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Abbeville Press and Banner
Pctablished 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Monday, November 1, 1920 Single Copies, Five CenU. 77th Year.
LUCK BREAKS
FOR NEWBERRY;
' ABBEVILLE LOSES CLOSE GAME
TO NEWBERRY BY ONE POINT,
SCORE BEING 14 TO 13.?"TIS
VAIN TO QUARREL WITH OUR
DESTINY."?THORNWELL ORPHANAGE
PLAYS HERE FRIDAY
NOV. 5.?OTHER NEWS.
Master William Shakespeare says:
"What fates impose, that men must
? ? ? i mi.
needs abide." The Aooevnie mgu
school eleven went up against just
such a proposition as confronted King
Edward in Henry VI when he made
the above statement. With a perfectly
good game of football sewed up at
the close of the first half with the
team from Newberry Friday afternoon,
Dame fortune deserted the;
local team and her place was filled
for the entire second half by here
daughter, Miss Fortune.
In the beginning of the game Friday
Abbeville simply rushed Newberry
off their feet and scored the first
touchdown in less than three minutes
after the ball was first kicked off.
Big Galloway missed goal, however,
and the first quarter ended Abbeville
2; Newberry 0.
In the second quarter after outplaying
the visitors in every opportunity
Tate made another touchdown
for Abbeville and Gallowty's toe was
just right this time. Score at the close
of the first half; Abbeville 13; Newberry
0.
During the ten minutes intermission
between halves "Daddy" Longshore,
Vernon Peele and some say Prof.
McTyeire Daniel, wigwagged to the
Newberry team that they were three
gentlemen who either claimed New- j
berry as their native heath or else!
had resided in Col. Aull's town for a |
spell and they would like to see a
closer game, no matter how close so
long as they didn't beat Abbeville.
The message was delayed in transmission
until just before the second
half opened and when received by
the Newberry warriors it evidently
read "Abbevillio delanda est' or
or something similar for those Newberry
swamp rabbits came back
strong in that fatal second half and!
blocking a play attempted by BillyLong
knocked the ball from his I
hands in their onslaught and Parris
tVio rollinc nicskin for a
touchdown. Tarrant kicked goal making
the score Abbeville 13; Newberry
This vMs enough to state the pride
of "Daddy," Prof. Daniel and the
other preacher's son, Vernon, but
this lone touchdown just gave Newberry
a taste of blood and they didn't
stop until Hardman completed a pass
back of goal for a second touchdown.
Tarrant was again on the job and at
the end of the third quarter the score
was Abbeville 13; Newberry 14.
The fourth quarter was the most
cxciting of all. Both teams played for
all they were worth but the score re
mained the same throughout the quarter.
Billy Long took advantage of a
fair opportunity to kick a field goal
but missed going over the horizontal
bar between goal posts by six inches.
Several of Abbeville's regulars
were out of the game, George Smith,
Fred Leslie, Allen Long, Jr. Foster
Barnwell, Jr., and Ashby Galloway,
but Abbeville did not play the jambup
ball they have been playing against
other teams this season. All of us
have our off days and this was certainly
was an off day for the high
school eleven. The score might well
have been 20 to 0 in favor of Abbeville
and nobody surprised but fate
was agin' us. Jack Bradley playing
gaurd for Abbeville showed up well
in tackling and Tate was again a star
Tarrant was the shining star for Newberry.
One thing we are thankful for is
the fact that we have a return game
with Newberry, Friday, Nov. 12,
when we will bring home the bacon.
The line up in Friday's game was:
Galloway, B? C__ Boozer
Bowie, RT Thornton
Bradley, R. RG Barnes
Barnwell RE West
LETTER FROM DR. SWOPE
Former Pastor of Baptist Church In
Abbeville Meets Success in His
New Field In Philadelphia Interested
in Abbeville.
Sending in his renewal to the
Press and Banner, Dr. George W.
Swope, formerly gifted pastor of the
A 1-1 -I'- PViuV/tVi foil <5 H<5 of
ADUt;Vine uajitiou uumvu >v? ? ?
his work in Philadelphia, and writes
of Abbeville and Abbeville people
as follows:
Dear Mr. Greene,
j I am sending you $1.50 for the
renewal of the paper. We all read it
with great interest as it brings us
items of news from our many
friends.
