Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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& =ac Xocal l < flews! ___ !i : personals : ^ a j I ^ Hj, Miss Mary Aiken is visiting friends j in Greenville. 1 Mrs. D. A. Wardlaw, Jr., spent 1 Monday in Greenwood. 1 Mr. and Mrs. John Robt. Nickles, of i Donalds, were in town Tuesday. Billy Morrison of Long Cane, was < here Wednesday for the circus. 1 Miss Mamie Wardlaw who has been1 nursing Joel S. Morse, returned to Pryor hospital Wednesday. ' . 1 Mrs. Frank McGee and Mrs. R. L. j ^ ? atp visitine 1 i unrgau ui v*...- _ relatives in the city. ? j Mrs. W. S. *DuPre spent last Sun- ? day in Atlanta with her mother, Mrs. e F. E. Eigenmann. i i Mrs. Henry Hagerman of Greenville is spending this week with her ^ mother, Mr. J. A. Harris. ? Mr. and Mi's. J. E. Palmer of iC Warrenton were in town today shopping ai.d attending the circus. r Mrs. Clifton Norman and son, ? I 't Claude, ai*e visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Eakin. I Miss Jane Shanks, of the Bethia , c section was a visitor in the city today. s c Mrs. A. J. Sproles of Greenwood, 1 was in town yesterday attending the A funeral of Mr. W. 0. Cromer. t Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Anderson and ^ daughter, Miss Beth Anderson, of * Antreville, were in town Tuesday. ;c > ! ? I ?? I Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Nickles were called to McCormick Tuesday on ac- ? count of the illness of their mother.jf S. J. Link and daughters, Mrs. Paul ^ Kennedy and Miss Mary Quark; . Link attended the funeral of William r Chiles at Bradley Tuesday. . I \ IW. E. Haddon of Level Land was j a business visitor in town today and j. renewed his subscription to the Press and Banner. i Mrs. Duncan Murchison of Fon-^ ville and her mother, Mrs. Mann, of j McCormick, were shopping in our j stores today. j ^ A. M. Power and Roger Williams!' came to town Wednesday to bring j the boys and take a look at the ele-!' phants. |1 David Leslie, of Camp Jackson,! spent the week-end near the city j! I J with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. j iv l.pslie. j i Dr. Bryson of Winnsboro is visit-1 ing Dr. and Mrs. Jack Pressly for a I few days and taking in the fine ser- j mons to be heard at the A. R. P. j < church. i The Fireband church (colored) at , the corner of Cherokee and Lane j streets, is being torn down to be re-' moved to a site near the S. A. L. I - shops. Mrs. Poster Calvert of Long Cane j is in the} city spwding th^ day with | Mrs. J. Coleman. MiOj^. vert and' his family are' here also, I J ?^11 in n? rpn 5 IaiiU will w?at Ait wiv vu.vMwt Mrs. H. P. Salley, of Brownlee,! was here today. She brought along j Mr. Salley and the children in order that they might see the circus. THE SEWING CLUB The Thursday afternoon Sewing j Club has been organized by about 14; young dames of West End. They ; will meet Thursday afternoon with! Mrs. John T. Cheatham, Jr., on! Ellis street. . I Legal Blanks for Sale Here.? j Thr Press and Banner Company. BIG FIGHT AT WATTS Magistrate Hollingsworth issued a warrant Tuesday for the arrest of Mary Wade and her sister, Emma Jeter, charged with an assault and battery with intent to kill. According to the the tale of prosecutor Thomas Cannon the two women came into the field where he and [lis wife were picking cotton, the assailants being armed with a bludgeon, pistol and knife, and undertook to do therti bodily injury. The negroes who were attacked left the field and went to Watts to board a train for Abbeville for the purpose jf swearing out a warant and were followed by their assailants who threatened to kill them if they came A) Abbeville for such purpose. Cannon and his wife were pretty Dadly used up in the encounter, fudge Hollingsworth will sit on the ;ase as soon as the defendants have JtTCli aucoitu. SPARK'S CIRCUS IN TOWN Sparks Bros. Circus hit town in ;he early hours of the morning. All ;he little boys about town went to jed early in order to get up and >ee them unload, but most of them, ike Son Bill, overslept themselves md will have to be content with ;eeing the parade and "going in," ike Candidate Cox believes in dong. A great many pai*ents are in town oday who wanted very much to stay it home and pick cotton, the men >f course outnumbering the wonen. The children wanted to see the ;lephant, and finally and after nuch persuasion, father got up ' * - ? *-* AfU/iO O n fl . any, put un ma ouxiuaj tivmvo, u..u hought mother never would get the :hildren ready to go, because he vas in a hurry to get hei*e and get jack home, he said,?after he had een everything. A good many men iuddenly wanted to sell cotton tolay. Some wanted to know how the narket was, others wanted to know vhen the bank notes would be due, tnd others still insisted on coming o town to get something for his vife, while some had toochache, oth;r hardened sinners called it Cir:us. But they all come, whatever the ixcuse. Cheap cotton and cheap cotton! ;eed does not keep the African away | 'rom the c'rcus. They commenced oming in by good daylight and -hey are still coming. The negi'o I jreachers, who collect when the nembers sell the cotton seed, may lot get all that is coming to them, )ut the circus people will. Tne Dig paraae xook piace at 10:30 and a great crowd of people standing on the curbs, sitting in the ip-story windows, oh tops of bales )f cotton, in trees and elsewhere :ook a look at the animals and at ,he pretty women horse-back iders, as well as enjoyed the music 3layed by the one cylinder steam aiano. The gates to the main show were opened at 2 o'clock, and the show is no\v in progress while we are at work. But there will be another 'sitting" tonight and we hope to be able to tell the story before we go to sleep again. DR. W. E. LINK VISITS Dr. W. E. Link of Willington, who does not exppect to get to heaven before he is a hundred, is in the city visiting his sons, Cols. S. J. Link and R. S. Link. No, he did not come to attend the circus, but to visit. While here he is an attentive listener at the fine preaching of Rev. Paul Pressly, at the Seceder church. SEARCH'FOR OWNERS PF LIBERTY BONDS * T * i. New York, Oct. 5.?Speaking at a military reunion dinner here tonight, Brig. Gen. N. M. Lord, chief of finances of the United States a"rmy, said his department in Wash ington has 4,000 Liberty Bonds, representing $275,000 which belong to soldiers who can not be found. The bonds have been held for two years and carry coupons representing $30,000 in interest. The department, he said, had been unable to reach the owners at the addresses which they had given and has appealed to the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus and other war organizations to help locate these men. COMISKEY GIVES !j PRIZE MONEY TO LOYAL PLAYERS J Chicago, Oct. 5.?Every member of the 1919 White Sox except the eight members of the club under indictment for conspiracy to "?i?rnv'? the world sex*ies last fall to Cincin- \ nati, Monday was handed a check c for the difference between the win- c ners'" and the loser's end of the r M>r'es. The amount is appioximatelv c j $1500 for each player. r The players who received the v money are Urban Faber, Byrd Lynn, f Ray Schalk, Richard Kerr, R. H. ^ Wilkinson, E. T. Collins, John Col- j lins, Havey McClellan, Harry Lie- j. bold and Eddie Murphy. Manager Gleason also was given d check ^ equalling in amount those given t each of the players. The money was given the players t by Charles A. Comiskey, owner of jthe league. a Ina letter to Manager Gleason t and to each of the players, Connskey said: r "I regret more than you the oc- j currences of the lDiy world series, j. The honest ball players are stronger j today than ever. r "As one of the honest ball players r of the Chicago White Sox team I e feel that you were deprived of the ^ winner's share of the world series j. receipts. I do not intend that you, i r i as honest ball players, shall be pe- e nalized for your honesty or suffer I j, by reason