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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. 1'he Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-uass matter ax post office in Aoheville, S. C. I I Ten a* of Subscription: i One Year $2.00 Six months $1.00 ( Three months .50 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29, 1920 SOJOURNING IN SPARTANBURG. Major and Mrs. J. C. Hemphill, of Abbeville, wfto are sojourning iui ?| season in Spartanburg, spent Sunday and Monday in Greenwood with Mr. and Mrs, James C. Hemphill. People staying for awhile in Spartanburg like to get to a big town like Green wood occasionally and the Major en-| joyed seeing the sights. Being 'born and bred" in Abbeville the Major wanted to talk mostly of j Abbeville people. He asked all about j the town of a Press and Banner re- j , porter for whom he sent in order to; get up-to-date information. He par-j ticularly wanted to know whether we were still serving "a salad course" i at the parties and if all such "cour-; I ses" were 'delicious." He wanted too t to know whether Pat Roche had ever| learned to play set-back, and howj much forty cents cotton Uncle Jim i Stark has saved up. He inquired whe- j +Vior- onv nVh man around Abbeville! had endowed the hospital and wheth er Sam Wakefield had begun to buy anything yet. He also wanted to know whether any of the young girls around town were beginning to show their ears and whether or not the town looked ^ better with the street paving. The Major inquired also after the aristocrats on Greenville street stat-' l ing that he lived on a street in Spar-! tanburg where there was something always going on, the recent happen-' ing being two first class homicides and a woman giving birth to a baby ?something that is getting to be a lost art on aristocratic street he said. The Major was the Christmas' guest of Col. Foster McKissick, of Greenville, where he says he saw a quart of actual genuine whiskey stored at a constitutional pediod' and a forty pound turkey. I i "STRONG"LANGUAGE Sam Wakefield is one of the fore- j most citizens of Abbeville County and ( hails from "the Nation" as it was called, where the Honorable Profes-1 sor John G. Clinkscales of Wofford j College got his start in life, and like j1 all the people from that region uses strong language on occasion. The other day he was down at the Court 1 House looking around and dropped in 1 - j- *1-- r tu. t>??? j o 1 <xi wie uniLC ui xnc iicdd auu jjaiiiici to express his opinion of certain out givings of that organ of sanity. He 1 ''allowed" that the P. and B. "had the biggest Tool editorial some time 1 ago he had ever read, except he didn't say 'biggest.' " "We asked ' him," says The P. and B. "to what ' editorial he referred (which was a plea in confession and avoidance, it 1 might be called, had he possessed the | mental acumen to discover it) when ' he replied: 'Why, hell, that editorial telling people to buy." Professor Clinkscales will recognize "the lan guage of the tribe" at once and that it has ost nothing of its pristine force of expression.?Spartanburg Journal. I1 AN OLD PROFESSION I vl Barbers, speaking generally, may J not know it and the most of them j would not care if they did know it, were regarded five or six hundred years ago as belonging to a profes sion "conjoined," as one authority has it, "with the art of surgery."' In the reign of that godly man,1 Henry VIII, of blessed memory, "they were united with the company of surgeons, it being enacted thatj the barbers should confine them-! selves to the minor operations ofj blood letting and drawing teeth,; while the surgeons were prohibited! from "barbery or shaving." It is added: "The barber's shop was a favorite resort of idle per sons; and, in addition to its attrac tion as a focus of news.a lute, viol, or some such musical instrument, was always kept for the entertain ment of waiting customers." It can be testified that the barbers in such towns as Greenville are still con- c spicuously gifted in "minor opera- 1 tions of blood-letting," but, general- < ly, they have been driven out of the ] business, of drawing teeth. The t point that should be emphasized is i that as they were once entitled to '< rank professionally with the sur- i geons they should hold themselves 1 entitled to as much consideration 1 now as other professional