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Abbeville Press and Banner J Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Monday, August 23, 1914. Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. fj LOWNDESVILLE IN TALK GOOD ROADS 1 ? GOOD ROADS FOR THE FARMER AND LOTS OF THEM?MAKES LEGISLATIVE ^CANDIDATES TO TASK FOR NOT DISCUSSING THIS SUBJECT IN THEIR SPEECHES ______ / ) Editor Press and Banner:? The meeting of the candidates at Lowndesville, yesterday, has been a pleasant one, so far as friendly intercourse is concerned. But the talk on the good roads subject has been wanting. This is due, no doubt, to the Jack of a basis for discussion. I will try, through the columns of the Press and Banner, to present to our candidates for the legislature a more definite ground for their talk. The advent of the automobile and of the motor truck has brought a revolution in the mode of living of the farmers. The wealthiest, as well as the humblest qf us, need good roads and this need is immediate/ Now what we farmers mean' bygood roads is not expensive roads built of concrete, asphalt or other materials, we mean simply tevel and | well drained roads. We mean roads that we can rely upon, roads that we trust, upon which we can easily travel in any direction all over the county without fear of being exposed to be stuck in mud holes or to be stranded helplessly at the foot of j our hills; this is what we mean byj good roads. Above all we need thesei good roads for every body and not only for a few. We are not able now to be mon-| keying our neighboring counties by spending fabulous sums of money for a few miles of socalled improved roads for the benefit of only a few, while the rest of us will have to be contented to pay taxes, to continue to do the best we can with our impassable roads, and to remain shut from the rest of the world. There is no exaggeration in what I say. Only recently many of our friends have come to see us but , have had to stop at the foot of the Allen hill and go back home, not being able to go farther. The scheme which has obtained the vote of the 450,000 dollars bond issue by describing the many roads which were to be improved, wasl perfectly engineered to catch votes, but it has a fundamental defect; its execution is an impossibility as the money voted is sufficient for the construction and maintenance of only a few of the roads named. But another point which seems to us very important is this: Is the vote of the bond issue j valid? In our layman n\ind we think it is j N not. The vote has been carried by an insignificant number of voters (which number could have been still smaller). It is our humble opinion that if the number of votes obtained answers the letter of the law it certainly does not answer is spirit. For the above reasons and speaking for many of us, I suggest that the project of the improvement of good roads should be abandoned, for the present, and that we use the 450,000 dollars of the bond issue for the building of the "farmers good roads" will have been copi, pleted, then we will take over the construction of the improved roads. We need the views of our candidates for the legislature because we must Know n we can uepeuu upuu them to help us to carry out our plan, that is the immediate building of the "farmers good roads." E. C. Meschine, Hermitage Farm Lowndesville, S. C., August 20, 1920. Rev. Clotfelter Says People Want Better Roads Editor Press and Banner:? The time has come when all right ^Continued on Page Eight.) COTTON MARKET BREAKS AFTER OPENING AT RISE Decline Caused It Is Said Because Of Increased Offerings Of Spots | And Futures And Increased Demand The New York Cotton market today, after opening about thirty points up from Saturday's close, broke sharply during the day closing nearly a cent and a half below the closing figures of Saturday. The cause of he decline is stated to be the increased offerings of spots and futures, with an absence of urgent trade demand. The unfavorable financial situation at home and abroad also contributes to the - decline, as the larger crop ideas and uneasiness over. the European political and labor situation, there being a threat of a coal strike in Eng land. The Liverpool market is stated to have closed today in almost a state of demoralization. Money is reported tight all over the South, especially in Texas where the farmers are being offered only $20.00 to $25.00 per ton for cotton seed as against $60.00 to $80.00 last season. As a result the cotton seed are not being sold but the farmers in Texas in order to raise ready cash are selling their cotton, greatly increasing receipts over last year. The County of Neuces is reported to have marketed already 25,000 bales this far as against 21,000 for the entire season next year. The cotton letter of H. & B. Beer o^vieoe -fa Vm arc fVinf there is nothing to do to combat the present tendency of the market except to refuse to sell at present figures. This course, it is suggested, shoull be adopted in every cotton raising section of the South, or disaster will be the results. REV. L. J. BRISTOW RETURNS FROM VACATION V V Spent in Minneapolis and Other Placet of Interest.?