Things are moving along nicely.
We have 54 additions in four
months of work. We have a nursury
for the kiddies during service, Camp
Fire Girls and Blue Birds bands for
the younger girls; Junior, Intermediate
and Senior B. Y. P. U. organizations
for the youths; a Men's Brotherhood
is in process of organizai
tion, all phases of woman's work, ad
infinitum. So you see I have gotten
into much work.
My mind often turns with pleasant
memories and in loving remembrance
to Abbeville. My two and a
quarter years there record a congenial
chapter in my life. I have just
noted with pleasure Chief Justice
Gary's convalescence, He is one of
the finest and most interesting men
I have ever met, scholarly without
being pedantic; profound without
being vain; brilliant without being
pretentious. Can't you manufacture
j some excuse for me to visit the city
| again?
Most Cordially,
Geo. W. Swope.
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Bradley, J. LG Zeigler
Tate LT __ __Caldwell
Bradley, H. LE Parrish
I Gambi;ell RH Spearman
(Harris LH Cromer
Long, B. QB Hardiman
Barksdale FB Tarrant
Referee, McMillan (Clemson);
umpire, Reames (Clemson); headlinesman,
Clark (Hampde-Sidney.)
Orphanage Here Friday.
The strong team from Thornwell
Orphanage that has defeated P. C.
scrubs will play Abbeville here Friday,
Nov. 5. This team averages better
than most high school teams and
will probably be the best team seen
here this season with the exception
of Greenville. Game called at four
o'clock.
Prof. Parkinson To Speak.
i Prof. B. L. Parkinson, State High
School Inspecor, has accepted an invitation
to address the next meeting
of the Parent-Teacher association
which meeting will be held Tuesday
afteroon, Nov. 11th, in the graded
school building. Prof. Parkinson recently
visited the Abbeville high
school and praised conditions there.
The entire program of this November
meeting of the parents and teachers
will be devoted to high school
problems.
i
.
j Dr. Whaling Speaks to High School.
By request the student body of the
Abbeville high school assembled in
the County Court House this morning
at nine o'clock and heard a splendid
address by Dr. Thornton Whaling oi
the Theological Seminary, Columbia
Dr. Whaling has been designated bj
the Y. M. C. A. to deliver addresses
to high school students on the ques'
tion of selecting their life work anc
his excellent talk this morning wa:
attentively heard by the high schoo
students..
I
Teachers to Go to School.
Supt. Fulp and Principal Danie
of the city schools have organized th<
graded teachers and the high schoo
I teachers into two classes which wil
meet for the first time Thursday af
ternoon in their respective building:
to study books on teaching method:
and pedagogy in general. The gradei
teachers' class will be lead by th<
superintendent and will first stud;
Robbins "The School as a Social In
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TEN CHARGED
WITH AON
TWO RESIDENCES, GIN AND
OTHER BUILDINGS BURNED IN
ALABAMA?FIRE ON SHERIFF
GOING TO GIVE AID?TWO
NEGROES KILLED BY OFFICERS
IN CLASH WITH BLACKS?
-tor? nor i ve At IT
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Montgomery, Ala., Oct- 31.?Ten
negroes are in the Montgomery
I county jail charged with arson as
the result of the burning last night
in the "Black Belt" district of the
county, about 20 miles south of
Montgomery, of the summer home of
Dr. N. H. McCrummell, the residence
of G. Gibson, the cotton gin of J. T.
Davis with ten bales of cotton and a
quantity of cotton seed, a grist mill,
several barns and negro tenant
houses.
Sam Watkins and Bim Lee, negroes,
were shot and killed by a
sheriff's possee shortly after midnight
after hey had fired upon an
automobile containing Sheriff Scoggin
and hree deputies. The sheriff
and his deputies were en route to
the scene to investigate the fires.
The outbreaks occurred on the farms
, of J. T. Davis ad M. S. Holton, white
farmers, but the negroes killed and
arrested are tenants and laborers for
the most part on an adjoining farm
and no motive is ascribed for the at
tacks.
