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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. ? The Pre^s and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second .lass matter ax 1 post office in Aobeville, S. C. 1 Ter. ns of Subscription: * One year $2.(Hi .! Six months l.Ol) \ Three months . .50 n WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1920. ' f\ WILL LANDS GO LOWER? 0 i There will be .instances where'v lands will sell at less prices than have n been paid for the same lands in the a past. Some men buy property f6r a 'n ? particular purpose, which purpose is b abandoned, and then the property fc' 1 r ' 1 sells for its re^J market value, which q l is less than the price formerly paid. There will be times of financial stringency when lands are forced on the market and when prices will be , much lower than prices theretofore paid. ^3 But generally speaking we do not SU ovnpft to seo lower oricea lands in ^ V ""r - 7 I3( this county. The course 0/.events is not i-hat ,way. A great deal of land * . has changed hands in the last two , 1 ah years. Much of it has been bought ,, ti< and is held by speculators, it may be admitted. But these specula:ors are making money on the land by farm- . ing it as well as by selling at higher IS ; prices. They have in most instances paid as much as one-third of the pur- ^ chase price, and another payment will'be due the present fall. The . to* price of cotton which enabled them ^ to pay the-first*>ne-third will enablel t])em t another third, or at least a good paymertti The lane's are thus Ol firmly held. The people who hold the | ;i ~ mortgages are not pressing the del-( tors. There was an abundance of money in the South last year, and se: there would be still much money As here if the cotton in this county were W; sold. When the present crop is put on St tfi? mnrkot there will be much more sui money, and it mult be invested. se< And there will not be so many an p.aces to make investment* th'u fall. isal f>-' The people here like real estate mort-' gage as security for money loaned. As long as property is changing ffr [, * hands new investment securities of thi this kind are offered but when there is no trading there are no new mort- usi gages to buy, and no persons to lin whom money may be roaned. For that xeason there will be money this fall Gr seeking investment, more money of bu this kind than last year or any pre- an ceding year. Ta r, South Carolina produces about one-half bale of cotton to' the acre. ^"T(: At twenty-five cents per pound this ea cotton will bring one hundred and twenty-five dollars p?r bale. The seed so if \ will>sell for enough to pay for the,en fertilizers and cotton lands may be an let to gpod tenants, who- furnish^0' . their own stock andl farming implei, ments, for one-half the product of ye the farm, the owner furnishing the "" fertilizers. If a crop of eight bales of m< cotton is produced tp each one horse S1C farm, the income to the owner of the lands is about two hundred and fifty ^ dollars for each farm. If only half *e' the lands are worked there ts still a ro return of one hundred anci twentyfive dollars in money for every one ^ horse farm. In addition to this there is other income in food products ar which would easily run the income lor each farm up to one hundred and 'e fifty or two hundred dollars per su farm nak'ng a one horse' farm worth 0' en a s;ven j :: cent bas s from two -r thousand to three thousand dollar.'. ?I And seven per cent, is a good return * oil mc ley when much money is seek 1 :g investment. , c: Besides the business of farming in this section is just now. coming into ^ own. The t'me war, when lands were allowed to wash away and oth- B ' -1 -? orwl tVinf b( C i* IcUICl.S Were nvaicu, c*?