-Attended Big K. of P. Convention While Away. Rev. L. J. Bristow returned Friday night from Minneapolis, where he had been a delegate in attendance upon the supreme lodge Knights of Pythias in annual session in that city. Mr. Bristow tells of a most interesting and enjoyable trip but reutrned " some ten days ahead of his contemplated stay, having intended a trip to Yellowstone Park and other points in the west. He gives as a reason for his early return that he was homesick for the old town and his many friends here. Mrs. Bristow, who had been spending some time at Hen dersonville, preceded him home several days, she having grown homesick also. Miss Gwen, who has been with her mother at Hendersonville, remained for a stay of a few days longer at this popular summering place in the old North State. It is needless to say that Mr. and Mrs. Bristow's many friends and parishioners are glad to have them home again and to know they have enjoyed their brief vacation. AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. Mr. Williams of Erskine colege, Ehie West, was the preacher at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning. He delivered a very strong and forceful sermon to a large and appreciative congregation. In the evening union services were held at this church, Rev. Mr. Williams again being the minister, assisted by Revs. Bristow, Derbyshire and Plaxco. As at the morning service a large crowd was present and thoroughly enjoyed the splendid sermon. IMPROVING NORTH MAIN Charlie Haigler, Jr., has returned to Atlanta, after spending his vacation with his father and sisters in Abbeville. He spent his time while here in improving the looks of North Main street by beautifying his father's yaru. Candidates For Addressed Vol Court House Filled To It Hear Speeches.?Cand ernor, Adjutant Gen missioner Only On Meeting?Respec , Given Each i The candidates for state offices spoke in the Court House this morning to an audience of abou: rive hundred voters, the building being filled to capacity. County Chairman Moore was called out of the city and at his request Wm. P. Greene presided and introduced the speakers. Candidates for Lieut. Governor. Hon. Octavus Cohen, of Charleston, was slated as the fii'st speaker for this office. Mr. Cohen was not present, and did not arrive in Abbeville in time to address the voters. 1 Capt. 0. K. Mauldin, or Greenville, was introduced to the voters and spoke for twenty m:nu:es setting forth his claims to the suffrages of the voters. In vbtginnlng the speaker recalled the fact tnat when he was a young man he spent a great deal of his boyhood in this city. He was glad, he said, to be with the people of Abbeville County, many of whom were his friends or former days and a good many of whom were related to him. He was always glad he said to speak to the people in the Piedmont section where he spoke the same language as the people whom he addressed, and that in the early stages of the campaign he had felt a little embarrassed in the lower part of the state where he was not so well known. \i The affairs of the state, the speaker declared, had been in the hands of the people of this section for the most part for the last twenty-five years, and they had been well managed. The speaker stated that he was a graduate of Furman University, was in the Spanish-American War, had Deen engaged in farming and practicing law up to the outbreak of the World War, when $e went to Camp Ogelthorpe and was commissioned as a Captain, serving in France until the end of the war. In 1914, the speaker reminded his audience that he was elected to the House of Representatives from Greenville County by the largest vote ever given a candidate for that office in his county. ! Calling-attention to .the fact that his father once held the oifice of Lieut. Governor, and as such cast the deciding vote in favor of the estabi:-i J. -r /"n iisnmeiit ui ^icuisun vuucgc, iiuc speaker stated that he like his father stood for education. A school for| every child and every child In school, was his slogan. He was tot goftd roads, saying however that ne op-! posed the bond issue in Greenville County for roads because the people were not allowed to vote on the1 subject. He favors prohibition. He looked upon the office as an important one and stated that the people should elect a man of capacity,! character and dignity to the office. The man elected, he said, in view of the fact that he might succeec to the office of Governor, should be such a man a? the people would select for! that office. He concluded with a joke on the! two negro soldiers, which pleased the, audience. Hon. Wilson G. Harvey, of Charleston, followed in an earnest ad-; I dress to tne voters, tie am not waiui the office because his father had filled J it, he said, but because Tie reit quail-' fied to fill it on his own account. He read the endorsement of the agricultural interests in his section and' of the labor organizations, the latter declaring that as an officer of the! city government in Charleston he hadj been fair in all his dealings to all interests. He stated