The fires broke out simultaneously
| and a reign of terror ensued among
the families of the white farmers
who began telephoning the sheriff's
office for assistance. Responding
promptly Sheriff Scoggin, with four
deputies, set out for the scene in an
1 automobile which was fired upon
from the roadside as it approached
the locality. The sheriff's posse had
narrow escape from death and only
saved themselves by jumping from
i the car on the opposite side of the
road from whence the shots came and
falling to their knees. Using the automobile
as a shield they killed two
of the negroes and effected the capture
of ten others.
A hurried telephone call to the
county jail and police department
brought reinforcements and a dragnet
was quickly spread about the locality
but only two other suspects
were thereafter arrested during Sunday.
A strong guard of deputies is
J patrolling the affected scene tonigh
The governor's office has not as yet
been officially notified of the outbreak
and it is not expected that
, troops will be called out.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 31?Activities
of fire torch bands broke out in
Montgomery county anew Sunday
[ night when the cotton gin of M. E.
McLemore, nine miles from Monti
gomery was burned to the ground.
The burning of the McLemore gin
followed a Saturday night of maraud??
- ?l'.I. x. ??
, ing in wniun two negrues weic &uicu,
i two cotton gins, four houses, eight
barns, ten bales of cotton, two tons
of cotton seed ond 40 bushels of
, crushed corn were burned. Sheriff
i John L. Scoggin, and a possee of coun
i ty deputies and policemen arrested
- 20 negroes early Sunday morning, all
[ but six being released.
DEATH OF INFANT.
r
5 Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Evans have th?
. sympathy of their friends on accounl
| of the death of their infant daughtei
3 Annie Clark.
1
CHILD DOES NOT IMPROVE
The little daughter of Mr. and Mr:
1 Theo White which has been des
; perately sick for several days at th(
] White home on South Main streei
1 does not improve. It is suffering fron
. an attack erysipelas.
RED CROSS MEETING
s
j The annual meeting of the Re<
Cross will be held in the Counci
^ Chamber at he City Hall, Wednes
day afternoon at 4 o'clock. Officer
- are to be elected and other impor
tant business will be attended to.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ,
CAMPAIGN ENDS
BOTH SIDES CLAIM VICTORY t
AS CANDIDATES CLOSE (
SPEAKING TOUR? SOCIAL- t
ISTS EXPECT BIG VOTE? v
WILL HAYS CLAIMS 395 ELEC- *
TORAL VOTES. WHITE GIVES s
NO FIGURES. a
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New York, Oct. 31.?The presi- 5
dential campaign of 1920, waged h
principally around the League of t
Nations, formally closed Saturday
night. ii
Many of the leading figures of s
Republican and Democratic tickets 0
addressed audiences in the east and f
middle west. Sunday they took rest. *
Monday will bring the last toot of v
the campaign horn and the last flare
of red light. Tuesday will come the F
voting. r
But although on Monday there will s
be staged the final skirmish for *
n
votes, the real battle ended Saturv
day. It was marked, with expression
of confidence in victory from rival '
headquarters.
"The evidence of the overwhelm- *
ing Republican victory hourly in
e tit-11 ^
creases', was tne statement 01 w iu |
H. Hays, chairman of the Republi\
can national committee. "It is now
I
certain that the Republicans will
have a minimum total of 368 electo- *
c
ral votes. We will have a gTeatly in,
creased majority in the house and a
, substantial majority in the senate.' ^
White's Forecast
a
This from George White, chairman
of the Democratic national
, committee:
"Cox and Roosevelt will win. They
will have a party majority in the 4
senate and house.' <
Socialist headquarters, while mak- e
ing no claim of electoral votes, pre- 1
dieted that the party would poll the 1
largest vote in its history?3,000,- J
000 some leaders claimed. While as1
?ni4in? +>104- TYianv nf th<>ae ballots s
DOi UliLfjy VliMW , _ , , _
would represent party converts, So-1 c
cialist advocates also prophesied
that many would represent , a protest
vote against imprisonment or
'political prisoners' including Eugene
V. Debs, their own presidential i
candidate, now in the Atlanta peni- c
i tentiary for violation of the espion- r
age act. (
i All parties took into consideration 1
swelling of the vote by appearance I
of women casting their ballots for president.