men? i they certainly look and dress as well 1 as any of thev professional class. s Ae -fny +V10 Kaphor sVinn hpinp1 A 1 resort of idle persons, it is keeping s up its ancient distinction. We have < all seen persons of this description 1 enjoying the hospitality of these institutions, and it is not to be re- < gretted, generally speaking, as the 1 intelligent hearer can learn much t from the conversation of the sur- 1 geon operating on him and from the < topics of conversation in which the 1 plain people sitting around are in- a terested. Fortunately, as they would t interfere with the flow of thought, t the lute and viol have been scrapped i in most barber shops; but the bar- i bers and "idle persons" are left. As [ 1 a rule, barbers of the better sort 1 are philosophers. It does not matter < what the subject, they can discuss it J If anything has happened in the < community they have heard about it 1 and know the facts. They can talk t with the utmost assurance on points ] - * ^ 1 1 UV ?n?ol nr,fV,?ci_ I 01 Llieuiugy, aIIU men cijuai I.u>uuui ? asm about the touchdowns in foot ball or the bogies in golf. They do ^ not agree among themselves on t questions of finance and political! < economy. J} Yesterday there was quite an ani-jc mated discussion between two of t these professionals on the subject of I ] the present financial depression, its [ g causes, and it course. One of the 1 j j debating barbers, an optimist of the; c "get~rich-quick?Walingford" type in s sisted that there was nothing in it,1 ] that it would all pass more quickly \ than it came and that we should all + i1 have more money than ever. The t other barber, who was not a pessi-1} mist but just a plain, commonsense t individual, was not impressed with' c the hopeful spieling of the governor 2 of the next chair, closed the argu-' ^ ment: "Ah, shut up; you don't know } what you're talking about. You, x have seen more money than you will ever see again as long as you j live. Money is wo?h something } now. That's the reason it is worth i having and worth saving."?Spar- ? tanburg Journal. I t , it BOBBED HAIR. i a I (By Jack Bradley.) i e What will they do next? Girls have 11 pulled out their eye-brows, cut off jt their dresses, changed their stockings f into half hose, and now as there is ^ k nothing else to excommunicate, they j s cut off their hair. When the girl from; b Chicago came to see Mr. Austin S Roche this summer she brought this j n awful style along with her. Now half j a the fairer sex of Abbeville have cut s aff their only chance to acquire beauty. As I am a male I do not see ^ H-.o!*" Knt T siinnnap thpv think ! ^ if they should vote like a man, they must look like a man also. Christmas eve hight Santa Claus j-ave a most peculiar gift to Miss A.da Faulkner and Miss Mary Louise Dargan who is visiting friends in the :itv. Elizabeth Gambrell, who is the barber of Randolf-Macon, acted as Santa Claus. While Mrs. Faulkner was out visiting across the street Elizabeth bobbed the hair of Ada and Mary Louise. And as there was plenty of room for improvement, their bobbed hair has helped out very much. Elizabeth Gambrell had cut eleven heads of hair already and she made a very neat job of it. When she finished, she remarked that she would probably- but-tKirteen more ' before leaving Abbeville, but that she would never "ruin" her own. Christmas morning Emmie Haig ler bpbbed her hair with the excla mation, "they can't get ahead of me." But when Ada saw her the next morning she told her that she was twelve hours behind time. Santa had visited Vienna street before reaching North Main. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING The stockholders of Abbeville Ice, Laudnry & Fuel rompany will hold their annual meeting in the office of Wm. P. Greece, at Abbeville, S. C., Friday, December 31, 1920, at four o'clock. Wm. P. Greene, President. A SETBACK DINNER Col. Frank W. Wilson, who lives >n Greenville Street, in the town of iVatts, Abbeville County, South Carolina, and who is postmaster, de )ot agent, churchman, school trus ;ee, good neighbor and kind friend n his community, but no preacher, ind who along with his talented vife, three pretty daughters and as nany manly sons, making up the population of Watts, came to town i few days before Christmas and lad a talk with his brother Bill. He saw that Bill was hungry and