The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, November 10, 1920, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
Established 1844.
' THE PRESS AND BANNER
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
The Press and^Banner Company
Published Tri-Weekly
Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Telephone No. 10.
Entered as second _?ass matter at
post office iD .'xDheville, S. C.
Tern* of Subscription:
One Year $2.00
Six months $1.00
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 1920
ONLY A SUGGESTION.
It is not true that the men in Abbeville
who believed and still be'
Nlieve that the election of Harding for
president was more. advisable and
better for the country than the election
of Cox are men whose political
ambitions have ended Nin disappointment.
Most of the men who have expressed
such an opinion in our hearing
are business men who are interested
in the welfare of the country,
who do not desire and would not accept
office. To say otherwise does
them an injustice.
If the republican party in the future
is to house those whose political
ambitions have not been gratified,
we suggest that Col. E. C. Horton,
of the Abbeville Medium, Woodrow
Wilson, of the White House, and most
of the democrats who sought office
in the late election are entitled to accommodations.
A YEAR'S RECORD.
The building of a subscription list,
that is in reality a subscription list,
by a country newspaper ig no mean
job for any man. It is true that in recent
years some newspapers have obtained
a large number of names on
their lists by running contests -and
in other ways, but we do not call
ftiese bona fide x subscription lists,
mainly for the reason that large numnf
npnnlp in such contests, in
order to. help some candidate, pay
the subscription price for a paper for
one or two years when they have
never done so for the paper Itself.
Another reason why we have never
favored the contest route to a subscription
list is that it takes all the
money which comes in to pay for the
contest and the newspaper is to that
extent crippled (and country newspapers
are easily crippled, especially
in hard times) and the newspaper
running a contest is by the amount
paid for the contest management just
ihat much less able to give its readers
a good paper. In other words the
money which should go into the paper
to make jt a real newspaper
goes to the contest managers, and
there is that much less to spend for
the readers of the paper.
When the present owners of The
Press and Banner took charge of the
plant we found ourselves burdened
with a great many subscribers many
years behind in their payments on
subscription. The Press and Banner
with a little experience soon knew
that these were not in fact subscribers
worth while either to it, or to the
people who advertised in our columns.
We began pruning them down, and
by the time the wfcr came on and the
government required that 'all subscriptions
be put on a cash-in-advance
basis, we had no subscriber more
than a year in arrears. We were even
then contemplating the very step
which the government required of all
newspapers?going on a cash-in-advance
basis. We welcomed the change.
v When that requirement came to us,
the Press and Banner had something j
more than 825 subscribers. In going;
on a cash-in-advance basis, we lost
some of our subscribers, and our list i
went below the 700 mark. However, j
?he numbers began to grow slowly j
but gradually and by May 1919, '
had a subscription list of 735.
At that time on account of the ,
ornAiinf rvf wnrlr ontoiloH Art fKo
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tor of the paper, he deemed it necessary
to employ an editor for the paper,
and to turn the editorial management
of the paper over to someone
else. Due to the views of the new
editor which were at variance with
the views of the former and present
editor and to other causes for which
ntJvdy is blamed, the subscription
list of the paper by November 1919
when purged of those names in arrears
at the end of the month had
gone down to 660. The present editor
of the paper believed then that it
was advisable for him to again .. as?
v
' sume the editorial management of the
, paper, which he did. The paper was
' changed from a semi-weekly to a tri1
weekly paper which increased its
' value to the readers, and which en|
a bled us to give better service to the
people who patronized us.
And the people have not been slow
to show their appreciation of a betj
ter paper. The subscription list which
i as stated, stood at 660 twelve months
| ago, since that time ' has shown a
I steady growth and after purging the
1 lists of the names of those in arrears
at the end of the past month, we
find now that we are sending the pa{per
and delivering it to more than
900 persons who are paying for it in
advance or on delivery. Each month
in that time our lists have shown a
larger number of subscribers. Even
the month of October, when money
has been unprecedently scarce, added
new names to our lists and enabled
us to show an increase over
' September.
' The Press and Banner now has the
largest subscription list df the papers
published in Abbeville. Whereas, the
' other paper, when we took over the
! Press and Banner had according to
' the statement of the editor a list of
'around 1100, which was later increased
by a voting contest to sever|
al hundred more, and we then had
less than half the subscribers we now
have, we have gained enough to put
us in the lead, while ^he other paper
has lost enough subscribers to put it
. in the rear.
