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Established 1844. 1 THE PRESS AND BANNER t ABBEVILLE, S. C. \ j ? 1 The Press and Banner Company J ] Published Tri-Weekly ! ( Monday, Wednesday and Friday, j I Telephone No. 10. I * Entered as second *_iass matter at j post office iD Aobeville, S. C. Ter at of Subscription: One year ' |2.001 j ? Six months l.uu t Three months .nu , 1_ ] FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1920. ' i1 ? . ' ' II h AFTER THE PROFITEER. <r L * ; The New York Times states that ' fifteen operators and brokers have 1 been indicted in the Federal Courts 1 i under the Lever Act for profiteering is 1 in coal. It is stated in the article that j coal which is produced at $2.00 per ton has been sold by these operators l and brokers at profits ?f $7.00 to * $8.00 per ton. At least two of those * indicted handle coal in this, section of the country, and it is well that ' |u . the people know how they are being held up by these peopie. l'V 1 And the government will do well if the indictments are followed up ' by convictions and jail sentences. ^ The necessities of the people should 1 not be made the excuse for exacting J k. 'j such unconscionable profits. Coal ' enters into so many things that the ' people must hav.e that when such 1 profits are demanded the wrong ( reaches into the homes of even the 1 humblest citizen. The Department of 1 Justice has been criticised in the 1 1 ' past -for getting after a few bakers * and other little fellows who cannot 1 make much at most, and it is well now that the strong arm of the law 1 f is reaching out to gather in the larger malefactors. We warned the people sometime ago that the pricey of coal now prevalent are due in large part to the E speculations of the brokers, who are taking the cars, which might go back to the mines and haul other loads of coal, and reconsigning these cars to first one point and then another in an attempt to secure larger and larger prpifits from the people, and especially from the industries which must have coal in order to run and keep the wage earners in employ-' ment. . , " The warning needs to be heeded by the people still. There should be no encouragement to these people, and the Department of Justice, co-i operating with the Interstate Commerce Commission, it appears to us j should be able to put a stop to the't practices of these criminals. jr ' 'ij GOING TO THE MOUNTAINS ,, iV.' " ! 1 ( This is the season when most peo' ? pie who do not have enough sense to ' remain at home go to the mountains. Q You at ieast get a good deal of exercise making the trip to ana from the resorts, even though you do nothing % but sit around after you get there. * Saturday morning we had the pleas- ? ure of standing up in crowded trains * from Waterloo, Laurens county, S. * C., to Waynesville, Haywooc County, " N. C. When we got tired standing on ' one foot we had the pleasure of ! ] standing on the other. People of all classes, kinds and conditions, are on J the roads these days. And the men who are being laid off by the rail- 1 roads need not feel discouraged, be- ( cause if the travel continues when ' rates are increased, the railroads < will! need most of them :o count the 1 money before very long. ^ But the mountains at>out Waynes- [ ville are comfortable to look uport 1 after you get there. The little moun- t tain town of three thousand people 1 is full of strangers now. The hotels 1 which stand on a ridge between two ranges of high mountains are reap-' I ing a harvest, if there is sucn a thin& 1 in the hotel business, and we belifeve j 11 Woirnocvillp is not SO Strik- 1 IIICIC to. ft UJ ing as a business place. Son Bill walk- ' ed up the street Saturday night, and ' '"the street"' in Waynesv.-ile is one 1 long street, prehaps a half mile in 1 length, with storehouses and shops ; ( n each side in which all kinds of 1 goods and wares from watermelons I two weeks old to Indian baskets are displayed. Bill didn't think much of the town, and remarked that he ; thought it was about as big as At--' lanta, but "Abbeville can put it in 1 its hip pocket and have room for Due West and Donalds." You see few South Carolinians in SVaynesville. Most of the people from his state stop in Hendersonville or i Ysheville. But in Wayncsviile you neet people from Florica, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and )ther states. Sunday morning at the Methodist Church where we attended services the preacher announced that he wanted to get acquainted with the Deople, and called on the people by states to stand up. More people from ;ach of the states mentioned stood ip than the number of those from ,his state. But there are more people ;here now from this state than there .vas Sunday because Cor. Pat McCas-' an has since landed and Daddy Longshore is on the way. When tney get ;ogether it will be a real representation frcm the real estate. j We met at the Gordon wnere we stopped Mrs. Gaston Mears and her two pretty daughters. Many of our people will remember Mrs. Mears, A'ho came to Abbeville a beautiful bride some few years ego, not so many to, be sure, and they will be ;urDriseti > to know that she has a * T 7> . jrcwn darter. The mother is pTetJy still and the young lady Is almost is pretty as her mother, and is equally as attractive. That is the reason, sve suppose, why Gaston runs so regalarly and wins so often at setback. | Miss Johnnie May Lynch is now :>ne of the natives of Waynesville. Miss Lynch's mother has purchased i home in the - mountain town, and Miss Lynch is to teach in the High School next session, of which her brother Prof. Aaron Lyncn, is the principal. Mrs. Lynch has a pretty :ottage on the side of a high hill which Miss Lynch will climb each norning in a race to beat the bell ind save the dollar which the North Carolina people charge a teachpr vho is late to school. ^ At the hotels there is little for the ^ jeople to amuse themselves at ex- ( :ept dancing and playing cards, ex- , sept of course eating