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3F'?: ' . j.:.... ,r.? ....... . ... ' . / ' . ' > 'r ' . . ' ' ' ' 4 ~ ,4- -> \ Abbeville Press and Banner f Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Monday, September 27, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year, fli BUM OF CENSUS GIVES THE COUN THE FIGURES OF THE POPUL, TION OF ABBEVILLE AND A! BEVILLE COUNTY AS REVI ED SHOW SMALL INCREASI GENERALLY. CALHOUN FALI SECOND TOWN IN SIZE ] COUNTY, DUE WEST TAKIN THIRD PLACE. The Bureau of the Census, of t! Department of Commerce, has i sued revised figures on the popul tion of the City of Abbeville ai Abbeville County. The population the City of Abbeville is given at t figures announced first in Abb -iii_ v.. rr>v~. r>?n?nnl V111C uy AUC A iCOO ouu A/wititv 4,570, as against 4,459 in 1910, ai 3,766 in 1900. The population of the county given at 27,139 as against 34,81 ten years ago ,the decrease beii due to the fact that we lost conp erable territory to McCormick whi that county was created. The population of Abbevil Township is 7,299 as against 6,9! in 1910 and 6,457 in 1900. Ced o?1 ocq. 4??jLiuga xvvriisiup iiao as opposed to 1,679 in 1910, the d crease being due to the cutting o of a portion of this township in McCormick County. Donalds Tow ship increases from 2,506 to 2,65 Due West township from from i 191 to 3,359, while in Long Cai the increase was from 2,599 to ' 855. Lowndesville township lost tl ten" years ago figures being 3,1 j and the present figures being i 842. Magnolia increased from c 380 to 3,405. Smithville decreasi from 1,351 to 1,056. PoIUaiiti TTollo fol'QC ife t\1qaa x uiio taivto A wo piavc I the second town in size in tl county, th'? increase being from 25 to 898. The town of Donalds i creased in the ten years from 268 310, while Due West has 702 . I against 672 ten years ago. Lowfide ville went down from 350 to 271. JUDGE LYON BETTER. Friends of Judge J. Fuller Lyi will be pleased to know that he is ii proving. He suffered a fall recent and for a time was in a serious co dition. He is in a local hospifc Judge Lyon is one of the best kno-* Confederate veterans in South Car iina.?The State. COTTON GOES DOWN. The cotton market went all t way today. October futures in N( York closed 200 points below Satu day's close. The closing figures we 23:65. New York spots and New 0 leans spots went down from 28 to ! cents. The weakness is due largely to tl determination of the government n to extend credit for the purpose enabling producers to hold the , crops off the market. The Texas pe pie seem to be panicky and are rus ing thir cotton on the market. The best price for cotton paid < the local market today was 26 cenl GOING AND COMING Mr. E. Z. Crowley, who has bee with the National Bank for som time, and who previously was co: aected with the J. M. Andersc Company, has resigned his positic with the bank and will return to h home in Carrollton, Ga., where 1 will engage in the mercantile bus ness with his father. His brother, Mr. J. 0. Crowley < Carrollton, is in Abbeville and w: succeed his brother as book-keep* for the bank. Mr. E. Z. -Crowley has mac many friends in Abbeville sin* coming here by his gentleman bearing and his strict attention 1 business. They will regret that 1 leaves us but will welcome his brot er as a new citizen. / WILL NOT BREAK TREATIES, SAYS WILSON ??? I Congress Exceeded its Authority in S Ordering Any Such Move, Says H Chief Executive.?Precedent Found. k* Washington, Sept. 25.?President ] B* Wilson has declined to; take steps toS ward termination of certain comraercial treaties as directed by Congress -S in the merchant marine act, holding N that "such a course would be wholly 'G irreconcilable with the historical respect which the United States has shown for its international engagehe ments." is- Formal announcement of the Presa ident's decision and the reasons imid pelling it was made today at the ] of State Department. The merchant ma- l he rine act as approved by the President I e- on the closing day of the last session ! sr, of Congress directed the Executive < id within ninety days to give notice to 1 foreign nations of the intention of i is the United States to terminate any i 34 sections of existing commercial ! ig treaties which restrict the right of < d- the American Government to impose i sn discriminatory charges on shipping in foreign bottoms. , le Exceeded Its Authority. , )9 The President in declining to com- ] ar ply with the directions of the act, the i ile State Department's announcement j e- said, also held that Congress exceed- , ff ed its authority in giving such direc- , to tions. Secretary Colby is quoted in ] n_ the announcement as superintending ] 0. President Wilson on this point, citing i )r as ? precedent the action -of President ] ie Hays in 1879 in refusing the demand , j j of Congress that a treaty with China ] be abrogated. The power of modify ie ing treaties, President Hays said, is Li not lodged by the constitution in j ). Congress. 1 j _ Termination of the thirty-two treat- ] .j ies affected by the act, the President < -U . 1 was said to have held, "would amount Qe to nothing less than the breach or aS N l _ violation of said treaties which cover ie every point of contact and mutual n_ dependence which constitute the Aiodto ern relations between friendly 0_ States." as REV. MR. SMITH HERE ????? Rev. John Andrew Smith, the Presbyterian evangelist who conducted the meeting at Lebanon the on present summer, passed through Abbeville today on his way to his home ^ in Statesville, N. C. Mr. Smith has n" been holding services for the Presbyterians at Lowndesville and closed his meeting last alight. Mr. and Mrs. ?" Charles Evans and the Misses Evans went to Lowndesville yesterday to hear the closing sermon, and persuaded Mr. Smith to come by Abbeville on his way home, he !W| COLUMBIA VISITORS lr_ I Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Todd came up T6 from Columbia Saturday 'and spent ? ~ the day with Mr. and Mrs. Foster | McLane. Mrs. Todd has a position in the Columbia schools and is E16 meeting with marked success in her ot , work. of 'ir VISITING IN CITY o- h Mrs. W. D. Wilson, of Abbeville the house guest of her niece, Mrs. 3n Joseph Everett. ?Spartanburg te. Journal. SUNDAY VISITORS. N Mrs. A. M. Bailey, Mrs. W. C. * Bailey and Messrs Herman and Tom 1 Bailey, of Anderson, spent Sunday in * 6 the city with Mr. -and Mrs. Arthur ? fl- r Link on Chestnut street. >n q )n KEEPING UP WITH THE NEWS is Edward Clinkscales,' youngest son e ae of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. F. Clinkscales, ^ >1_ of Monterey, left last week for Bam * berg where he will enter Carlisle Fit- * ting School. Edward intends to keep 1 up with the news at home for he ^ gr wrote his father to send him' The 1 Press and Baijner. A le I :e DICK PARKER SICK ' I ly The young boys of the seventh I to grade are missing Dick, the young r le sOn of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Parker, h- who is kept at home by an attack of 1 malaria. t * * AT LOWE Lor Pastor of Lower Long Cai Of Sermons on Peace, J Christian?Party Fro] tend?Church of Mc tury?Interesting C Story of Irishman Dr. Hem In Friday afternoon's Press and an Banner an invitation from Rev. R.'as Foster Bradley to the people "for! Hi forty miles around" was published'at by which all were invited to attend j Li services at Lower Long Cane yester-jde day, the preacher anouncing in the th invitation that he would commence a th series of sermons on the "Peace, Joy th and Happiness" of the Christian, the pa sermon yesterday to be on "Disobedi- ba ?nt Women," with particular reference to the suffragrette. CI Col. W. A. Calvert had no sooner read the invitation than he determin- Wi id that he would attend the services. W( Running through his mind the men ec* who, he supposed, would be interested In the subject along with himself, he ^ decided to take along with him a few ho if the down-trodden men of the com- ^ munity to the end that they might near the Word preached as it is ^ ivritten. Accordingly, early Saturday m< norning he invited Ruler?Albert Henry, Col. Patrick Roche, Capt. Jack by Perrin and the editor of the Press aSi md Banner to accomnanv him. I w* At 9:30 o'clock sharp he was in ^ front of the City Hall determined to ae on hand to-hear it all, and prompt[y at the appointed hour his co-conspirators appeared and took a seat in :he new Davis car in which Col. Cal- ^hi fert rides nowadays, and in a few^ es1 ninutes the party was on the Snake Pa Road headed for the place of preach- w* ng. be We had not gone far before Col. \ , i m( Patrick Roche began to open up ai /olume of his ancient history, which he was ably seconded by Capt. Perrin. Just beyond Rock Buffalo to . :he right, Capt. Perrin pointed out to ^ is the old house in which his grandfather Livingston was born, and a ittle way beyond we came to the 1 stc esidence of Mr. David Wardlaw, . > n\ vhen we were informed by Col Roche ^ ;hat the place was first settled by an ^ Englishman named Jackson, who was i cabinet maker, and who too was ;he grand-father of Mr. Lewis A.' Fackson and of Capt. Brown Syfan ^ >f the Southern Railway, and the T6< )ther Syfans of Abbeville. Beyond Wr ;his we passed the Thornton place, , by ;he Watson lands, bhe Mountain SG< Church, where John Neel. (col.) is , dr< :lass leader, and to the home of Mr. 311 Gorman Cason, which was built as Dol. Roche informed us, by a man lamed. Lites, who married a daughter wh >f Mr. Samuel Jordan, a prominentj nan of the section ? good many rears ago. Further on we passed the PU ' . , gn istate lands of Judge Thomas Thomma ion now owned by his son Dr. S. G. yo rhomson, of Abbeville. When we had reached the forks of ro< he road at Bethia church, Col. Roche ,. chi nsiste<J that we "bear to the left," S61 )ut Col. Calvejt averred that there vas no bearing to be done, that the ^ eft was the straight road, which imounted to the same thing, except ?, % JlJ^ hat it furnished the Rich Young Rul- ^ ;r a chance to say that the two would J wa lever agree even when they mean the], ji < ? Iho' lame thing. We passed the Wilson place, which) it her death belonged to Mrs. Jane Wa C6I 3atterson, formerly Mrs. Wilson, and at 3ol. Roche told us of her first hus ;ar.d, of the tragedies in the familyj0" ind other matters of history. On the eft is the fine plantation of Col. W. ^av iV. Bradley, which Col. Roche told us vas formerly in possession of "Billj^' S'eel, who moved to Florida," the!ot' ilace having been given to Mrs. Neelj^01 >y her father, Mr. Samuel Jordan *j0 nentioned above. k10 Below this in Lindo, the home of|a^ Dr. William Ramsey Hemphill when ^ le was pastor of Lower Long Cane I V R tti CANE ie Commences Series t oy and Happiness of 3 m Abbeville At >re Than a Cen- c )ld Cemetery? ? , a Catholic?- , * iphill. \ d Cedar Springs, and later known r the Watson place. Here Gen. R. R. t *mphill was born. Col. Roche called ^ tention to the large white oaks at ^ ftdo, where the old Hemphill resi- N nee (since burned) stoodf saying 2 at the preacher's study was under j ege trees, and there he lambasted ? e Masons and Catholics as he pre- ; red his sermons for the next Sab- j th. ' t Next we came to the home of Mr. larles Dansby, where "Miller Mc isl&n once lived." Capt. Perrin , mted to tell it that Mfe. Dr. Millie, formerly of Greenwood, also liv- , t.hprp hut f!nl. Rnrhe kn#>w hetter. issing the negro. Baptist rhurch on r e left, we came to the old McClane ^ mestead, formerly the property of ^ ivid McClane, who was the father s Mrs. Margaret Kennedy, of Due est, Mrs. Tommie Kennedy (the jther of Bob Kennedy, formerly eriff of this county, who was filled John Dansby a few days after he ^ sumed the office.) David McClane * is the grandfather of Foster B. r :Clane, the sheriff-elect of Abbele County, so that it appears that ^ e family have a liking for the of- v ? u The Hunter place was next, and|* en we came to the W. K. Bradley j tate lands of several hundred acres, h ssing as we went several places' ( xich had belonged to different mem-1 c rs of the McCaslan family,> but|s ne of whom now reside in the im-j ;diate section. We were informed L Col; James E. Taggart whose mo-1 c er was a McCaslan and who was j, e of the first men we saw on reach- s 1 Long Cane church that all the Mc- c islans had died out, or had moved t 'ay. v Turning to the left at the old homo- . >ad of W. ,K. Bradley, we soon ar- t red at the old church. It is one of ? s 2 most picturesque in the country, le present building was erected my years before the war. It is of ^ ime construction, with four large ^ irinthian columns in front. Inside j ceilings are high and along the ir anri tn the si Hps are the naileries ^ rich before the war were occupied a the negro slaves. The church will 0 it on the lower floor some six hun v ed people. The windows are large, * d the sash instead of being of two h ;ces are of one, which slide to the s le between the ceiling and siding, a ten the windows are to be opened, v ie pulpit is rather highter than the c lpits now-a-days, and on either side ; small rooms cut off from the q tin auditorium. At the rear too, as 11 enter the church on the right, d under the stairway, is a small ^ ?m where the mothers may take the ^ ildren when they grow tired of the ? vices, if ever. ^ Only a few people had gathered ^ ;re when we arrived, principally od women of the community, who e the good women of the Biblical ^ ys vyrere all on hand when work s to be done for the Master. Soon, wever, the congregation began to t< ther. Col. Roche and the others a Iked through the interesting old tl netery and stopped here and there c< the grave of a friend who had gone p before. There lie the ancestors of c< ; bradleys, tne urays, tne wara- n vs, the Morrahs, the Widemans, d ; Watkins, the Youngs, the Danss, the McCaslans, and of many iers, whose names are still to be and on the church roll of Lower ng Cane. In fact as the congregan gathered we noted that practic- ^ y every person who came was a jr scendant of the people who have ^ (Continued On Page Eight.) n :lemson college h ADDS DEPARTMENT H direction of Student Affairs To Be Under Prof. D. H. Henry? Long Been Needed. Clemson College, Sept. -26.?With q. he beginning of the pre&ent college rear perhaps the most noteworthy :hange in the general organization s t^he creation of. a new department >f the college, to be known as the lepartment of student affairs, vhich will handle practically all of he matters pertaining directly to he student life of the college ex:ept, of course, the military disci>line. Heretofore, such matters as sa he management of the student mess tii he student hospital, the various m voluntary student activities, etc., cj vhich have not been organized into jr i special department, ha^ve been cc n charge directly or indirectly >f the registrar or the president, m vhose other duties have made it .. -- <Xi lard for them to give special at- n) ention which those matters deserve: The he^d of the new department p, s Prof. D. H. Henry, who is pecu- ga ialy fitted for this work. He is a w graduate of Clemsqn -College and jn lasjbeen in the service of the -insti- aI ution for 20 years in the depart- w aent of chemistry. He has always w >een in close touch and sympathy vith student life and has those per- -,< onal qualties which make him ad- >pt nirably fitted to direct .the student ^ iffairs. m Working under Professor Henry's fa lepartment the new mess officer, J. gi ). Harcomb, w\ll have charge of the hs ness hall, the laundry and the col- Hi ege hotel. Mr. Harcomb comes to wl ]lemson from New York, where he ui pas mess officer of the United ch >tates general hospitals on Staten sland. ' . pi As already announced, the cadet gi lospital , will be in charge of Dr. m reorge Dawson Heath, wko sue- in eeds Dr. A. M. Redfera as college ej urgeon, m Several voluntary activities, in- m luding athletics ,the college publi- ^ ations, etc., will also be supervised 13 iy Professor Henry as a part of the gl tudent affairs department. At a reent meeting of the board of trus- ^ ees a general student activity fee ke pas provided for, all students pay- bi ng this fee upon entrance, and hereby automatically becoming in ome degree participants in those ^ ctivities. The fee includes member- tri hip in the athletic association and T. M. C. A., subscrptions to The ar "iger and The Chronicle. Another phase of Professor Ienry"s work as director of student SG ffairs is that of acting in capacity n f dean of students so that his office ne /ill be a sort of clearing house fbr ^ he various individual and colen jctive student problems. Such a po- ^ ition as this has long been needed Cl( nd it is believed that much good rill result from his work in this ., Pr apacity. is