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r the Future As le Present. ? < mcfifnfiAn ^ uiowipiinai jr tuiuv wv vt*w tuv/vtwivivmi The Baptist board expects to put into the school as an initial investment about $150,000 in addition to any sum locally given. The school will be located in the upper portion of the State, and Abbeville is one of two or three places being considered for it. Abbeville's Opportunity. This seems to be Abbeville's opportunity to secure an institution of State-wide interest, one which will be of incalculable worth to the town and county. While the matter has been talked of in an informal manner only up to this time, public spirited citij zens owning property in different j parts of the city and near the cor| porate limits have made it known that ! an ample site will be given, indeed, ' some six or seven definite proposals have been made to the local Baptist committee which has been working on the matter; and it is expected that others will be forthcoming when the mass meeting names a committee to represent the county in the matter, and gives impetus to the campaign to secure the school. Abbeville now has no institution of a state-wide nature, and none upon which all our people are united in its support. This proposed school seems! to offer such an institution. While; it; will be under Baptist control, the 14 school will be non-sectarian, as Fur-1* man and Wofford, Erskine and the'2 Presbyterian college are non-secta-|^ rian. It will be a Christian institution!( where boys and young men may be | * educated under the best moral in-; ' fluence. All persons interested in se- i ' curing such a school for Abbeville i j are invited to attend the meeting in i I.*! l tt ?. m i 7 I tne uourr nouse next luesaay. i INVESTORS HOLD ON TO SAVINGS STAMPS J Washington, Sept. 21?Approxi- J mately 75 per cent, of all war savings stamps sold by the treasury ^ since the outbreak of the war are still retained by investors, according to figures made public tonight by the treasury. The treasury statement shows that since the government placed x the small securities on the market sales 1 have amounted to $1,168,200,000. ^ Redemptions to the middle of September have aggregated slightly more than $360,000,000. Outstanding stamps and certificates were said to be distributed evenly ; and little expectation of further heavy redemptions until maturity was expected. TUP rnTTHM MAPVFT illlrf W? A V?1 a Col. Alf Lyon, who buys the fleecy staple for Abbeville Cotton Mills, has asked us to take note of the fact that Abbeville is a better market for cotton this year than Due'West. This will be good news to the Abbeville sellers, and all of us will be intersted in seeing the Abbeville buyers keep this market in the lead. ceptionally fine executive, but the association members desire to alternate the honor so as to make plain that the enlisted men as well as officers have a voice in the affairs of the organization. Officers of the Wild Cat Association stated this afternoon that it is . J impossible to estimate yet the at| endance. There are more than three thousand registered delegates with i others attending, which the officers J state, will bring the total attendance /to approximately four thousand. FORD MOTOR CO. TO REDUCE PRICES Head Of Motor Concern Says It Ii Time For War Creed To End And Somebody To Really Start Something. Detroit, Mich.j Sept. 21.?Re-es tablishment of prewar prides on pro ducts of the Ford Motor Company effective immediately was announ :ed today by Henry Ford. The pric< reductions range from approxi mately 14 per cent on motor truck: to 31 per cent on small automo biles. In announcing the decision of th< company Mr. Ford in a forma statement said: "Now is the time to call a halt or tvar methods, war prices, war profit Peering and war greed. It may b< necessary for everybody to -f the people. "For the best interests of all. il t time that a real practical effori aras made to bring the business oi ;he country and the life- of th< ;ountry down . to normal. Inflatec prices always retard progress." The announcement said the pric< leductions were made despite unfillid orders for 146,065 vehicles. There will be no reduction ir vages at any of the Ford plants vas announced. MOVING AROUND. Col. Frank B. Jones, the insuranci TMAUA/1 Til Ao/lotr f V? i ;Apcit| 1UVVCU X UCOUOJ 11VU1 win lome of Mrs; Essie Nickles, where hi ind his family have had apartment: ?or sometime into his new residenci >n Magazine Street, which has jus >een thoroughly remodeled. Mr. Robert McKenzie and his fam ly are moving into the apartment: vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Jones an< vill make their home in Abbeville. M. VIcKenzie has a responsible positioi vith the Kerr Furniture Company. Mr. and Mrs. Whit Klugh are go ng to house-keeping and will occup: ;he cottage on Pickens Street recent y occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Ben T Cochran. Col. George Shirley and his fami iy are to leave Abbeville much to th< regret of their friends. They wil move in the next few days to Wil mington, N. C., where Mr. Shirle; has a good position awaiting him. Mr. and Mrs. W. Joel Smith wil ?o to housekeeping in the resident to be vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Shir ley. . Mr. and Mrs. Ben T. Cochran ar now at home to their friends at th residence on Ellis Street recentl; purchased from J. M. Anderson They moved last week and are no\ comfortably settled. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson ar moving today from the apartment at the residence of Mr. Evans to thei new home on Parker Street. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Purdy who hav been occupying the new Jackso home have moved into one of the ne> houses near the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sprouse will oc cupy part of the house on Picken Street with Mr. and Mrs. Whit Klug! f exchange cotton prices. Greenville, Sept. 21.?A daily e> change of cotton prices with 20 of th leading cities of South Carolina i contemplated by the Greenvill Chamber of Commerce in cooperatio with other commercial organization: it was announced today. * SEEING THE BOY Mrs. Nancy J. Agnew, of Gilga came to town Tuesday to visit he nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs George P. Bowie, and to see th new young man who arrived at th Bowie home last week. REFUSED I RE1, SCIND SUFFRAGE i Anti-Suffrage Delegation From Tennessee Requests Secretary Of State To Publish Documents In Case Washington, Sept. 21.?Secretary " Colby has refused to grant the re? quest of anti-suffragists from Ten" nessee that he rescind his action in ; proclaiming ratification of the fed" eral suffrage amendment on the 3 basis of unfavorable action on the - amendment by the Tennessee legislature. - Afetr the secretary announced 1 his decision to the delegation at a conference late yesterday he was 1 requested to at least publish all oi " the documents regarding action by - the Tennessee legislature as re1 ceived by him from the governoi and other officials. These documents 5 it was said, showed the legislature ' first ratified the amendment and the lower house then rescinded its action. 1 Secretary Colby said today the delegation h^d brought up the quest tion of political exigiency in cont nection with their request that Tenf nessee be stricken from the list of J states which have ratified the I amendment. They suggested that the secretary issue a new proclamaJ tion on the basis of ratification by Connecticut, but the secretary told them that was not possible. i Through federal District Attor ? ney Laskey, Secretary Colby today filed in the district court of appeals a motion to dismiss the appeal taken by Charles S. Fairchild for the American Constitution League 3 from the decision of district Justice 3 Bailey, refusing an injunction to 3 prevent the proclamation of the 3 suffrage amendment. Mr. Colby 3 said the object of the proceedings was to prevent that which already had become a fact. 3 TOM WATSON MUST PAY 1 HIS SON'S FORMER WIFE c \ Atlanta, Sept. 21.?In answer to a certified question from the court oi _ aDDeals. the supreme court of Geor f :* gia has declared legal and binding ? 1 contract between Thomas E. Watson of Thomson, United States senatoria nominee, and Mattie Belle Burnley e formerly the wife of his deceased sor 2 J. Durham Watson. In February 1904, Mr. Watson anc y his son entered into a contract t< pay $25 a month in lieu of alimony t< II the son's wife, who was then separ e ated, but not divorced, from him. Th< ,_| payments were made until April 191? when Durham Watson died. e In refusing to make further pay e ments, attorneys for Mr. Watson yi stated the .contract was illegal be u cause it provided for a divorce o: y discontinuance of the marriage rela tion and because it was in restraint o: e marriage after divorce. The contrac s held that payments should continue r through the life of Mattie Belli Burnley unless she remarried afte: e her divorce, wnicn was giameu am n her maiden name restored, after thi v contract,was entered into. It was al so agreed that the payments shoul< be in lieu of any claim she migh s make to Durham Watson's estate ii case of his death. The supreme court answered tha the contract was valid and enforce able and since it was made solel; : for permanent provision for suppor e of the former wife, the agreemen isl relative to divorce or remarriage di< e not rendeT it null and void. n 3, HAVE YOU A BOY OR GIRL AWAY AT SCHOOL There is nothing your boy or gir who is away from home would enjo; I, more than the (Tri-Weekly) Pres r and Banner. Come in now and let u >. send it to them while they are awa; e at school?Better than a letter fron e home. Three times a week for the 9 month school term $1.50. HURRICANE SWI PEOPLE HUN People Along Louisiana-1 As Waters Rise Before S Mainland West of Mi Change Its Course Ar er Bureau Warns S Orleans Hit Communities along the gulf coast th< i from the Florida peninsula to the rej Texas lagoons prepared last night for soi emergency of storm and flood today, its 1 while weather bureau warnings told mi t of a vortex of tropical hurricane i dragging its attendant circles of rofir' ing gales slowly toward the mainland, r The traffic lanes in the gulf itself hu . were clearing fast as ship masters, icc apprised by the wireless of the advent at i of high running seas and wind, ran bu ? into port shelter. no [ Spelling tides on the Louisiana- wi s Texas coast and falling barometers sul heralded its coming. At Corpus Chris> ti and Galveston, inhabitants remem- bu . bering the death dealing havoc cre. ated by the onslaughts of " tropical p. . storms, sought higher ground and tei > safer