i
Claims of Hay*. \
In his prediction of victory for i
Senator tiaraing ana uovemui | i
Coolidge, Mr. Hays laid claim to the r
following states: f
California, Colorado, Connecticut, t
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kan- t
sas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michi- \
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, 1
1 New Jersey, New York, North Dako- c
' ta, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, i
J Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, '
; Vermont, Washington, West Virgin- t
ia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. i
'In addition,' said Mr. Hays, 'the 1
Republicans have very much better i
than an even chance to carry Arizona,
Kentucky, Maryland and New s
Mexico, with 27 additional electoral 1
votes. This makes 395 Republican t
electoral votes almost certain out of 1
' - ?.?1 KOI /
u a cvtax \jjl t/ajit j _
[ "Republican victory in Kentucky
is absolutely certain provided the i
weather is such that it is practical- <
ly possible for the great Republican <
majority in the mountains of east- i
, ern Kentucky to get to the polls. ]
This same element enters into the 1
, result in Tennessee, where there is <
fc a splendid chance for the Republi- J
j cans. We also have a splendid op- portunity
to carry North Carolina 1
and Oklahoma. This makes the prob-J i
ability of an additional 34 votes.
1 "The only states certainly Demo- ]
1 cratic are Alabama, Arkansas, Flor- :
- ida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South :
s Carolina, Georgia, Texas and Vir- i
- ginia. i
"The electorate of America which :
BOY SCOUTS TO MEET
ruetday Night at 7:30 in Council
Chamber.?Fifty Boys Hive
Joined and More Expected.
?A Summer Camp.
There will be the fourth meeting of
he Boy Scouts tomorrow night
i/uesaayj jnov. z, at 7:40 r. ivi. m
he City Council Rooms. The meeting
/ill begin promptly at the stated
lour. At this meeting the boys will
tand examination on the Scout Law,
,s one of the necessary requirements
or the Tenderfoot Badge. There were
>0 boys at the last meeting, and it is
loped that there will be 75 or 100 at i
his third one. ]
The interest which the boys evince 1
s of the best, and here it may be 1
tated that there is a splendid spirit
f cooperation on the part of the I
larents who are standing back of 1
he movement. Last meeting there
/era six men there, and they helped
argely in the decision of debated
loints. Two of the assistant Scoutnasters
were there to help Mr. Derbyhire,
and the other two have stated
hat they will be at later meetings.
Phese men have said that they will
lelp the movement by making short
iddres ;es on points decided on at the
neetings previous, and it is hoped
hat others of the parents will show
heir interest by appearing at one or
nore of the meetings.
The regular meetings' of the Scouts
vill be Tuesday evenings at 7:45 P.
unless stated otherwise in the
>apers. The matter of next summer's
amp will be taken up shortly, and
lere it will be necessary for the par;nts
to come forward and with their
neans and interest, make the camp
i success.
THE COTTON MARKET
Cotton futures opened up about
[0 points,today above Saturday's
ilose, but declines carried the markst
back to Saturday's closing figires
of 21.50 for December. New
fork spots were up 50 points to
52.50.
The market in Abbeville stood
ibout Saturday's figures, the best
:otton selling for 23 cents.
VISITORS FROM ANDERSON
Mrs. J. L. Sherrard and Mrs. Bur iss
came down from Anderson Friiay
and spent until Saturday afterloon
with Mrs. Ella Wilson on
Hhestnut street. Mrs. Sherrard will
>e remembered in Abbeville as Miss
rannie Pinckney.
s for 'America first,' is simply
vaiting for the opportunity to voice
t protest against in efficiency, exravagance
and autocracy iA governnent;
tq express its complete confiience
in the constructive abaility of
he Republican party in a manner
;hat will be heard around the
vorld.'
