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Abbeville Press and Banneifl
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CONSTABLE GETS
Ml STILI
^ FORTY GALLON COPIER STILI
1 ,:t IS CAPTURED BY CONSTABLE
A HUCKABEE IN JEFF BOW
MAN'S PASTURE. CONSTABLE
INFORMED OF LOCATION B1
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EIGHT YEAR OLD JOE
TURNER
Constable J. M. Huckabee ol
Lowndesville brought in to th<
Sheriff this morning a 40-gallon cop
per still which he captured yester
day afternoon on a small branch i i
Jeff Bowman's pasture near Lown
desville. None of the operators ol
the illicit contraption were fount
about the still but two barrels o!
mash ready to run were destroyed
The worm was not found with th?
boiler and it is presumed that th<
moonshiners removed that part oJ
the distillery after making the rur
of the night.
Little Joe Turner, Jr., a lad oi
eight, who father lives on Martir
Boles place deserves the reward foi
the capture of this still. Yesterdaj
afternoon Joe appeared in Nance
and Mann's store at Lowndesvilh
and asked thee rowd in the store ii
any of them was the sheriff. Joe addressed
the question directly to s
man who was delivering a trucl
load of Coca-cola. The "dope" mar
promptly denied any such honor
Constable J. M. Huckabee happened
to be in the store and told the little
man that he was the sheriff and
asked him what his trouble was. Joe
replied that he could tell him where
there was a still if he wanted it.
Mr. Huckabee told Joe that was his
I \
, business so the lad stated that there
was a big still in Jeff Bowman's
pasture.
Mr. Huckabee asked Joe if he
uraa mmo annnarh fr? crn with him
n?*? ? ? ??
after it. The boy said he was. So the
constable and Joe got in an automobile
and started for Bowman's pasture.
Mr. Huckabee said when Joe told
him where the still was that the action
of the crowd in Nance and
Mann's store was similar to the action
of a covey of partridges when
they are flushed. The telephone began
to ring and several of the customers
left off buying goods and
disappeared and most of the others
present suddenly remembered) urgent
business elsewhere. The constable
states that he knew then
there would be no one about the
still when he got there.
i
As he predicted when he and Joe
arrived at the location of the still
on a small branch in the pasture
everything was as silent as death.
But the still was there hid in the
hm?Viwnnrl with two hnrrpls r>f mash
just right for a run that night. Mr.
Huckabee says he never saw a
gamer boy than Joe Turner. While
the constable was busy overturning
the still, Joe was emptying mash in
the branch. After the still was dismantled
the lad and the constable
lugged the heavy copper boiler hali
a mile-to where the automobile had
been left.
There is a reward of ten dollars
offered by the deportment of internal
revenue for. anyone who in"
forms a revenue officer of the cor
rect location of a itill and an addiv
tional reward of $40 for each conviction
resulting from such inforY,
V
mation. In this case, thoueh. Mr,
, Huckabee is a state constable and
not a revenue officer so the government
will not pay any reward tc
Joe. Mr. Huckabee says he is going
to see that Joe gets ten dollars ii
he has to pay it out of his pocket.
SERVICES AT BEULAH
Protracted services will commence
at Beulah Sunday, August 8,
Details of the deaths of 361,854
French soldiers are unknown.
AN INTERESTING
PLACE TO VISIl
Abbeville Coca-Cola Plant Modern Ii
Every Respect?Mechanical Bottle
Washer?24 Bottles of
"Dope" Every Minute '
The plant of the Abbeville Coca
Cola Co. on-East Lane street is on<
* of the most modern in tne country
. A visit to this plant when you ---an
. sure you won't get in the way of th<
busy folk there will be interesting.
The machinery, like the Linotyp<
: machine, seems almost to posses:
brains. Everything that can be doni
without the touch of human hand
is done in the Link plant. The bot
f ties which have been emptied 0!
' their contents by thristy customer
1 at the various cold drink stands ar<
' placed in pairs, bottom side up, oi
1 an endless belt which carries then
" first through a boiler containing t
f mixture of acid and boiling watei
i which absolutely cleans <ne bottlei
P nAi^a/tf)v onr) olftnop unfll flip Hirf.