footing. Dwellings were vacated to; , and store stocks moved at Corpus sis; . Christi last ni^ht. even the bic steam chi . tankers in the oil trade made way forj W< . the hurricane's passage and turned cai off their course to harbor in the Mis- vis sissippi delta. Though the weather bureau forecast the point of the storm's probable * contact with the continent somewhere o'c along the coast stretch west of the ha< Mississippi mouth, any moment for( twi sometime this afternoon, its signals am were spread east as far as Tampa, ed. Ships at sea sought shelter there, at bio Mobile and the Smaller ports of the Eastern Gulf section, reporting high , seas and rising winds as they did so. , The erratic nature of hurricanes, the Gu bureau said, made it always poss ble J the that the present disturbance would to swerve from the northward course a , charted for iit since its entrance to ^ lea sea Saturday off Yucatan. Hourly its Th progress was checked and noted byj i [ LONGEST BETTINGS ODDS LE i FAVOR SENATOR HARDING ? ^ | New York, Sept. 21.?At odds of Ac , 4 to 1, $16,000 was wagered today i that Senator Harding would be the next president of the United States. 1 This amount represented the "long" ) end of the bet according to the brok) erage house in Wall street which is t'? holding the money. The same firm sm ; says it has a ?lood of- Harding *01 5 money to bet at the same odds, but at that all the Cox money thus far of- wa - fered would not exceed $5,000 and ^i1 ? comes mostly from curb brokers, e(* who want 6 to 1. These odds are a? r the longest ever recorded in any ; k? - presidential election at this early ^ f stage. t . ; wi 5 LAND SALES. A sel r wl * T. H. Botts has sold his farm of clc s 260 acres, located near Darraughs to " J. A. Shand and two Spartanburg | an * planters for $19,500. The sale was te< ' made Monday and was handled by the 1 Dixie Land Company. ^ Mr. Botts immediately purchased ,v/? t * ' l?f the McKellar tract of land near Greenwood for $8,000. He will move 0 ^ there this fall. f? t > ba t tu; 1 THE PRICE OF COTTON an Kt Spot cotton on the market in Abbe-. ? ville today sold for 31 to 31 1-2 tQ cents per pound, according to the ^ * grades. ia] y Cotton futures however sold down iej s today, October being at one time 140, re; s points below Tuesday's close. Octo-( co y ber finally closed in New York at 1 '? I :?o, aooui one Jiunuieu pumw uw-( t der the close of yesterday. New York' Ch 'spots were quoted at 30:50. ! th? EPS GULF; 3 T HIGH LAND 'exas Coast Get Back torm.?Slated to Hit ssissippi But May iv Timp WpafK. * ? vj flippers?New By Gale s i ' .l?'' ' . j instrument readings at the bum's widfely separated stations, lest me atmosphere freak should speed northward travel beyond the 12 les per hour of its noted rate. ' Changes Course. - Washington, Sept 21?The tropical * rricane sweeping the Gulf of Mejfr> was reported in a bulletin issued 10 o'clock tonight by fhe weather reau to have tyrned its c.ourse from rthwestward to northward and that nds of hurricane force would reThe bulletin issued by the weather reau said: * "Change to hurricane warning, 9 m., Pensacola to New Orleans. Cen of hurricane moving northward* vards coast, probably west of Missippi river. Winds will increase and jnge to southeast and south by jdnesday morning reaching hurri- . v| le force high tide. Emergency, ad- f e all interests." Tide Rising Slowly > Galveston, Texas, Sept. 21?At 7 loek tonight the barometer here i remained stationary at 29.80 for 0 hours. The tide was rising slowly 1 fin appreciable swell was observ A twenty-mile northeast wind was . ? wing. . v*M ' Ninety-Mile Wind. Beaumont, Texas, Sept. 21?The , ^ If hurricane is sweeping toward s West Louisiana coast, according advices received by wireless from vessel 150 miles south of New Or,ns by the station at Fort Arthur. e velocity of the wind was reported I Continued On Page Four. , -jM ' :ague council does good work . tion Comes in Polish-Lithuanian < Crisis and in Question of . Aland Islands. Paris, Sept. 21.?The ninth session the council of the league of nans adjourned today after having lo'othed out difficulties between nr nations in controversies which one time theratened to result in ? ir. Through its action in the Polishthuanian crisis the council succeedin getting the two countries to '^4 r?e to an immediate suspension of stilities pending a settlement of sir disputes which both sides agreed accept. The Aland islands question likese is considered in a fair way for ttlement. A Finnish reservation lich at first appeared seriously to >ud the issue was explained as not 'ering an insurmountable difficulty d as having been made largely for jhnical reasons. League officials explained that, alough neither Finland nor Sweden is legally bound to accept the igue's decision they were morally und to accept it. It was further inted out that a settlement, "if eked by public opinion would vir-all" nr\mTml 99 ?*ijr MvwrVM..vv. Count Quinones de Leon, Spanish ibassador to France, and Baron slshiro Matsui, Japanese vice for? rn minister, have been appointed represent the league of nations in e settlement of the Polish Lithuanl question and it is expected that at ist a tentative decision will be ady for the approval of the league uncil at its October session. Ralph Lyon left last week for larleston to resume his studies at ? Citadel.