Mr. White, who declared .tonight
le had spent the last three days
:hecking up detailed reports from
ill state chairmen, asserted he saw
no reason to alter my forecast in
vhich I predicted a certain victory
:or the Democratic ticket.' Mr.
White referred to a predction he
nade yesterday.
'But, in perfect fairness,I want to
:ay that this will not be alone a
Democratic victory. It will be vic;ory
of America, a victory over disoyalty
and partisanship, a victory
>ver the councils of selfishness.
"This nation wants to establish
md maintain world peace in con:ert
with those nations which were
>ur allies in the struggle against
mruvrialiam T+ wftTlts tft the
Monroe doctrine to the world. It
svants to secure peace in the eastern
hemisphere as in the western,
ind to spare future generations of
A.mericans from the necessity of
laying down lives abroad to save
mankind frim military domination.
"We have won the argument for
peace. We have won it despite the
fact that an absolutely clean and
fair campaign on our part has been
conducted in the face of a campaign
that bore every other semblance but
fairness and cleanliness.'
BANKS ARE ON
SOUND BASIS
.
TWENTY-FOUR PER CENT GROSS
REVENUE MADE?COMPTROLLER
OF CURRENCY PLEAS2D
WITH NEW HIGH RECORDONLY
FIVE BANKS WENT INTO
HANDS OF RECEIVERS
DURING THE YEAR
Washington, Oct. 31?The 8,157
national banks of the country reported
a gross revenue of $1,109,000,000
or 24 per cent, on their capital,
for he fiscal year ended last June
30, said a statement today by John
Skelton Williams, comptroller of the
currency. This, Mr. Williams said,
was a new high record.
Only five banks went into the
hands of receivers during the year
a record exceeded only by that of the
year before when there were no failures.
v $
Mr. Williams decalred the national
banks had met the "severest" of
war and reconstruction in a way
that proved their "solid strength and
the wisdom and fidelity" of those who
direct them.
"The facts and figures," he added,
"must give the American people .and
the world increased confidence in the
safety and power of the banking and
business interests of this country." '
Earnings of the banks came only
from interest and discount, Mr. Wil'UJ
liams said, although a total of $97,000,000
was obtained from exchange
and collecion charges and *other
miscellaneous sources.
Losses charged off by the banks
were distributed as follows: $31,200,00
on loans and discounts, $61,700,000
on bonds and other securities;
and $21,000,000 on miscellane- 1
ous losses.
The banks paid interest to depositors
aggregating $287,600,000.
Their taxes amounted to $79,400,000.
'The shrinkage in the value of our
principal commodities and faifticdes
of producion during the fiscal year
ended October 31," Mr. Williams said
"is the greatest in commercial history,
not only in amount but in proportion
of the decline to former
values.
"The national banking system of
the United States has not only endured
unshaken the phenomenal
changes but has prospered and
grown geadily and substantially, in
the midst of them. During the past
fiscal year 361 charters were granted
for new national banks with capital
of $31,077,500 and 608 national
banks have increased their capital a
total of $104,618,100. The net increase
of authorized national banking
capital for the year, after subtracting
all reductions, by consolidations, voluntary
liquidations, receiverships and
reductions of capital is $118,810,000.
This is 50 per cent, more than the
greatest increase for any preceding
year since 1865."
LAND SALES.
Judge of Probate, Jones F. Miller,
sold the Clinkscales tract of land,
located near Level Land, and containing
72 1-18 acres today to Samuel
Ellis at $45 per acre.
The Master offered the Pressly
land for sale again today, and it was
bid in by a member of the family
at $15.00 per acre.
THREE PRETTY VISITORS.
Misses Bettie Morrah, Essie DuPre
and Rebecca Morris, were in Abbeville
today in the interest of the
Annnnl 4-V.- TIT >_ rT,L
i&uiiuai vi me vv uuidii s ^onege. xney
called on the Press and Banner force.
Miss Morrah is the pretty and attracive
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.
D. Morrah of Belfevue, Miss DuPre
is a daughter of the late Calhoun
DuPre, of Greenwood and has all the
good looks of her mother. Miss Morris
is the pretty young daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Foser Morris of Willington.
The three are popular students at the
Woman's College.
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