that ie needed a Christmas dinner and a setback game of the olden times, md that he was unable to have one limself. He told Bill frankly what he had I'scovered and Bill plead guilty on | ;he spot, telling brother Frank that ;here were ten other co-conspira ;ors in Abbeville, and that one was is guilty as another. Whereupon, arother Frank decided that he vould carry the boys away from ;he price of cotton and get an ex ;ension from creditors for one even ng at least. Accordingly yesterday ifternoon at 6 o'clock, with Col. ;>at Roche as "fust lieutenant" Col. Bill led Uncle Jim Stark, Col. Bill Calvert, Capt. Jack Perrin, Dr. Power, Messrs. L. C. Haskell, Gor lon and Will White, Cliff King and iiVm. P. Greene out for an rfttack on ;he good things which had been pre >ared for the evening by the pretty laughters of the Watts household. Arriving about 7 o'clock the 'uests were met by Mr. Wilson and / .aken into the cozy parlor where an >Id time wood lire maae 01 oaic ana rickory logs extended another wel :ome to them. In a little while, after i few jokes had been told, and Pat ?oche had lighted a cigar, the quests were invited into the dining oom, where one of the most elegant linners we have ever attended was ipread before the assembly. Col. ioche said that he would have a :ew remarks to make later, but he hought it the part of wisdom to do he work before him. So he busied j limself with the white meat of the urkey, the fine pork ham, the quail >n toast, the elegant chicken salad j ind other accessories until he could j fono longer. Then taking the floor; le said he had a few remarks to nake. "Frank Wilson is a fine setback irtist," he said. "And he did not in lerit his talents along that line, and t don't run in the family," he said, 'because there "air" no poorer set- j >ack player anywhere than his rother Bill. I found out some time' igo when I played with him that "rank was a Greenville street play-j ;r," and as soon as my eyes had be-, teld this feast, my ears had heard he table groan under it, and I had >ut my feet under this hospitable' oard, I knew it "agane." Without ... ? __ i aying anytning iurxner, as a mem ier of the faculty of the Greenville' Itreet Setback College I now nomi iate Col. Frank "Watts" Wilson to , position on the faculty of that in tituion." Uncle Jim arose and said that he ad heard the motion, 'but he was he president of the Greenville Itreet College, and he appreciated ,11 that Professor Roche had said, ut that he" proposed to do the fhole thing himself. He, therefore lade the motion himself, then sec nded it, put the motion and would iot allow anybody to vote but him elf, and declared Col. Wilson un nimously elected a professor and aid that as soon as his time was out ,e would see that'Professor Wilson ras president of| the institution as lobobdy else had proved this Christ nas any qualificaions whatever for he office and he would never de lare anybody except his friend ''rank Wilson president of the insti ution. ' The games which followed, fol: owng the line of those played by he ladies bridge club were 'spirited." Of course the new pro 'essor and Professor Roche had no rouble in cleaning up brother Bill md Cliff King which they did in a hort order. Will Calvert was badly >eaten by his partner, Uncle Jim; vhile Mr. Haskell had a big load cading Col. White to victory. When the time for departing had :ome around and everybody was ibout ready to go, Col. Wilson in iisted that there were a few "frills" vhich had not been eaten yet and nsisted that everybody sit down igain. Every body said that they lad eaten so much that they :ouldn't eat anything else, and that ;hey couldn't even drink anything, iut when the pretty young ladies made their appearance with an old time Christmas egg-nog,?well, you have never seen Capt. Perrin and the rest sit down as quickly in your life. The journey home was made in record time, and everybody went home happy, Col. Roche remarking that Frank had surely shown his brother Bill how to tre^t his friends. CUBA WILL EMERGE FROM DIFFICULTIES Minister to United States Thinks Country Will Be On Sounder Bam. Washington, Dec. 28.?The belief that Cuba, with the friendly assist ance of the United States, will! emerge from her present economic difficulties on a sounder basis was expressed in a statement issued to night by Dr. Carlos Manuel de Ces pedes, