1916, arid modified by codicil of . January 28, 1920, he provided sun.'dry personal and charitable bequests amounting to over $40,000, j and in addition to annuities created by the will. Mr. Darlington left the { ; residue of his estate to the National; . Savings and Trust company in j I , trust, to pay one-half of the income j I to each of his two daughters, Miss P Annie C. Darlington and Mrs. [g Elizabeth D. Simpson, during their j lives, together with such of the, principal of his residuary estate as | may be reasonably necesary for the maintenance, support, comfort, best j interests and happiness of them or j of those dependent upon or claim- j ing under them.?Washington Star. J , NITRATE OF SODA KILLS FOUR HOGS John Turner, a farmer living at Helena has learned something about nitrate of soda that he thinks he ought to tell his fellow farmers.; Two days the first of last week he j ; was engaged in putting tT?&- nitrate j in his fiells to make the crops i grow. He was in his shirt sleeves j ; while at work, wearing one shirt the! first day and another shirt next , day. Friday, Mrs. Turner put the i shirts in a tub containing about 15 i gallons of water, left them to soak . awhile, and then wrung them out. , She turned the tub over to let the water' run out. Some of it ran into a ? pen where there were four hogs? 5 three of them shoats weighing about - 150 pounds. They all drank of the j , water, and all were dead in 30 [ " '"" oi. TW*. Tnrcnv cqvq Vio WOlllH I illlllUUCO. iUi* X 14A.WA4J. WMJW ??. ; not have taken $75 for the sow.? , News and Herald. |1 \vuvvvvuuu i ! V V rV ENROLL TODAY. V [ V V ' V Five more days are left in V : V | which you can enroll to vote Vj ! S* in the Democratic election Vj V this year. CI V TTrilpss vnn Pntoll hefore .Tulv Vl V 28, you cannot vote in the ;V| V Democratic primaries for V V county officers, solicitor, V Congressman, State officers, V' v and United States Senator. If vl - .. . w J v you fan to enron on or De- x> V fore July 27, the last day for VJ V enrollment, you will lose your V' V vote and your voice will not V1 'V count In your government, x V. Every Democrat's duty :s to V1 ' V, enroll now. Go to the enroll- Vj V ment place in your voting Vi V precinct and get your name^ vl V on the book TODAY. . Vi vvv vvv V\ww\\v\i , ,n ! I . I I f IS TW* GASOUNeN j I \N TV*' tk.U"fOMO&\UE OF feVJSt- J I [NESS 'N ^W\S PtKVtt \S tW / j V_ SEUF-STftVL-rEW. \ ^ J I 1% ^ \ Fools And Th The okl proverb says, ;A are soori parted." This rs America's greatest when people pa'H with (heir irii ' wastefully. I These spendthrifts are lar the high cost of living because 1 ! the cost of high living. I- "Fools and their money ar the thrifty save and have. Don't be like those referred to above. NOW, or at least a dollar will not bu; Ithis time. But the time will come; a: when a dollar will be worth a hundn has the dollars then, will be on "eas H will be well cared for. Begin to Sav< I your money in the COUNTY SAVING and receive 5 Per Cent. Interest Con Dollar ppens an account and then yo fast your account will grow if you wi week or every month. WE PAY 5 PER CENT. ON SAVIN Paid every Quarter?January, April, County Savi SOUND SAFE ffi I COM] j? I Saturday tl 1 rti S Your last chance to I ffi of our 2 0?lo; discount 71 1 K jjj jfi If you haven't alrea ffi visit we feel that we ffi time worth while by m w mm Hi ffi jfi I PHILSON & 31 a FSfiKffilfiSififfiSlfiifSfiWSfiSffiffilfiSlfllfiffi! liC ieir Money B fool and his money H x^ Hi folly-year?the year v * ^1 'y~ oney recklessly and ) 'gelv responsible for H they eagerly advance ' ' B e soon parted,"' while S| R I ! Money is not worth much y very much of anything at * i nd that in only a few years, -ft id cents?and the man who W >y street," and his family || e Right now, and deposit b iS BANK I ipounded Quarterly.' One u will be surprised to see how ill add a small amount every fGS DEPOSITS. \ July and October. :-i ' L ngs Bank I . SERVICE I ' I' ' , ? 1 i 1 IN G ? i ? ( i| i I rk>i>l Hi tie Z4tn s I '' take advantage s SQ i i sale. S ? idy'made us a jfi ffi ' ' can make your jjj coming Now. jjj 31 Si HF.NRY I 4 I * > ' ? . ;