! These facts we believe to be of inj
terest to the supporters of this paper
: and to the people who pay their money
to us for advertising space. It is
due them to know that the Press and
Banner is read by more people in Abj
beville County than any other general
advertising medium which is pub
lished or circulated in the county,
i and they may judge whether it is to
i % , *
| their interest to continue to patronj
ize a paper Which every month shows
: a growing subscription list and which
' carries their messages to more and
'more people as the months pass.
There is another consideration
I which should be noticed. A paper
'which has a growing subscription list
I is evidently more eagerly and thoroughly
read by the people who take
it than one with a list which either
does not grow, or which is falling off.
J A paper which is read is worth much
mere to advertisers than one which
is not read, we take it. The fact that
The Press and Banner is read by more
and more people in the county each
month indicates, or should indicate
to advertisers, that it is the proper
medium through which to reach the
! people of this county who trade with
the advertisei's.WATCH
YOUR STEP.
j Col. R. W. Smith is now Number
Seven, commencing with a big "S"
1 and ending with a big "N". This
means that he has been appointed one
of the city's "foinest," and he is out
tc iatch speeders.
The truth is that the present force
fir.ds it hard to keep up with the
; speeders. Mr. Johnson is slightly cripI
pled, Mr. Eakin is a little old, and it
' takes Mr. McLane a good while to
I Inr.lf QTAiin/1 en cnoa^arc coir
iv v a ai wuiiuy ow owj ?
' ".nd they have had difficulty in arresting
the speed fiends. It is true
that Mr. Eakin has done good service
for the city in seeing that everybody
has proper lights on their cars, and
that he stops speeders down-town,
when he discovers them, as do the other
members of the police force?that
is Mr. Eakin has stopped all of them
but one, and that was a pretty young
lady at whom he waved his walking j
stick, and who not knowing tne meaning
waved her pretty hand back at
him, telling a companion, "That policeman
is too old a man to be flirting
with me, he ought to be ashamed of
himself." .
Taking cognizance of the fact that j
, too big a job is placed on the small j
| force here to handle^ these speeders j
on the side streets and far out in
town, the City Council has been look-1
ing for a motor-cycle officer forj
sometime who would be willing to try <
to outrun the speeders and arrest ;
them. They did not find one, no mo-1
torcyclist around here being willing!
to ruin his reputation by being outrun
by some of our swiftest young'
men and ladies.
; But a man who could outrun any !
kind of a car, either a Packard, Lymousine,
Tin-pan Nancy, or other!
, "best mule," has been found and-' he j
was found in this way. Col. Smith i
has just opened his barrel of fish last j
Friday when Georgg Godfrey's big
dog gapped one of them and started'
down the road to give it to one of his
lady friends. He had a start of about
a hundred yards on Dote when the
fish merchant discovered him, but o
forgetting the ninety and nine other L
; fine fishes, Dote went, after the . one e
; which the dog had. And the dog a
I didn't get far until Dote ran past f
! him grabbed the fish and handed it c
j fafely back in the Jaarrel. A
A member of the City Council who ^
! witnessed this burst of speed saw
I tVinn tVmf tVifv rlnvs of thp cnpprlpr L
I ? ? ~r
I were over in Abbeville. Reporting it t!
| to the Mayor a meeting of Council IV
j was called, and in less time than it s,
, takes to tell it, Dote was made Serg. e
Smith, No. 7, and that he now is. Dote v
would not take the oath of office the IV
day he was elected because no pre- w
parations had been made for the oc- I
oasion, so he was not inaugurated a
until the following morning, the in- v
auguration ceremonies being short s
but impressive. Number SeveN was e
in waiting in the office of the Mayor, e
and at the special request of the hon- ti
ored one, he was escorted before the ,
j full Council by Alderman Henry, a
I who looks so much like Dote, the . ii
Council acknowledging his presence a
by rising. When Dote had been seated a
jthe members were likewise seated, v,
I Mayor Mars then arose and in a few e
well chosen and wise sounding words j p
announced the unanimous selection ; si
of Col. Smith as official speeder ii
catcher for the city, pinned on his fi
many "chist," the badge of office, o
gave him a bottle of buzzard grease o
to keep him supple, and told him to b
go after them. Dote in acknowledge!
ment of the honor conferred upon J ]V
| him, replied as follows: "I will ketch jn
i evry dam one of them." . E
Watch your step, and keep your' &
eye peeled for Number SeveN. j G
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THE SMITHS *
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The Smiths had bad luck Tuesday, j
Governor Smith of New York was
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defeated for reelection, though he
ran 100,000 ahead of the pyesidential
ticket.
