University of South Carolina Libraries
' . ) -v-? t - * Abbeville Press and Banner EaUUial^d lS1/l- $2.00 th? V^r Tri-Wpgklv. Abbeville, S. C. 1 Monday, October 11, 1920. Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. HARDING STARTS FOR HIS HOME MAY GIVE UP PROPOSED J SPEAKING TRIP INTO EAST? , HITS FRONT PORCH TODAY. ( WILL LEAVE SOON FOR SWING THROUGH BORDER } STATES. MEETS POLITICAL , ADVISERS. j On Board Senator Harding's ' Train, Oct. 10.?Senator Harding j took a twenty-mile joy ride today on his way back to Marion from his Midwestern speaking trip. Accepting an invitation from the engineer, the Senatof and Mrs. ' Harding mounted to the locomotive ^ cab at New Franklin, Mo., and emerged again at McBain, twenty ^ miles away, spattered with oil and dust, but smiling and declaring they j 1 - fViflir fiac! Deen navmg uie nmc wx j lives. By taking the locomotive ride the , candidate and his wife missed a couple of the crowds that turned out ; at railway stations all the way along r the route of the Harding train. In j many cities during the day they had , shaken hands and exchanged greet- , ings with hundreds who flocked , around-their private car and at several stops the Senator made short j talks, urging observance of the j Sabbath and deeper religious rever ence among Americans. Except for j the short stops and a lay over of ^ three-quarters of an hour in St. .Louis tne naraing' untm was iuu^u j for a continuous run from Okla- i homa City, Okla., where he spoke j last night to Marion, where he will j arrive tomorrow afternoon. He will j leave again twenty-fou hours later for a swing through the political , border States. t With his political advisers on the j train the candidate discussed again ( today the question of an Eastern j speaking trip in late October. An address at Buffalo on 6ctober 21 < Vino Vinnn onnnnnwH Hilt it Oli^aujf uao i/wii uui>ww..wv.r w- ? was indicated tonight that the whole plan to go into the East might be given up. 1 Holds public Reception ( Despite his three days of whirl- ] wind campaigning, during which he < made more than forty speeches in 1 Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri 3 and Oklahoma, Senator Harding was j up early today and at 7 a. m. greet- < ed a crowd at Coffeyville, Kas. In < all he shook hands during the day i with hundreds, leaving his car in St. j Louis to hold a public reception for J a great crowd. i In all of his speeches Senator 1 Harding prais#d the religious and i moral influence in American life ? and said he wished there were more of it. j "Of course, you do not expect me to make a speech this morning," he said to the crowd at Sedalia, Mo. 3 "We in America are very insistent 1 about the observance of the pro-1' prieties and the reverence with j1 which we keep the Sabbath Day. But it would not be ungodly and \ would be patriotic if I talked to you 1 about one or two things I think de- J sirable for our common country. "I had rather be on the safe side with people inclined to piety and religion, because these are the things we need a little more pronounced in our national life. I remember that ( Washington said in his farewell address that we must never forget that morality and religion are hand maidens essential in the cultivation of the highest citizenship in this re-1. public." HORSES KILLED. Jewy McKenzie, of Honea Path had six horses killed by Southern Railway Company on his way home from Abbeville Saturday afternoon. Mr. McKenzie was here Saturday to conduct a sale of horses, and several which he did not sell were being taken back to his home. The animals were killed at a crissing this side oC that place. "UNERAL OF MRS. L. T. MILLER -leld This Morning at Presbyterian Church at 11 O'clock.?Interi ment At Long Cane The funeral, services of Mrs. L. T. Miller, who died at Charlotte, N. C., Friday of last week, were held in the Presbyterian Church at 11 o'clock :oday, being conducted by her old lastor, Dr. Jas. L. Martin, assisted by Rev. G. M. Telford. The funeral services were largely attended by the jeople of the town where Mrs. Miller lad made her home for so