that he was the j president of a bank but that his bank had been accustomed to serve the ag-' ricultural interests in his section, J and that he was in touch through It; Jfafe Offices lers Here Today s Capacity By'Voters To lidates For Lieut. Gov- ( eral and R. R. Comes Present At The stable Hearing . | Candidate. with the needs of the people. It 1 was not necessary he said ror the of- ' fice to be filled by a lawyer. The At- 1 torney General would attend to the I legal department of the state, but the 1 office should be filled by a man of 1 business and good practical sense, 1 acquainted with parliamentary law and procedure, and this he claimed to ' be. '' Every letter in his name, he said 1 stood for something. The '"H" he said 1 tsood for, Harmony' amongst the people of the state. The "A" tor an Available school house in the state for every child. The "R" ror Road Improvement. The "V" for the development of the Villages Into cities; the "E" for Enforcement of Law and Order; the "Y" for Yearly earnings to labor commensurate with the work done. He recalled that Charleston pays ten per cent, of the taxes of the state, but that for twenty-five years no candidate from that city had held j a state office. On this account he felt that if Charleston presented a worthy man, he should 1>e favorec. At the conclusion of his speech the J applause was generous. For Railroad Commissioner. a Hon. D. L. Smith, of Colleton, was s the first speaker. He outlined his t claims to this office, and told of thek men in Abbeville County who knew.g him, and referred, the audience .to'ii them. He thanked the voters for the a handsome vote received ' two years e ago, and asked for the votes of those'a who then voted against him. j<3 He criticised the administration ofj Mr. Shealy. Said the office affectedj? the interests of every man, womanjv and child in ,the state and that their interests had been neglected. The people of the state did not nave he said what they were entitled to in the way of depots and public cross- c ings. 0 He called attention^ to the fact that two years ago he received seventysix per cent, of the votes in his county, and ran ahead in twenty-nine cbunties in the state. This he declar- : ed was an endorsement of him by the people who knew him. Frank W. Shealy, tne present Chairman of the Railroas Commisc sion, who is a candidate ror re-elecs tion, was the next on the program, j He wired the chairman tnat he was s PTiP'sceH in f!nlnmhia in an effnrt . settle express rates, and for that reason could not be present. He thanked j the people for the vote given aim In His former race and selected their votes again. < Mr. R. L. Moss, of Richland, spoke next. He was a practical railroad man he told his hearers and as such was qualified to fill the office Intelligent 1 ly. He has come from the bottom up < in railroading and feels that he is i able to serve the people better than i the other candidates, who know noth j ing about the matter, as ?e sees it. He said he loved his country and ] was in favor of good roads and edu- i cation, but was not a prohibitionist, j He wanted good barrooms again he said, fitted up like parlors, where the i working man after the day's labor < could drop in on his way home, take ' a drink, go home, eat supper, wash ( his leet and go to bed. j Mr. D. RI. McCaskill the other can- , didate was not present. 1 Adj. and Inspector Genera! < Col. A. H. Marchant, of Orangeburg, was introduced as the first speaker for this office. He opened his speech by saying thr/. V.oed to make his speech along the lines of ^ women's modern apparel?short * j (Continued on Page Eight.) s PUBLIC MEETING AT , j THE COURT HOUSE I Tomorrow at 8:30 O'clock Under the Auspices of Local Chamber of Commerce.?Mr. Royster, To Address Meeting. "How to organize and maintain a ^ Chamber of Commerce." This will be the subject of an address by William R. Royster, secretary of the Griffin and Spaulding County, Ga., Chamber of Commerce, to be delivered at the court house in this city, tomorrow evening at 8:30 o'clock. Mr. Royster comes to the city upon the invitation of the local Chamber, and it is earnestly desired that all members of that body as well as the ,j public generally be 0^1 hand to hear g what he has to say about the chamber c of commerce work and what it means g to a community. Mr. Royster is one of the best known secretaries in our sister state, ^ ind he is coming here with a message to the organization in this place that it will be well for all to hear. The recently organized commer-^ :ial body in this city has a vast field J ^ IS looves every member, and this should,^ comprise every citizen, to be on hand tomorrow night and hear what the ? speaker will have to say pertaining p co the importance and value of the organization to the town, county andj" section. 