SeSiator John Walter Smith of
a
I Maryland, one of the leaders of the t
party, was defeated for reelection.
I Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, c
I was defeated for reelection; but j
I there are not so many tears shed for c
i that.
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And we believe there was another
. I
; Senator Smith defeated?Marcus t
! Aurelius, of the state of Afizoha,' _
whose home is at Tuscon?which, i
| some say, is the lodest town in Am- J]
i erica. 1 ! ;
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\ Our own Smith?Ellison "DuRant? *
' was elected an overwhelming ma-! j
jority and he was the only Smith in ths
senate that escaped shipwreck.
?Newberry Observer. "
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LOWEST PRICES IN FOUR YEARS I
Chicago, Nov. 10?Lowest prices in 1
four years prevailed today for all op- I
ticns of wheat, corn and oats on the I
Chicago board of trade. The new||
prices represented declines of six to (
seven cents for wheat and two or J
three for corn and oats under yes
terday's prices. Wheat was 33 to 39 f
cents lower today than it was a week P
ago and corn quotations were less
than one-half what they were six ?
months ago. The December option
in wheat closed today at 1.77 to 1.78; Z
December corn, 78 cents and Decern
ber oats, 49 cents.
Coincident with the low prices in;"
wheat came announcement from Min
neapolis millers of declines in fam- J
ily patents to new low points, the i
price dropping below, $10 a barrel for I
tVlO firef timo in IMlOrlw fntlf
v??w wwiiv in iiwwiij ivui jcaio. |||
Lower corn prices were followed by IJ
declines in ^pork?"finished corn." J
heavy receipts, aggregating 106,000 | J
animals in ten markets, were declar-1J
ed to be one of the causes of the'g
decline in pork.
Weakness of the wheat prices was
ascribed by some brokers to reports ?
that Kansas bankers were consider- J
ing the question of curtailing cred- ^
its, which, if done, might force Kan- I
sas wheat on the market, it wasil
said. Later reports quoted the Kan- K
ras bank commissioner as saying I
that, while some banks were over-L|
loaned, there would be no blanket [
order for curtailment of loans, but J
nmt eacn uaim a aimatiuii wuuiu uc ||
considered on its merits. The bank H
commissioner joined J. C. Mohler, sec- 3
retary of the state board of agricul- 3
ture in declaring there was no a
'strike" of Kansas farmers to hold jj
wheat for higher prices.
Legal Blanks for Sale Here.? Lj
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DEATH OF MRS. LATIMER. 1
Mrs. Emma Cozby Latimer, widow
f the late James T. Latimer, of !
owndesvme, died in this city Monday
vening, November 8th, at 10 o'clock
fter eighteen months' intense sufering
from a fatal malady. Death
ame to her at the home of her sister, 1
Irs. J. H. Latimer, where she made .
er home in recent years. j
Before her first marriage, Mrs. '
.atimer was Miss Emma Cozby of 1
his county. She was first married to ?
Ir. Eugene Moore, who died while
he was still a young woman. After
ight years of widowhood, during :
;hich time she lived with her sister, (
Irs. J. H. Latimer, she became the 1
rife of Mr. James T. Latimer, of
,owndesville. After her last marri- 1
ge she made her home at Lowndesille,
and it was a hospitable home
he had, a place where friends gath-1'
red and were entertained and^where :
verybody felt better for having gone >
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EJ iv anu lur Having miuwii iier.
Mrs. Latimer was for many years
member of the Methodist Church '
i Lowndesville. She was an enthusi- j
stic worker for the church, a.'wom
n of a high Christian character," '
rhose good sense and interest in othrs
made for her usefulness to her 1
astor and the congregation of which 1
he was a member. She was a mother
ideed to the boys of Mr. Latimer's
rst marriage, so much so that many
f the people who went to her home '
n different occasions did not know
ut that they were her own.
Since the death of her husband
Irs. Latimer for the most part has
lade her home here with her sister,
tesides this sister, she is survived by
Irs. A. B. C. Dorsey, of Gainesville,
la., and Mrs. V. R. TJhornton, of At-,
inta. Mrs. Thornton and a niece,
liss Leone" McG^lighey, of Atlanta,
rere with her when the end came.