UtIU MiViig ?? *v>* vuv ? *? V
strong acid kills any germs whicl
i may have taken up their abode ii
- the bottles. Without any lost motioi
f the chain carries the hundreds o1
* bottles on through the rinsing ma
chine where all the acid solution :i
f thoroughly washed off by the jets oJ
i sparkling, clear water.
t The belt carries the bottles fron
r the rinsing machine past the bottling
i machine where at present Herbefl
? Whaley presides. Herbert is conp
r> A Anf iiiflNvlini
[ SlUCiaviJ ill VAC <?uvrpw IU
. bottles at the rate of 48 a minute
i than he is in juggling "amo, amas
: amat" in a 45--minute period undei
i Miss Turner. He bottles, with the aid
. of the machine, 24 bottles of sfcfl
1 drinks each minute and handles eacl
. bottle twice in the operation.
I Young Gilbert Nabers is kept buss
s moving the freshly-filled bottles away
! from the machine. Gilbert and Herbert
make a good team to put the
i proper amount of gas in anything.
The "dopes" are never touched
i with the hands except on fffte outside
of the bottles and sanitation and
, speed arevthe working trademarks
of the Abbeville Coca-Cola plant.
KINARDS, S. C., TAKES
PALM FOR GREATEST
INCREASE
Newberry 'Town Shows Increase in
- Population of 819.8 Per Cent
In Ten Years
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Washington, Aiug. 5.?KSnards,
in Newberry county, S. C., with an
increase of 819.8 per cent in the
last ten years has shown the largest
rate of growth of any place in the
south, having a population of 1,000
or more, thus far in the fourteenth
census. Kinards in 1910 had a population
of 166 while its 1920 census
issued today shows a population of
1,527, an increase of 1,361 in the
10 years.
Townley, Ala., with an increase
of 561.3 percent and a population
of 1,554, and Miami, Fla., with an
increase of 440.1 percent and a
population of 29,549, rank second
anl ?hird among southern places in
their rate of growth.
REVIVAL. AT SHARON
Revival services will begin at
Sharon on Sunday afternoon, Au
gust 8th, at four o clock. Singing
will be led by the pastor and the
preaching will be done by Rev.
James E. Ellis of Emory University.
The meeting will continue
through Sunday August 15. After
Sunday there will be two services
daily, at 11 o'clock in the morning
and eight o'-clock in the evening.
' The public is cordially invited. \
ORR'S RIFLES' REUNION
>
[ The annual reunion of Orr's Regiiment
of Rifles will be held at Due
West, August 18th and 19th. The
customary hospitality of the Due
West people will be extended to
these brave old veterans and it is
hoped that every one of them will
be able to attend the meeting.
. Judge A. R. Ellis has charge of the
reunion arrangements.
r Candidates For (
Hean
Candidates For Solicitor
; tention By Audience o
Tame And No Mud S
And Moore Both
By Hon
9 p
! The candidates for congress from A
1 the Third District and candidates for o
" solicitor from the Eighth Judicial f
^ Circuit spoke h^re * today at the s
3 court house at 11 o'clock. The audi- o
l I
" ence averaged probably 300 when J 8
1 the candidates for congress spoke but t
1 at the conclusion of the second can1
didate's speech 50 or more left the
Hoi# a dnTon Tnrtlpq Wprp
1 preSent. The county chairman, J. H.I 0
3 si
Moore being one of candidates for
1 solicitor the meeting was presided 1
1 over by Hon. Wm. P. Greene. I
| The meeting was without special ir
terest all the candidates passing^1
compliments and throwing bouquets J1
* at each other and save for the scoring
by Mr. Bradley of Congressman 01
Dominick's record during the trou- ^
1 bulous days of 1917 just prior to en? Sl
W gt
' try of this country into the war and
h | 2|
during the months following, no at- .