1? President J. M. Nickles of the lo-j^ :al Chamber asks the Press and. Ban-| ier to urge all citizens to be present: it this meeting tomorrow night at R S:30 o'clock. ' [n _______________ t< DR. KILGO TO PREACH t; tl Rev. C. E. Peele, the pastor of the n lethodist church, requests' us to Ci nnounce that Dr. J. W. Kilgo, pre- U iding elder of the Cokesburg dis-, rict will preach in the Methodist' Jhurch next Sunday morning, Au- * ;ust 29th., at 11 o'clock. Dr. Kilgo a 3 one of the most eloquent as well J* ,s earnest preachers in the Confernee, and his coming should assure ^ , large congregation of the Metholists next Sunday. ^ Rev. Mr. Peele is in Gibson, N. C., j rhere he is spending a few days e rith his mother. s. HERE FROM HARTSVILLE t] v si Mr. R. E. Caldwell is in the city * in a visit to his wife, who is visiting ^ (t the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. s1 C1 Jarnwell. Mr. Caldwell is a success ill business man in his entemrisini? 1 own and is just home from an ex- ( ended trip to New York and the 11 Sastern markets. ^ _ Si A VISITOR Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hemphill :ame over from Greenwood Sunday md spent the day with Mrs. E. C. lemphill. They brought their young v ion, James Calvin with them, who ike most famous men at the age of ^ >ne month is strong on voice* but is ? a acking in such essentials as teeth ^ md hair. ^ OIL MILLS CANNOT J11 GET COAL SUPPLY " ^ S Columbia, Aug. 21.?Oil Mills over 1 the state are still facing a serious loal shortage and the situation be- ^ :omes graver at the approach of the * tiew season, according to well in-jr formed seed crushers. The precious! fuel is being quoted at high prices, { but this is not the main trouble with v the mills for they can't get the coal at any price. Of the twenty-four mills in South Carolina very few are suplied for the ^ season and indications are that thev ' " V will not be able to run any length time on the amount in hand. The South Carolina Cotton Seed Crush si's Association has been working on the problem for several months, but 30 far has secured no relief. n VISITORS FROM FLORIDA J Misses Adele and Amy Boyd of 3 Facksonville, Fla., are the very at- 3 ractive guests of their aunt, Mrs. ?C [. M. Wilkinson on North Main I itreet. PREDICTED DELAY : VOTES FOR WOMEN CONSTITUTIONAL LEAGUE SENDS OUT WARNING TO . ;J GOVERNORS. TENNESSEE : GOVERNOR SAYS WILL OF MAJORITY SHALL NOT BE 1 NULLIFIED. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 22.?From Y'l he snarl of legal and legislative echnicalities that have enmeshed Tennessee's ratification of the fed- ral suffrage amendment tonight 'j|3 ame the prediction of the Tennetlee Consitutional league that the in unction against certification of the ^ rould prevent enfranchisement of ' M he women of the nation for at least J year and a half. The Constitutional league, which ^ as been fighting ratification in J 'ennessee. on the ground that the ; % tate constitution prohibited the resent legislature from acting on he suffrage amendment and which J laims to include both suffrage op- "j onents and advocates in its mem- 3 ership, made its prediction in a -S xessage addressed to the governors f Vermont, Connecticut, Florida, tlabama, Louisiana, Delaware, and outh Carolina. The league's mes- VS age declared that Tennessee had ot ratified suffrage and served otice that any state official who afcjmpted certification would be at- X icked for contempt of court under - ft lie injunction which the league anounced would if necessary, k be /'. arried to the supreme court of t)ie fjj United States. , ' Adlocatet Satisfied Suffrage advocates, however, connued oday to characterize the station as satisfactory. They reiterted their contention that the action . ,'^k f the house yesterday in calling up f w le Walker reconsideration , motion ; ' $& nd defeating it, and in ordering ie senate joint resolution of ratifiation transmitted to the senate for ' -i i ngrossing to be justified and* unavailable despite the lack of legislate quorum. The 30 or more antiuffrage members of the house who rent to uecatur, Aia., eany yeateray in order to prevent the quorum, till were in Alabama today and acording to reports received here, rere determined to remain there at ?ast during the next few days. Beig outside the state they can not e airested and compelled to attend^ ' i essions of the house. -j * 4- V Will Stick It Out Decatur, Ala., Aug. 22.?The 31 aembers of the Tennessee house of epresentatives opposed to suffrage fho came here in order to break a uorum and prevented further acion on ratification of the 19th mendment, staged an impromptu v V emonstration at the railway sta ion here today when a train bearag Mrs. James S. Piackard of lontgomery, Ala., president of the k>uthern Women's Rejection .) ;ague, passed through the city. Tonight found the legislators still etermined to fight to the last litch o prevent ratification of the suffage amendment, by their state. ntil the finish," said Representaive Hall leader of the party. "There rill be no break in our Tanks." A NEW MILLINER Miss Frances Thomas of Baltimore as arrived in the city to begin rork as milliner for Haddon-WilTU/\?v?oe n tramr Uiii 1U133 x numao to a j ui.ui.uv.ive young lady and will be welomed by the young people of the ity. 3j2jgj2jgj2l3MSJ3MSlSISM3J3I3J3M3I3MBf3J3 COTTON MARKET ar.uary 24.15 flalrteh ' 23.97 lay 23.75 )ctober 26.00 )ecember 24.33 5. 'L- .. :