Funeral services were conducted
Dday at 12 o'clock in the Methodist 1
!hurch at Lowndesville by her pasor,
assisted by Rev. C. E. Peele, of
lie Abbeville Methodist Church. A j
irge concourse of sorrowing friends
nd relatives accompanied the family
o Lc wndesville to attend the funeral!
nd to see the body of their friend
onsigned to its last resting place. J
'he interment was in old Smyrna
emetery, near LoWndesville.
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ZERO WEATHER
Stripped of All Clothing, Captain 1
Kilpatrick Faces Terrible Ordeal
in Russia, Reports Say
London, Nov. 10.?Capt. Emmet
Kilpatrick, representative of the
American Red Cross in South Russia, ;
and two nurses, were brutally killed <
during a Bolsheviki cavalry raid on i
erican Red Cross are missing and are i
dispatch to Reuters limited, tonight. 1
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Washington, Nov. 10?0. Atechny, j
founder of the Monnoite Society, and ;
Capt. Emmett Kilpatrick of the Am- 1
erican ed Cross are missing and are <
believed to have been captured by i
the Bolsheviki, according to reports i
received by the State Department (
Tuesday. Atechny, the reports say,
had charge of relief work of the Mennoite
Society in Russia. He arrived :
at Helberstadt Crimea, on Oct. 25 1
from New York. j
The situation of Kilpatrick, the <
State Department announcement
says, is a '"matter of, grave concern" 1
He was last seen near Novo Aleivesk <
on Oct. 30, stripped of his jjndercloth- <
ing in zero weather and being led i
away by Aed cavalry raiders. Kil- <
Patrick's home is jn Alabama. ^
The State Department's inquiry
was instituted as a /esult of a Bolshevik
report emanating from Moscow
on Nov. 6 to the effect that the Reds
had captured the "American mission
headed by General Morrell."
There is no American officer of that
t %
name in Russia, the State Department (
ahnouncement says, and the supposed
capture of Atechny and Kil- .
Patrick is believed to be the basis of
the Moscow report.
SELLS LOT.
John H. Mundy has sold the rear
of his lot on Walnut street to Henry
McClaren. The lot wal purchased
sometime ago from Neuffer and Mc-;
Murray aqd Mr. Mundy makes a good'
profit on the part sold to McLaren.
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AFTER MANY DAYS
The big post in the middle of the i
triangle at the Baptist Church used
for the support of the telephone
wires has been taken down, making,
a vast improvement in the appear- j
ance of the street.
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McLAURIN ALIVE.
56 Not Think He Committed Suicide '
. ?Conviction in Bennettsville
He is Suffering From Mental
Aberration.
Bennettsville, Nov. 9.?The family
and friends of T B. McLaurin are
satisfied that he did not commit suiidce
as was suspected last night but
is suffering under a mental aberration
and will return home soon. C.
3. Adams, cashier of the Mutual Savings
bank of which Mr. McLaurin is.
president, says the affairs of the
bank are all right but he and the
directors will not open the doors of
tne oanK until tne state DanK ex
aminer conies and makes a complete
examination.
Charlotte, N. C., Nov. 9.?Twentyfour
hours' vigilance on the part of
the local police department, including
inquiry at all the hotels in thecity,
failed to reveal any trace of TV B.
McLaurin, Bennettsville, S. C.,
banker, who was reported to have
come to Charlotte after having left
clothing and a note on the river bank
near Rockingtfam, N. C., indicating
suicide.
BALTIMORE WORKERS
DECLINE INCREASE
Twelve Thousand Vote for Scale Of
Pay To Remain AS Fixed.
Baltimore, Nov. 10?Twelve thousand
workmen, members of building
trades in Baltimore have declined to
accept an increase in wages. At &
meeting of representatives ?f the
workers a motion to accept a wage
advance from 90 cents to $1 an hour
was tabled by an overwhelming vote.
One year ago the union rate for carpenters
was fixed at 90 cents with'
the understanding November 1 this
year the increase would be effective.
The agreement was signed by
contractors, builders and representatives
of the trades. Employers made
no attempt to recede f#om the agreement.
BOY SCOUT MEETING.
There will be a meeting of the '
Boy Scouts Thursday night at 7:4J
in the Council Chamber. All members
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are urged to be present.
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