many years, and where she was so generally admired and loved. At the conclusion of the funeral services, the body was taken to Long Cane Cemetery, where in the pres ?nce of friends ana n^gny reiauvcs il ivas laid to rest to await the resurrection. The following friends of the famiy acted as pall-bearers: T. G. "White, I. S. Bowie, Horace R. McAllister, Charles Evans, Lewis Perrin and E. R. Thomson. Mrs. Miller's only son, H. LeRoy Miller, of Housto-n, Texas, Mrs. Miller ind their son, H. L. Miller, Jr., arrived in time to attend the funeral The following other relatives were iere to attend the services: Mrs. Jane W. Crymes Williamston; Mrs. D. S. Vandiver, Anderson; Mr. E. C. Crymes, Williamston; Mrs. George Wilson, Williamston; Mr. T. "V. Miler, Mrs. Lizzie Haddon, Mrs. W. W.' Sdwards, Mrs. S. L. Wilson and Mrs VI. G. Donald, Due West; Mr. and ? -- " ? Mrs. W. R. McUuen, i^aurens, i?u&s Lillie Miller Laurens. In addition to these the sisters of Mrs. Miller were here: Mrs. D. H. Wilder, coming from Richmond, and Vlrs. Mary Rearing from Athens. Miss Vlarcella Dearing, a niece was also lere. The following friends from Hartsrille came also to pay their last trublte to the deceased: Messrs William Killer, R. E. Snell, L. W. Dick, C. M. Causey and J. Pettigrew Evans and Mrs. A. P. Butler. STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE The following members of the >oard of visitors of the State Board >f Public Welfare have been appointed for Abbeville county by governor Cooper: the Rev. Louis J. Bristow, chairman; Mrs. Frank tickles and Dr. J. R. Power. The (\.ct under which this board is created provides that it shall be ,the duty jf the board to visit, inspect and report the condition of the county jail, chain gang and County home; md to take such further action as nay appear to be in the interest of ;he public welfare in matters comng under the jurisdiction of the State Board. CUTS HER HAND Mrs. Wm. P. Greene had the misfortune to cut her hand badly Sunjay afternoon. While raising a window with a broken pane of glass, a piece of the glass fell out striking tier right hand across the back and cutting a deep gash about two inches long. 'Dr. J. E. Pressly and Miss Reep were called in and attendto the wound. It was necessary to take several stitches. MRS. CADE DIES Mrs. L. 0. Cade, of Mt. Carmel died at the home of her son, Hon. John D. Cade, Thursday afternoon of last week, October 7th. Mrs. Cade was the widow of the late D. B. Cade, of"Georgia. She was the mother of Mr. Robert Cade who died some months ago and of Mrs. Bessie C. Frazier, formerly of Mt. Carmel, and the grandmother of Mrs. Ollie Watson of Calhoun Mills. Mrs. Cade was 80 years of age. CHIEF JUSTICE IN COLUMBIA Chief Justice Eugene B. Gary, went to Columbia today to be present at the convening of the fall term of the Supreme Court. The term of court will be in session until the Christmas holidays. ABBEVILLE HI GAME FRC v Likely Laurens Lads Lick Game Here Friday?Pli Provide Plenty of Pep By Abbeville High ? Win 13 to 0 in Si Poole Breaks School 1 FOR THE HOSPITAL. A1 The proceeds of the admission te fees of the Abbeville-Greenville pr football game next Friday, after to payment of expenses will go for th the benefit of the County Memo- Gl rial Hospital. The management ch urges that the people of the city eq attend in large numbers in order da to swell the amount going in hi this way. vi ag Laurens came; Laurens saw; but U1 Laurens didn't conquer. Brave fight- pt^ ers they are but Abbeivlle was a bit ba too much for them and they went ar down in glorious defeat, not being m able to register a single touchdown. Abbeville made two and kicked goal be successfully once making it a 13 to te 0 game. ha With a decided advantage in at j weight the Laurens boys might have ad I wnn 'Prirlsv's cramp had thev had the at j J - o ^ . I the benefit^ Swetenburg's coaching lie; for the same length of time Abbevillejyc has. From the style in which they in played we imagine the Laurens boys so do not attend practices like the locol tl< boys dt>. In no other one game does continual honest pracVsee contribute fo ?o perfect playing as in football, "t And right hero was* where Abbeville had it on the visitors, he Aobev'ile'ga team works like a piece of machinery ar.'; there is rarelv any attempts to gB puli any individual graustand stunts. re For this Coach SwetenOurg is re* ve sponsible and while we would hate awfully bad to lose "Swetie" yet we 0f are constrained to offer hist services to Clemson for a while for thy Tigers jy certainly need some good coach to Cl] whip them into shape. This was am ply demonstrated both in the P. C.