of the dishonesty of others. I therefore take pleasure in C handing you $1,500, the difference between the winners' and losers' share I wish you all the luck possible and hope that the future will bring tl nothing but happiness to you and f yours." p The players who received the b money signed a joint letter to the a "" " '-'l--- " - -1 I C "ians 01 atMiumcugaigireceipt of the money and praising I h Comiskey's generosity. BIG CRIME INCREASE t; it Macon, Ga., Oct. ;>.?More than ^ 110 mer charged with illicit making J? of liquor will be arraigned in the 11 United Sttaes district court during 11 the term which opened this moi'ning.'n Pleas of guilty are occupying the jc court's attention for the day,, more jt than forty of these being entered. * j c Almost 30 of these are in cases ^ i 2, where "moonshining:" is charged The criminal docket to be tried at this term of the court contains more than 300 cases, by far the largest number in the history of the court. | ?1? , h SINGING CONVENTION. j' v I1 The Abbeville County Singing con-)g vention will meet at Bell's church!. I t Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 16th ana * *? ; c i 17th. All singers and lovers of music \ are invited to be present. J. B. Hall, President. s t BIRTHDAY PARTY. Little Sarah DuPre celebrated her eighth birthday on last Wednesday by inviting in a number of her playI mates to spend the afternoon with her. After a jolly time playing games ( delightful refreshments were served. J ROOSEVELT DRAWS A ! VERY ROSY PICTURE j \ ! Says Support For Cox Is Now Ga- ( .? r> ? if & inering ureal momenium. I ( St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 5.?Franklin t D. Roosevelt, democratic vice presidential nominee, starting the ninth I week of his campaign here today, i declared the peak of the republican i hope hard been reached and passed \ ' and that support for the demo- s j cratic ticket was now gathering mo- s mentuiji which would sweep Gover- i nor Cqjx into the presidency next month.1 Mr. Roosevelt arrived here < early today after conferring with I Govenor Cox on the latter's special 1 train between Terre Haute and ] Indianapolis yesterday. I "The outstanding feature of the J last weeK," ne saia, "nas Deen me s rousing of the interest of the women i j voters in the campaign, especially in j | those states where they have not ' I had the franchise before. < "Then sense the important dis- ] , tinction that, in iew of the split in i the republican party, to vote for Mr. < j Hading will be the vote against the ] j league. Governor Cox told me that s I he had found the same tremendous i swing in the west in the past 10 ' I days." t j * APS WILL DISCUSS SITUATION IN U. S. deeting To Be Held In Tokio On October Eleventh?Sound Advice Is Given. Tokio, Oct. 5w?Arrangements lave been made by the- standing :ommittee of the oppositions party >f the house of peers for a general neetingHo be held on October 11 to liscuss the anti-Japanese movenent in California. Among those vho have taken part in making ilans for the meeting is Marquis' To;ugawa, a prominent member of the 'apan Red Cross Society. It had >een decided to request the presmce of Masono Hanihra to make a letailed report on negotiations with he United States. , Professor Hayashi, counsillor of he foreign affairs office, is quoted >y the newspaper Hochi Shimbun in in interview relative to the situaion. "The best way to settle anti-Japalese questoins," he is quoted as say ng, 'is to appeal to tne sincerity ana o the fairness and good will of the American people. Japan should renember California is not all of Anerica, where I believe sympathy ixists for the Japanese in connecion with movements against mem>ers of our race. Above all a half entury of close diplomatic and conomic relations must not be-alowed to be stained with discord." :UBAN CANE CROP IS / INFERIOR THIS YEAR / Havana, Cuba, Oct. 5.?Prediction hat Cuba's cane crop would be inerior to the one of 1918 and that its roduct would not reach the market