tacks were made by the speakers on 13
' the other candidates. '
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W. W. Bradley of this city and
. candidate for congress was the first
m
I speaker this morning ancf made a pa? ^
. triotic speech declaring himself in
{ favor of ^he Federal Reserve Act, ^
the Farm Loan Act, and of Wilson's
cc
. policies. Mr. Bradley then <ti3cussed _
J the war and scored the record of
r 1S(
Congressman Dominick .for having
voted against the entry of tnis country
into war, the draft act, the press ^
, censorship' bill, and declared that if
it were possible Mr. Dominick would ^
i like to change that record. In con,
elusion Mr. Bradley stated tliat Domi
. re
inick was going about tlie district ^
saying that he was already sure of
reelection but that his cocksureness ^
was only the whistle of a scared boy ^
as he passed the country graveyard ^
and was expressed to keep his cour- rg
age up. , lQf
Fred H. Dominick, congressman re
from this district seeking reelection ^
followed Mr. Bradley and stated that
when he was elected four years ago gr
that the only promise he made was pj
to see that every citizzen oi his dis- pj,
trict was treated alike and that no stl
favoritism would be shown any in- ^
dividual or set of individuals. !S3
Mr. Dominick stated that he stood to
on his record and explained the pre- sti
vailing circumstances when ne cast ho
his vote on the important measures Ja
cited by Mr. Bradley. The congress- re
man stated that he was scored two in
years ago on the same counss as Mr. pe
Bradley was fighting him on today in
and that the people of the Third Dis- se
trict placed the stamp of their ap- al
proval on his record by returning cii
him to congress with a gooa majority, to
Said he was opposed to granting al! or
the veterans of the world war a bo- so
nus of som^ $5,00 or $600 and was co
glad that the Abbeville post of the pi
vrur liru/ci dy crnor
<11*4 f T tf U f f a W
Frank E. Harrison, Jr. has opened
a new jewelry store in the store room
just below the National Bank of Ab- ^
beville on the square and is rapidly> 4
filling his store with new goods in .
til
his line. Mr. Harrison has quite an ^
attractive store and h&ncrsome new ..
fixtures. He proposes to carry only
reliable goods and goods of good
quality. Mr. Harrison is the oldest ^
son of Dr. F. E. Harrison, president
of the Farmers Bank and is an Ab^*1*
beville boy who has many friends
throughout the county who wish him
IWJ
every good fortune in his new busi-l,
.ds
ness.
Mr. J. S. Ashley of Jacksonville, I
hs
Fla., who is visiting his nephew, ,
i hi
DeWitt Hall, will stay here for a
month visiting friends and relatives f]
hroaghcut the county. w;
I
Congress
i Here Today
Also Given Close At
f 300.?All Speeches ,
Hinging.?Bradley
Well Received
defalks.
Lmerican Legion had gone on rec
rd as also being opposed to a bonu
or able bodied veterans. In conclu
ion Mr. Dominick asked the voter
f Abbeville county to give Bridle;
ome votes as he did not want Widi
0 feel too badly after the election.
Candidate* For Solicitor
The candidates for solicitor fol
>wed and Mr. T. Frank McCord, nr
ttorney of Greenwood was the
rst of the three speakers. Mr. Mcord
said that he felt much at homt
1 Abbeville County as he was bom
id reared two miles from Hodges
list over the Abbeville line. Mr
frCnrri marie a cood SDeech and
utlined carefully and impressively
le qualifications necessary to inire
a pood solicitor. 'He leaves
rerything in the hands of the citiens
t9 decide whether they think h<
the logical man for the place.
Senator Howard Moore of Abbelle
was the second speaker and
ive a resume of the stewardship as
ember of the legislature both in
? capacity of representative and of
nator during the past ten years
5 has served the people of his
lunty. Senator Moore also made a
>od speech and said the only promb
he ever made* in a political camlign
and the only one he ever exacted
to make is that he will do his
ttyas his conscience guides him
id with all the ability with which
( is endowed.
Solicitor H. S. Blackwell of Launs
was the last speaker. Mr.
lackwell stated that he a native of
bbeville county and that he has
others, a sister and a father still
tizens %f old Abbeville. The Solitor
was very plain in his remark*
garding the failure of the people
thisNcounty to render information
gardinj* the so far unknown ? par;s
who were responsible for' the
)rrible death of .1 negro, Mark
nith, whose body was hacked to
eces and thrown in the Savannah
/er last summer. Mr. Blackwell
ated that he had been unable to
ring any indictments in tbia caae
lely from a lack of information as
who committed the deed. He also
a-ted that there had been nine
>micides in Abbeville County since
nuary 1, 1920. He stated that the
cord of his services as solicitor is
lmutable and will show that in 83
r cent., of the cases he has tried
the Third Judicial District he has
cured convictions. Mm. Blackweli
so stated that this was tne only
rcuit in the state where the solicir
was being opposed for his secid
term and that he thought if a
licitor had mad a satisfactory rerd
in his first term that the peoe
should reelect him to office.