- vj Clemson game and in the Newberry- ro Clemson game. Friday's game with the Laurens team was the hardest proposition Abbeville has been up against. Laurens, after one substitution in the sc line played excellent defensive foot- sn ball and their line held well at criti- ar cal times. The visitors also tended to b C put a crimp in Abbeville's previous habit of completing four out of five 1 M attempted forward passes. Donald Harris made the first touchdown for re | g, Abbeville on an end run and young Allen Long made the other through 1 ll? a weak spot in Lauren's line. George Smith w"ho was playing quarter for ar Abbeville managed his team well andiC| played the best ball he has so fari^1 /^nno Rio- flallmvav was back in Fri-|so day's game at center and while his 1S ankle is still not strong did good *" work. The tackling of Tate for Abbe- m ville, however, stands- out as the best individual work for the locals. For Laurens the honors go to fullback Woodside and to Capt. Bishop who played at right halfback. Poole, right end for Laurens, had the mis- D< fortune to fracture his arm at the at wrist when he attempted a tackle in be the second quarter. . v< The lineup: so Abbeville (13) Laurens (0) Barnwell, RE Poole, ne Barnwell, RE Poole vi Gallawoy, A. LE B^rksdale cc Leslie RT Jessee m Tate LT Ellis or Bradley, R. RG Goodwin al Klugh LG Babb "-11 D r< nipnn ' ijauuway, jj. vy ? . Smith, G. GB Allbright |al Harris RH Bishop (c) tr Gambrell LH Glenn, M. al Long, A. (c) FB Woodside fi< Touchdowns for Abbeville: Harris n< and Long. Goals from touchdowns, w ' Galloway B. Referee, Reames to (Clemson); umpire Clark (Hampden- as Sidney), headlinesman, M9rse, A. m GH WINS m LAURENS ed in Hard Foughl icky Pigskin Punters But Are Outplayed School Boys Who lappy Game.? Arm?Other Mews. bbeville Tackles Champions Friday rrL. A LI :ll_ L:?1. ..L./,! j. nt; Auuevnie iiigii stxiuui iuuu'<>u am goes up against the hardest oposition yet when the mountainrs from Greenville come down to e city for a game Friday. The reenville team won the up-state lampionship last season and have an [ually strong team this seaScr.. Fr:y past they defeated Anderson gh by a score of 31 to 0. Athene defeated the same team a week ;o by a score of 33 to 6. These liges give Greenville a shade on ihe Ids but Abbeville has never played ill before as they will do Friday in i effort to vanquish the sturdy ountain city team. It is probable that Billy Long will i able to resume his place at quarr Friday, .,and while George Smith ;s proven (himself no mean player this position yet Billy has had the [vantage of two previous seasons as larter for the Abbeville boys and is 3S likely to excitement than a mnger player. Big Galloway is again playing shape, Tate is in mid-sean form, the ends, Barnwell and liti Galloway are faster than ever and reenville will have all they want here the timekeepers' whistle sounds aps" Friday. I The attendance at the Laurens ,me Friday past was encouraging it the expenses of the Greenville ime will be double that of the Launs game and the boys would like ry much to see an outpouring of e whole city to the biggest game the season this coming Friday afrnoon. The game will start promptat four o'clock. Tickets can be seired in advance at McMurray's drug ore or the National Bank of Abbelle. Everybody come out Friday and ot for Abbeville to win. Tennis In Vogue. The new tennis court at the high hool building is rapidly being loothed down, the backstops fixed, id every recess and afternoon find ayers in a wating line for a racket, >th the stringed kind