re; :apt. perrin to the rescue in ; is Capt. J. L. Perrin, * who always pj, as the interest of the women at c0 eart has the following letter from jei Lttomey General Wolfe, which e(j hould set at rest the "jury duty" -pj. ilk among the women: - wj The letter of the attorney general > Mr. Perrin is as follows: Dear Sir: "Replying to your inquiry of yes- ' jrday as to whether or not women ^ re eligible to jury duty, / I advise ^ iiat Section 22, Article V of the Q? onstitution prescribed that the etit jury of the circuit courts shall ^ onsist of 12 men. The 19th amend- t lent to the federal constitution . we oes not alter this requirement." ?r( MRS. NORWOOD RETURNS Gl ori Mrs. Ellen Norwood is at her post in t the Library after spending the sum an ler in Hendersonv.ille, N. C. Dur lg Mrs. Norwood's absence the Li rary has been under the efficient Er lanagement of Miss Mary DuPre. cit tin sis NATION 12,000,000 I I I ? , OVERNOR MILLIKEN OF MAINE GIVES FIGURES FOR FIRST YEAR?ONLY UNDER. TAKERS LOSE IN BUSINESS. sIN ADDITION TO SAVING OF NATION'S WEALTH, CRIME AND' SUFFERING DECREASE. LABOR IS IMPROVED. Washington, Sept. 26.?P^ohibian was credited with producing a 'H^lf iving of $2,000,000,000 for the naon in the last year by Governor illiken of Maine in addressing the osing session tonight of the 15th iternational Congress Against Aliholism. an "Prohibition," he declared, "has ade most kinds of business better id has injured no legitimate busi- Jj ;ss except that of the undertaker." "The three outstanding results of ohibition," he continued, "are the iving of about $2,000,000,000 a'|| aste in expenditure, a tremendous j crease in the efficiency of labor id a startling decrease in. erim? ith its attendants poverty and retchedness. "From the standpoint of practical / ||| jvernment, however, the most im>rtant contribution that prohibi- * ' iff an has made to the welfare of the --.M ition is to be found in the simple .;|S ,ct that a new generation will be owing up untainted by the liquor ' . tbit, and unhampered by the contions of squalor and wretchedness hich.the liquor habit has N imposed jon so many thousand innocent ? ' tildren in the past. "The supreme importance of pro- V. |j| ohibition lies in the fact that it ves the average boy and gfrl in Aerica a better chance to grow up to a citizen and because the very .||1 :istence of our form of govern- ; ^ ent depends upon the deveiopent of that sort of citizenship in> e coming generation, prohibition entitled to rank as one of the | eat safeguards of national life." ^ Referring to the economic benets of prohibition, Governor Milliin declared that the nation's drink ^ % 11 formerly amounted to $2,000,10,000 annually, and this money, ! declared, "now finds its way into e normal channels of legitimate ade." "The grocers, the clothiers, \ nusement proprietors and the inks, he added, are getting the t>ney that formerly went for TJ/v4-a1? 4-ltof ^on/*io/] tllPTVI* inn. nuucio bimv iuuw>w? . Ives dependent on .the liquor busiss are doing theJ best busies in their history without it. Pro- j J bition has not only eliminated an ormous waste in expenditures, it it has greatly increased the effi- Jj ;ncy of labor. The average life of e laboring man is longer, under . $ ohibition, he does better while he I at it and works more steadily. A port from one large labor agency^ an industrial section is typical. It stated that one of 35,000 men em- % . Ja >yed by that agency when the untry was wet, the average lgth of time that the man remainon the job was less than 30 days. le average more than doubled th the first year of prohibition." DAVIS KERR, HISTORIAN Lexington, Va., Sept. 26.?The ' imbers of the freshman class of. -..-/'j ashington and Lee University ;ig ve honored John Davis Kerr, Jr., Abbeville, S. C., by choosing him itorian of the class at their annual iction of officers. Young Kerr en*ed Washington and Lee last [ iek, having graduated last spring < >m the Bailey Military Institute, j eenwood, S. C. , | Nearly three hundred men, a recd-breaking number, have enrolled the freshman class at Washington d Lee this session. Francis Mabry, who is attending skine, spent the week-end in the y with his parents. 1 ' v \ I