efore February, 1922, was made in bulletin issued last night by the ales commission which represents olders of a considerable portion of his year's unsold crop. ' In view of the loss of the crop in he Oriente region," the bulletin said the abandonment of many cane elds and the poor clearing up of thers, the delayed work in cane fields n general, especially that of preparng for the next crop, the sales commission believes, harvesting of the oming crop would be delayed and hat it will be inferior to the present ne, totalling approximately 3,300,*00 tons. It will not begin to reach he market hpfore February, 1922." * SAFE IS BLOWN Athens, Ga., Oct. 5.?The iron afe in the office of the Seaboard Ur Line depot in this city was ilown by expert safe crackers shorty after midnight Sunday morning, md the whole amount of cash conained therein, . about $2,500 wa% tolen. Nothing else in the office vas damaged. 5ENAT0R BORAH TO REMAIN IN HARNESS Vires Harding He Will Not Kick Out Of The graces?But I? Against League Marion, Ohio, Occ, 5.?In answer o widely published reports that senator Borah, a leader of the reaty irreconcilables, soon would ;uit the republican campaign, Senaor Heading's headquarters here nade public today a telegram in vhich Mr. Borah declared he would :ontinue to wok for epublican suc:ess. The message, addressed to Sena;or Harding, was as follows: "In view of reDorts I wish you to enow my speeches in future will be ilong same lines as at Dayton an& n the senate. I want to see you vin and I want to see the league scheme defeated. In my own way I shall devote my time to the ichievement of both propositions." Senator Harding already has deilared that Senator Borah's declaration in campaign speeches met with lis approval, and he renewed his prediction today that throughout the remainder of the campaign he ' '' -1- 1 J T- - ? 1 inu ivir. Jtsoran wouia dc iuuhu speaking in accord. The nominee ilso revealed that in his next public iddress, which is to be delivered Thursday at Des Moines, Iowa, he jxpects to develop a step further lis position on the league issue. Senator Harding would make no :omment today on the statement of President Wilson, appealing for support of the league, but said that n his Des Moines address, he would 'devote some attention to the mater." BHHHHHI * % Vi WHY WE ASK YO YOUR / This is a SAFE bank; no and backing, but safe also yet progressive policy and creasing resources and bus It gives its customers e I and assistance that a good INTEREST PAID < ?Planl "The Friei The Home of Over BYRNES NOW ON STUMP Washington, Oct. 5.?Representative James F. Byrnes of Aiken passed through Washington today on his way to Maryland tp speak in the interest of the Democratic candidates. The week beginning October 11 will be spent in New Jersey, and that folOPERA Friday & I '"HUMORESQUE!" H i: WAS PLAYING IT AGAIN > AND T II E Y HAD THOUGHT HIS GLORIOUS MUSIC STILLED FOREVER! dm s\ v\ r\ I i t ^ v V-uoim v/ i1WUI "HUMOF r A PHO feai Alma I j&Cparamowil Fannie Hurst's Beaut genius and a motehr' the clamor of New Y I to the heigths. Then story that cries to hi laughs to hide its tear More Pathos than More Fun Th Perlr I ADMISSION i i 4 U TO MAKE THIS BANK / t alone in financial strength* * because of its conservative because of its steadily ininess. ivery convenience, comfort i bank can give. c ON SAVINGS/ :ers Bank i , idly Bank." 900 Bank Accounts. I 1 T? J? 1f_ T> lowing in inaiana. irir. cjmea is looked upon as one of the leading men on the minority side of the house in congress and his replies to statements of Republicans at the last sesj sion reagrding Democratic waste and | extravagance are not being widdy used as campaign material in the j fight now on. J, HOUSE Saturday i prc d uc.tson sx4 IESQIJE TOPLAy Wring Cubans sirk. itQicture r " " ? w iful story of a boy's s love. Beginning in j ork's Ghetto. Rising ! . ending?where? A de its laughter and s. -r> 1 w ? Vi ir. ?? l iie Music ivissrer;" an "Potash and nutter." 15 and 35cents. )