*v4 v*?M. "turned out" was counted of little fi value, but the lands liave all been cleared, and there is no way to meet *' the demands of the growing: popula- 1< tion except to farm on a more inter.:-ive system, and in this way reduce ai the number of acres to each one's* horse farm. The use .of Mgh grade m fertilizers is making the land produce more and more each year, while H modern machinery is enabling plant- S e-rs to reclaim the poorer lands and ai make them productive, thus iijcreas- tj ing the yielding value of all lands, t! and giving the price an upward turn, a! 0 V ' x ; For these reasons we do not e3 ect to see lands lower than at pre: nt except in brief periods of pan; nd financial strain. The people c his section evidenced tlieir pow( nd disposition to "sit steady"' * i 911 wlien there was less money tha t present, and their sitting powei avc been considerably strengthene i the last few years. We still advise the young man 1 uy land and to hold it. True a goo eal of land is owned by people i he towns but they have prove herr.selves good farmers, and i lany cases real leaders in' the farn rig industry. They do not want t ell in most cases, and besides ai ioi-e able/to hold than a great mar thers. We have brought the West .1 ,'hich the young man Was told befor ow to go to the doors of our peopli nd there is abundant reward for tJi lan who tills the soil, and there wi e for many yeai's to come. HAMPION BANANA EATER RESIDES IN GREENWOOI The record for banana consumti an has been made for Greenwoo* r B. 0. Bowers, of the Index turnal mechanical force, who con med five dozen in 36 v hours jwers is not a large man, but h< ems to have a big weakness fo: e famous tropical fruit, and i: ile to surround a considerable por >n of a bunch at one time. Hi; cord at one sitting is now twc zen, with- the promise of that be g broken when the next car loac sold at favorable rates. Wher lestioned as to how he felt since 5 feast, his only comment on the bject was, "I believe that I ate a many of them."?Greenwood urnal. , _ j.*JR UNDEVELOPED SUMMER RESORTS "In a "sarment'f deliveredfat the ssion of the South Carolina Press isociation her^ last year, Doctor atts Ball, editor of the Columbia ate, urged the development of tnmer resorts in the mountainous :tion of the Piedmont region. In editorial yesterday he struck the tne key: "A trip to the mountains costs ice as much this year as it cost re years ago?and much more in it cost last year. "Western North Carolina, is, as ual, overrun with Sotfth Caroians, Georgians and Floridians. "The mountainous regions of eenville, Pickens and Spartanrg counties, where are such peaks d precipices as Caesar's Head and ble Rock, are not less picturesque in the most delightful parts of >rth Carolina. But they are not sily accessible. Hence, South rolinians contribute a million or each summer to the support and richment of their neighbors? d they get their money's, worth, - - - The venerable doctor is correct, t within a few years there will be jre general development of sum;r resorts in the mountains on this le of the line. Development oi iris Mountain is under way ani ere will soon blossom an ex nsive summer colony. Bettei ads are to be built to Caesar'! ead with the inevitable result tha' at famous resort will be visitec '-thousands yearly. Anderson met e preparing to build a good roa< om that citv to the Casher's Val y section which should develoj immer "watering places" ii conee. The projected railroa< oni Brevard to Pickens shoul< >er. up ap almost unused and un aveiced section <.?f "the South Caro la Alps. At least two summe donies, one with a spacious lake e planned for the upper part o ie Highlands of Greenville. Not far off the day when Docto all, instead of floating: a snial jnd issue for the. privilege of usir.; 11 get' bowls and hearing the ric *" * rr\ I T it in ten-dollar-a-uay iar n? iverns, can find complete comforl :-st, recreation and enjoyment a ;asonable cost in modern inn nong the sapphire hills of his o\v; veet native soil.?Greenville Pied ont. * And while on his way to Caesar' ead thp esteemed editor of Th tate might stop off for a few day t Groggy Springs, Abbeville Cour r and provide himself with a jug o le elixir of life which flows i bundance from this famous spring - C- It will add much to the pleasures of s-vthe editor's vacation to saturate his ie sysem with the product of Groggy >f Springs before venturing over the i ;r highways of Pickens and Oconee.! n The Pierian springs have nothing on n old Groggy or the "minnal" spring rs at Calhoun Falls for 4hat matter. IN ON THE CLEAN UP 1 ' ? ! ^ First Lunch Hound: "Well, old' strawberry, howsa boy? I just had j ^ a plate of gxtail soup and feel j in >??? " ^ Second Counter Fiend: "Nothing ^ to it, old watermelon. I just had a -o x - . ! plate of hash and feel like every-1 y thing." i ! ;o EXPERIMENTS TO FIND e. WOOD PULP SUBSTITUTE e, mate Requirements of Inie ' U Notning YeODeveloped to Approxij creasing Demand For News Print Paper > Washington Star. ) Confronted with figures which show that he United States depends - on foreign countries for two-thirds :1 of the raw material which goes ,into - the manufacture of newsprint - paper. Uncle Sam in recent years has developed a decided wrinkle 2 across the middle of his forehead.' r For upon the supply of ne*.v7pn;:t s depnds the lives of thousands of . news publications. 5 It was only in the last fifty years j ) that paper manufacturers abandon-! . ed the use of straw, fags and wa~te __ 1 material for the composition of ! large quantities of newsprint .The ! > discovery paper f:\tn4 p.*H > wood could be made at less than . one-half the cost of paper mar.*.: I facture from these waste, materials tlc brought about the birth of indus. TV t.riPQ nnw in pnf.t.incr Hnwit 1 j ,,v " v..5^bv? ... ?? " " forests of trees for their conver-|mi sion into newsprint. j 11 With the characteristic attitude} of Americans toward the future, . , , fa trees were cut in the east and lake so: 1 state regions with such abandon that what promised at one time to [ be a never-ending supply h*s y dwindled to nothingness, compared , L 1 ' with the demand. * Alarmed (bveti 1 what the future has in store, the government is experimenting with j ^ substitute materials for the manu1 facture of newsprint. < . -j-H How To Meet Future Demand* 1 j Results shown so far convince of-, || ficials of the government that the j 1 real solution of how to meet the j ^ future demand for newsprint in this, = / r.jin+vtr Hoc in fV>o MilSPrVfttion of -l~i forests, development of new forest'j?| lands in the Pacific northwest and>g ' southeastern Alaska and the per-1 If petuation of forests already cut in U I L? the east and lake states. 'But such steps need large gov- j S ernment appropriation, and con- H gress in its last session failed to ' H make provisions for the enterprise je So in the meantime the bureau of j M chemistry of the" department of jg ' agriculture is going forward with g experiments to discovelf a 'substi-||? 1 tute for wood pulp. 1 , There ave several substitutes un<ia **" ' =""' ' der test at the bureau now, but they.H '' are kept secret until it is definitely . g k proved whether they are practical " ' This is doe to protect the public, g " for the discovery of a substitute in' J r paper manufacture is a 'gold mine,' j|| 5 and false alarms always lead to J t "gold bricks." i : ;| MICKEY SAYS: 3 f VJEU.-TH* PfcPEfc'S OUT'n VJE GOT ^ j 1 OOT ON T\ME'CAUSE AU-THCOP^ I [0 I \NAS E.ARVX Ni NOfiOOVS BEEN \ j ?f :1 VM T' tsfV^KE CK HOLLER,BUT SEVERAL I ' 1 J PEOPLE CftNNE ftPTER p^eo^'u PAtO I !g FOR EWN AFEUERSMOHEHftoJ I BEEN REfcOm' ?A\S NE\GHBOR.'S A i - PfkPE^'M lT \N AS SO GOOD WE GESSEO : J r HE'D HAFTA SUBSCRIBE *N THEN' i| fV LftON CO>AE \N 'n SMO HER HOS- j a ? BJVNO HftD GOT W\o.O'N STOPPED / '? f The p*peb bvjT -Then coulonjt A j I ? G\T ftLONG >N\THOUT IT SO SENiO '.T [ J ? ^in,n' Then The phone rankt I jg r | N ftMOlC-E SMOj'TtkKE OVjT tAN ftO- > ( 1 II 1 The HOGr \S SOLO 'N I COULD H&NE I ? SOLO A. DOiEN isAORE" 'NJ ft. LETTER, = SAXD^THE PAPER. \S UKE A LETTER. ^ h PROhA HONVE" *N VAJE GOT A B\Gr ) | li , I HOOK PULL* OOe?