ENGLAND PREPARING
A news dispatch received over
e cotton wire at McDowell & Co's
Bee at .12:30 this afternoon states:
'Great Britain has began prepare>n
to Intervene in behalf of
-I- 1 1! ' iL_ U _j
jim.au, AccvrainK 10 mo juvcnin^
ews. Steps are |being (taken for the
obilization of the British Navy on
war footing, the newspaper stated,
ovornment is reported considering
lling volunteers to go to Poland."
Henry Dominick of Newebrry
as a business visitor to the city toiy.
%
Little Miss Josephine Barnwell
is returned from a month's visit to
er grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A
hompson in Pell City, Ala. Mrs.
hompson returned with her and
ill spend two weeks in Abbeville.
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LINEMAN FATALLY < ' v *
INJURED AT WATTS I
I Henry Walker, Jr., Crashed By
Falling Pole and Dies Later In
County Hospital From In
juries Received
" ;,V"
A fatal accident occurred ? near
Watts ^station Wednesday morning J "
when Henry Walker, Jr., y.youngi0;.
' lineman in the employ of the> Western
Union Cp., was caught by a
falling telegraph pole and suffered
. a fracture at he base of his skull.
The young man never recovered
. consciousness after the accident
3 and lingered until noon , yesterday
. when he passed away at the Couns
ty hospital where he had been taken
j immediately after the accident.
} The lineman was new at the work
and in some way failed to dodge the *e
falling pole which struck him on the 0'
nirio of >114 -fnpp ninninc his head to
the ground. His fellow workers
1 state that they had no idea he would
5 live until they could get him to the m
hospital. t' 1 h*
! Mr. Henry Walker, Sr., of *8
1 Merry Mount, N. C., father of the
1 young man was notified by tele
graph of the death of his son and th
I ' '*
1 the body lies in Harris and Calvert'^
" morgue waiting instructions from all
the family. ' on
1 The body was shipped to Merry Bi
Mount, N. C.,-on Seaboard train No. eij
6 this afternoon. Be
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NEGRO SHOT NEAR. *o
SEABOARD SHOPS Po
1 sis
Dock William* Hits Henry Jackson kn
In Pi?tol Duel At Home of Rom su)
Williams Lute Lkst Night. Jack- Wc
ton in Critical Condition tio
Dock Williams, a colored hand in
the employ of city street force, vi<
fought a successful pistol duel about pa
110 o'clock last night with Henry if
i? ? ii f i 'ii
jacicson, anotner negro, at tne nomejoe
j of Rosa Williams, on the Warrenton jvi
road, near the Seaboard shops, Do
where Jackson lived- Seven or eight
shots were fired only one hittng the pH
mark. This bullet, fired by Dock, evi
pentrfcted the stomach and intes- Wj
tines of Jackson, who is today lying i.ij
in a critical condition in the County as
hospital. Dock took flight on a ne
southbound freight train directly
after the shooting and has not yet FC
|been apprehended.
A dusky maiden was the bone of
; contention between the duellists.
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SHIP CARRYING 782 "LOST" ' vi
CHILDREN ON LONG TRIP So
, \Dr
San Francisco, Aug. 5.?The sec- i.'ig
ond lap of the long sea journey Re
from Siberia to Petrograd was un- Gr
dertaken today by 782 refugee Ruf- f0
sian children-when the/.' Japanese jroi
liner Yomei Mar, chartered by t"ne|Ja<
American Red Cross and designa-|Mi
ed as the "Children's Ark," weighed |y0i
anchor in San Francisco bay and j?pi
steamed for the Panama Canal. , jpa^
Thee hildren arrived here Mon-iFeJ
day and were guests of the city and foi
the Red Cross chapters for three act
days. the
Thee hildren, several of whom alo
were sai^ to be offsprings of nobili- litt
ty, became separated from their ruri
parents early in the world war. the
CENSUS STATISTICS ^
Washington, Aug. 5.?Streator, *?v
Ills., 14,779, increase 526 or 3.7
percent.