and the noisy nd. Son Bill Greene and Jimmie cComb are trying to hold the lauls of the seevnth grade and the radley boys with the assistance of illy Long, Big Galloway and others ive tried in vain to beat Mr. Fulp id Mr. Daniel. These latter two aims themselves to be some cham ons but Allen Haskell says just as on as he finishes weighing cotton he going to select a partner and make e schoolboys' hearts glad by triming the faculty to a farewell. I J. C. MARTIN DIES. June C. Martin died at his home at onalds, Sunday night, Ortober 10th, an advanced age. Mr. Martin has ien seriously sick for some two 2eks, and his life was dispaired of me days ago. The deceased was born and reared :ar Martin's Mill, on the Lowndeslle road. He lived all his life in this unty. Several years ago he was arried to a Mrs. Tollison. She with le son, Mr. Eugene Martin, of Donds, survives. ? Mr. Martin has for many years 'on n nrnminpnt fienre about Don ds. He has held the office of Magisate there for several terms, and has ways made a good and faithful of:er. Of late years *he has been con;cted with the Bank of Donalds and ith other enterprises in his home >wn, and the people looked to him i a man of good sense and judg ent. THE FRENCH PICNIC Held at Rapley Shoals Saturday Wat A Splendid Success and All Enjoyed the Outing. As had been announced, the French picnic was held last Saturday at Rapiey Shoals. The start was made from the Baptist church, being centrally located. The cars arrived at the Shoals shortly, after ten o'clock, with the weather fine and everybody wondering what was to be the next move. Much to the distress of the boys, a few of them were asked to help with the fire, but before much time had elapsed, the ambition had died down considerably. After a while the fire was moved to a sunny and hjlly spot, and Harris used some of his speed looking up pieces Of wood, while Roche was very ambitious to try Mr. Derbyshire's new scout axe. (There is one large nick in it bait we do not like to place any blame this early.) Everybody scattered in little groups of four or five, while a few boys were faithful enough to help with the fire. When the call for lunch camevat about 12:30 the French pu-j pils and the trusty football warriors j were very much in evidence. There! was lots of food and those who banked on charity of neighbors, werej abundantly rewarded. We saw Jack| Bradley find Mr. Derbyshire's bag of j apples, and thinking them to be hisj own, he readily made way with some; of them, and had capable assistance j in disposing of the rest. But Jack| made up for the depredation byj bringing as his share a box of 400 marshmallows. These latter were given out in groups of four a? a time, r 1 -1 i- O A A ... 1MMi. una auoui. ouu were seen mat, near. the fire with the other 300 which the| class brought there were merry ^imesj near the fire at supper. When everybody had a plenty, someone suggested a swim, and withi Mr. Derbyshire in the lead, a group j of satisfied little Frenchies and| Swetenburgars made for the swimming hole| We all had a firtfe time, and! Bruce Galloway basked for some sayj a half hour up to his neck in water to j which to the rest of us was too coldi for words. In the later afternoon, j Edwin Barksdale and* his teacherj started off in search of some things ( which the game warden did not know about, but fortunately for them, thej hunt was unsuccessful. Later on they went for a hunt but all they saw was one partridge and a shy dove. Outside of the thorns in Barksdale's feetj we came home as empty as we hadj gone. . j mnn A .OA fU A A O XT ! OUpjJCl wad au i.uuj anu waac \*t*j was rounded out by the toasting of the rest of the 700 marshmallows. Then Mrs. Derbyshire thought of the pound of bacon which had been brought along, but few could be found to eat the "raw stuff." When Tate and a few others smelled the odor of bacon, there was a rush which put the best that the football me* could do, to shame. All the pound of bacon went, and Hutie and the rest looked for more, but there was none to be had. At 5 the start home was made, and the 1 lcars reached the Square