\NOR.V<>'h4 1 AIN'Ty J: \ 1+.HV ft* MOBODN \ J g ~/SS\ r i A - ? ' ^ * X . . * . Keep Yoi THE practice of carryii noniic crime by a write (lie best ways tu.increa et.s weekly and to place This is good advice, substantial amounts in carries, the more he is 1 The above is good who follows it will h tected against the ti: Begin right now, d Per Cent.?Get the ] the Counl LET YOUR MON G. A. NEUFFER, President ALBERT HENRY,v Vice-Pr SOUND Experimental with substitutes : r pulp wood is nothing new. But : cently the price of newsprint has sen so that the cost of its produc-'^ >n from pulp wood nfears the cost manufacture, from substitutes, lis has encouraged tests for^ new,' iterial. ( Not Sufficient Quantity 1 ^ v 1 i. iic inici vi1111culily in Vuc junuu- -j cture of newsprint or any other < rt of paper from substitutes for i lp wood is that the substitute i nnofc be found in sufficient quan- i y per unit area to compete with 1 e amount of wood pulp found in < e same area. While there are my substitute* from which can be < | We're Se | Have You = 4 I X i THIS 1-4 OFF SALE I *o miss Better Coir Prices this Fall will I j yourself now. Lots I $10.00 Suits $12.00 Men'; $15.00 Men' ^20.00 Men'i $25.00 Men' $30.00 Men'i I $35.00 Men' I $40.00 Men' $45.00 Men' I $50.00 Men' g |55.00 Men' $60.00 Men' $7.50 Boys S10.00 Boys $12.00 Boys $15.00 Boys 117.50 Boys $20.00 Boys | ALL OF OUR REY I OXFORDS AT 1-4 < ?. STRAW HA 55 I PARK == . ^ ' * ' - *: . . ... ? : . / ur Dollars \g large sums of money in one' r in a financial magazine It is se production1 and reduce price the money in,the bank. With wages larger than ever, i their pockets than they did her ikely to spend. i logic and gQod advice, ave a comfortable time me when adversity or ol leposit your money in tl habit and keep it up.?C ty Savings EY EARN 5 PER C ' R. esident. ' P. i 1 ' r ; .SAFE made newsprint resembling- in every respect the paper which . comes from pulpwood, the cost of production ranges from 50 per cent of manufacturing paper from wood Pulp For thirty years, for instance the department- of " agriculture has" tried at various times to manufa^ ture paper from cornstalks. It suc:eeded in manufacturing paper ffom cornstalks, but compare the amount of pulp in a cornstalk to the amount in a tree, and the difficulty becomes apparent. There are more :ornstalks available every year than there are trees^but the proless of centralizing the industry ?p? lling Lots i Bought Yoi ' ' A : OF SUITS AND OX ie in Today. >e high. Don't deceive of Suits in this sale hea^ MEN'S SUITS 1-4 Off /.... s'Suits 1-4 Off ........ . s Suits 1-4 Off s Suits 1-4 Off s Suits 1-4 Off 3 Suits 1-4 Off ...'....:.... r s Suits 1-4 Off s Suits 1-4 Off s Suits 1-4 Off .... s Suits 1-4 Off s Suits 1-4 Off s Suits 1-4 Off BOYS' SUITS Suits, 1-4 Off n.-.'j.-. i a r\?P k5UllS, ?-<? V_/1I Suits, 1-4 Off Suits, 1-4 Off Suits, 1-4 Off Suits, 1-4 Off NOLDS, WALK-OVEE r\r> nroin AD DD jr r ur i\LuuL,m\ i jn TS AT HALF PRIC \ ER & R / " V \ . I: f ; ' i -;f . ). fjt- j I . ; \ ' * ' <. f * ' .. \ ..... te cank that fays * 5 9 )pen an account with n XX' 11 Bank ' .r V :ent. for you. 1 - ' E. COX, Cashier. In E. Bf^LL, Ass*. Cashifer. B.' SERVICE ? (and gathering these stalks would be more than double the cost of the present method. ' Not long ago thei'e appears I ?, ' publication an article dealing tvitfi ^he discovery of okra stalks as a |substitute. If all the okra 3ta!ks in . the .United States could be made into paper the supply would be ' , ^ negligable compared with the demand, government officials say. HOUSE ^7T^7AT.VES. ?,? * 4 ' . ' . . . 'jP We are authorized to announce , Thomas A. Putnam as a candidate I for the house.of representatives and -> r.V, he pledges himself to abide the re- incnaJ I suit of the democratic primary. a wmmmmmmmm -ym of Suits! | I in v' irs? ' b 1 W FORDS is too good j? r#.' yourself. Protect ry enough for winter, jfg Hp \ , $7.50 ' V ... . .. $9.00 > ? . $11.25 ' B ....... $15.00 | ;| $18.75 $22.50 m | S2R.25 ' M t $30.00 i $33.75 ' 1 $37.50 .A 41.25 $45.00 $5.63 ' Is ...... $7.50 $9.00 $11.25 $13.13 $15.00 lS and DOUGLAS jj ICES. m E- I EESE | ??