Asbury Park, N. J., 12,400, in- ^
crease 2,250 or 22.2 percent.
Santa Ana, Calif., 15,485, increase
7,056, or 83^ percent. >
North Tonawanda, N. Y., 15,482,
increase 3,527 or 29.5 percent. |mc
|of&
ON A PLEASURE TRIP Th
Ba
J. T. Clinkscales and John T Do
Stokes, of Monterey, passed through foi
the city Wednesday en route to the
mountains of North Carolina. They ^
will visit Hendersonville, Asheville
Waynesville and will return via
Charlotte. They made the trip in
their car.
Mi
Rev. Edgar Kerr of Newberry is Oc
in the city visiting Dr.and Mrs. C. De
A. Milford.
I
HE SITUATION ~ j
GRAVE AS IN 1914 j
JSSJAN MARCH UPON WARSAW
JROGK^ltlG STEADlg:^
LY~^NG ^WICWLS AN^|||
DIPLOMATS IN LONDON UN- -M
DISGUISED ANXIETY IS FELT : 'M
OVER THE RUSSOfpUSH
OUTLOOK.
London, Aug. 5.?Among British JlB
0 rials and diplomats of other na- ./j|a
his here undisguised anxiety is Xj|
It over the Russo-Polish situation. ($jM
tie high official said:
"The situation is as grave as that ' :M
August 1914." \
Satements printed by extremists
swspapers here that Great Britain ^
is threatened to declare war v $SJ
;ainst Soviet Russia if the Bolshek
advance into Poland is not halt
i nave not Deen connrmea in an- w
oritative quarters.
While it is generally agreed the '<|9
lies are taking an emphatic stand v ,
i the terms sent by Earl Curzon,
itish secretary of state for for- ' *|j
pi affairs to George Tchitcherin,
rishevik foreign minister on * :|||
ne 20, when he stated that if the ' . Ja
riet government made war upon
ilish people the allies would
t the Poles nothing reliably ^ is
own which would justify the as- )%^j|
raption that such assistance ''jUffB
luld take the form of a Aecl*ram
of war, with all such a declara- V$S
m would involve.
Tn rmnrt/?T* liprs th(* '
*?is takin **the "? "riIlclI.
weapon against the BolsheViki,
it is decid.ed to oppose them, will
tfie blockade, and that the Polqs 9
II, if possible^ be given supplies.
>ubt is expressed however, as to /'3|
; possibility of conveying
es to the Polish army in the
ent that the Bolsheviki iapfctrre '
arsaw and close the corridor lead- ,, wa
f from Poland to Danzig. In thiij '
3e a blockade might be the only VjM
ians of helping Poland.
>RD OVERTURNED ON ,
SOUTH MAIN STREET
A Ford touring car bearing Vir- l| 'j||
lia license number 80299-1920, -' Ja
erturned this day about noon, on ' -\i|S
uth Main street near thtf horn* of , }j
. Penney. Jack Gregg, adrertis- :
f agent of the Atlantic Coast
alty Co., of Petersburg, Va., and \eenville,
N, C., was driving the v$jjg
rd down South Main street. As he 'sj
inded the curve in front of Capt. y' Jl
:k Perrin's, Mr. Gregg, who had
ss Mary Bruce > and another
ang lady in the car with him, M
ed the big mixer1 belonging to the
zing force blocking the street. J
aring that he could not, stop be- ;Jj
e striking the mixer, 'Mr. Gregg 1$
:epted the alterative of stopping ' - M
! Ford against the embankment
ng the street. This he did but a .'M
:le abruptly and the Ford overled
pitching the young ladies and
s driver out but injuring no one
1 _1 5 At. - X -1J -V s 'jStM
l damaging me irusiy oiu roru
?htly. Had. Mr. Gregg continued
rerds the big mixer the accident A
iht have been serious.
lMPAIGN meeting at
BARMORE SPRINGS
Mr. R. L. Barmore of Donald^
ihes us to announce that the
eting of candidates for county . ^
ices scheduled for Donalds,
ursday, August 26 will be heldi at
rmore Springs near the city of ;j
nalds and will be an occasion also
a big: picnic.
COTTON MARKET
nuary 29.47
irch I 29.10
ly 28.65
itober 32.05
icember 30.67
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