and sleeping , md sleeping and eating. I never saw j >o many well fed women In one lot n my life, and judging by appear-< inces they have no excuse for their j >resence there except to get rested t ind cool, and it is cool, at Waynesrille, because you need blankets at, light, though the sun shines hot on ^ t Greenville Street inhabitant in the niddle of the day. Col. Joe Elgin, who used to be an Abbeville man is a real estate profit-1 jer in Waynesville now. He pulled I >if a sale of town lots on a mountain1 tide one afternoon while we were* here. The mountain was so steep hat you had to stand at the bottom1 ind get Joe to point out the lots, but le put the sale across anyway. The ots snlrl at from r?n\vr> to SfiO )cr lot. Joe said he did not get as nuch as he wanted but he would let he sale stand, as it brought In about f ;2,000. per acre. He has a beautiful ;ungalow about three doors from the Jordon Hotel, and he and Mrs. Eljin are looking as well ancf prosper>us as most people in the millionaire lass. I Uncle Jim should go to Waynes ille. There is a good sized and beauiful brick church of the Uaptist peruasion there, and we are satisfied i hat if he could get to take up a colection there he would get as much .s he made off Alf Lyon when he old his cotton two weeks ago. The nountains are a little high up for the baptists but they go down *o Tigeon liver and keep things swimming. ' Pigeon Street is tlie street in tVaynesville which runs parallel to ji-eenvuie street in ADDeviiie. we valked down it sc as to feel at home,' md found the peopl^ looking cone.ited and happy ju'st like they do :ere. You could see people rrom othu* streets walking along Pigeon tryng to see how things are done' here, and how the swells behave, just is they do on Greenville street in \bbeville. . ' r.,* . 1 1 ) * -C l fie mountaineers nave learrieu ui ,he high cost of living and they are :aking care of themselves. The people who did the buying tola us that :hey were able to order apples from Virginia for less than they could be nought for from the orchards about Iheir own town. They sell chickens by the pound up there, feathers and all, and feed them on heavy diet at that, and a man won't work for less than about forty dollars a day, with time amf a half for overtime. We saw a wagon selling peaches at seventy-five cents per peck and he was doing a killing business. The blackberries are just now getting ripe find the mountains are covered with huckleberries, but the hotels get none' >f these, but prefer to buy things from elsewhere because the prices are cheaper we suppose. { After looking over the ground we have reached the conclusion that Waynesville has little that we could pot have at Parson's Mount (Little Mountain we call it,) if some of the capitalists would build a big summer hotel down there, and charge five or six dollars per day, advertise in the Atlanta Journal, and put on a lot sale on the side of the mountain about every other day.t The guests wculd be about as comfortable, the water would be as good, and the people would save a shopping trip to the cities when they went home Because they could buy all the nne clothes and other needed things for the fall in the stores at Abbeville wnile they were summering in this vicinity. We are wasting a good opportunity we fear. # * * ? I XXT^ nrfirn -?onr QTVIIIQA. TV C daiu ??v*v a.vt? ments up that way, but we forgot about the strike while we were there. One of the waiters had been looking after the wants of a fat man about the build, size and complexion of Corp. Kerr for two weeks, he said "and he aint give me nuthin ylt," so he swore a mighty oath that he would carry him no more "vittles" and none of the other wasters would do so, hence the strike. It was settled some how and things were running again- the next morning but the fat man had gone back to his furniture store to begin making up for his losses while away from home. i , PET CANARY ACCORDED AN EXPENSIVE FUNERAL * Newark N. J., Aug. 3.?The scrip- | ;ural assurance that sparrows shall, lot fall unnoticed was given' tangible application to a pet canary bird ;oday. Jimmie, the little , songster, :hoked to death yesterday on a | ivatermelon se^d, and so grief | stricken was his owner, Emidio I Russomanno ,a sixty-five year old :obbler, that friends contributed i ?200 for a funeral, including a I learse, five mourners, coaches and i i f&teen-piece band. "He sang so sweet?like Caruso," lobbed the cobbler as the ' little jlush lined casket, probably 12 Lift off Corns? Doesn't hurt a bit and Freezone-' coarts only a few cents. ' v^\. 11 M V I With y~ur fingers! You can lift off | any hard corn, soft corn, or com be-; twoen the toes, and the hard skin calluses from of bottom feet. A tiny bottle of "Freezone" costs j litrle at any drug store; apply a *ew j Irons uoon the corn or callus. In- 1 ^tantly it stops hurting, then shortly vou lift that bothersome corn' or \ i-allus riffht off, root and all, without one bit of pain or soreness. Truly! MICKEY SAYS: ; _ ^ 4 9EW. tVA' ] PAPER MUl SO E^SN W rT VOOWS,! ] \'U_T?U-TK \N0R.\.0\ KNOW HO\N T* SPE-UV-'hi COr"*T>OS? *N G\f "SER FACTS f'OEfHER. *N j vifv vrxfa LOOW'N MOT najchtf ftf4vf^>NGr.TfrK^U. MKKE POUC6 J I SO&E N NKOrOffft, PUT ft lA f j PEP ykffr COKMNAShTeVIER'PAN i. J tU\t^O-S( 'AT A\n|t GrOT ANfl >EP \ i IN 'EM, SO -THfeN'LL tAA.K.6 INtER- j j ESTVN' REJOIN* - *N THEM PKFfER j MOO'VE RUN AVA. OVER. "TOWN j j AFTER. NEWS 'N VMtUTTEN COL- ! MUN\fi OP STUFF. FOLKS'LLTHROVN ; ifHE PfKPER. 00\NN 'N SAN," THERE J i V A\M*T KOtHm' IN Trt' PKPERl'^/ ; Qourity WE DO NOT BELIE SOUND W E DO SAY SAV S A F E IFOR MONEY WOR SERVICE THE COUNTY SAV WE PAY 5 PE I Count inches long, was lowered in the'i ?rave. He plans to erect a monu- 1 ment later. * > I rAKES A VACATION WILSON'S SUGGESTION j Washington, Aug 3.'?Rear Ad-(' ! w?C I ffCIC 1 Having S A Great SALE yS ? I BUYING KUPPENf I STYLEPLUS SI S 25 j Below Their Regular H People. 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