at 5:30 not much the worse for wear, and a great deal better for the nice time that they all had. THE COTTON MARKET The cotton market was weak "again today. December futures in New York closed at 20.65, which was 30 points down from Saturday's close. New York spots were down 100 points, to 23. cents. The local market was weak also, cotton selling from 23 to 24 cents, most of it at the former figure. FIRE IN COSBY TOWN Fire broke out last night in Cosbytown laSt night about 10 o'clock, the house occupied by Tom Robinson and belonging to L. A. Richie, Col., being entirely consumed by fire. The next house also belonging tn T?i/?Viip nnrl nrpnnied bv Clara Richardson was damaged by the fire but through the efforts of the fire department was finally saved. The house destroyed was a five room frame building. 7,000 BALES OF , COHON BURNED COMPRESS AND WAREHOUSES DESTROYED IN MILLION DOLLAR BLAZE WHICH OFFICERS CHARGE TO FIRE BUG?FAR. MERS WARNED NOT TO PICK STAPLE WHILE PRICE IS BELOW 40 CENTS PER POUND. Cameron, Texas, Oct. 10.?Loss estimated at $1,000,000 was caused by fire here today which destroyed 7,000 bales of cotton and the compress and warehouses of the Came- ^ ron Compress Company. Officers and the watchman employed at the compress expressed V> the opinion that the fjre was of incendiary origin. The Ncompress was protected by insurance but farmers who had cotton in storage are,expected to lose heavily. The compress was owned by A. J. Dossett, of Waco, who lost J 1 1 I S\ 1 1 anoiner press Dy lire ai yuanan less than a month ago. The Rockdale Fire Department came'to the assStant of the local firemen and aided in saving 1,500 bales of cotto*. 1 The San Antonia and Arkansas ; Pass Railway lost 327 flat and 437 compressed bales and Sante Fe 27 -.? J -i Art j m 1? xiat uaiea a-iiu pressea. iwentyseven cars were destroyed. Authorities are investigating a story that an automobile was seen near the press and driven away at high speed just before the flames broke out. ? \ * Governor Kilby Offers Reward Atlanta, Oct. 10.?Farmers in Nothern Alabama, where several ginneries and mercantile establishments have been warned that if they attempt to pick their cotton while the staple is selling for less than forty cents a pound it will be destroyed in the fields. This new de- " ~ velopment ii^ the attempts of night riders to keep cotton to keep cotton 1 off the market while it is bringing less than what many planters term the cost of production, has been repoted to Conrad W. Austin, Alabama law enforcement officer, by > State Fire Marshal W. J. Williams, who is investigating fires in the Haneville section. Warning which continue to be received by the gin operators and ' business men ordering them to close their establishments have been brought officially to the attention of the authorities and the Governors of several States have received appeals for potection. v Governor Kilby, of Alabama, tas announced that the State would pay a reward of $250, for the arrest and conviction of any one implicated in the destuction of property and the Morgan County branch of the American Cotton Association at a < a meeting yesterday in Albany voted ' a reward of $200 for the conviction of any person guilty of such acts in Morgap County. Night Riders Active The night riders also have been active in Georgia and the receipt by operators at Toccoa of warnings that their plants would be destroyed if they did not close down for sixty days has resulted in the posting of armed guards about their premises with instructions to shoot to kill if an attemtp is made to carry out the threat. The American Cotton Oil Company and the City Council . of Ellaville jointly have offered a W/Vtton <? O A A ^/VM rtWWAof am/] ICWOIU UJL ?puuu ll/l I/11C wuu conviction of persons who attempted Friday night to fire the Ellaville gin operated by the corporation. In Jasper County four gins have been posted, the night riders threatening to destroy them if they do not close until cotton reaches forty cents. BOOK CLUB. / . I , The Book Club will meet Wednesday afternoon at fouv o'clock with Mrs. Frank B. Gary.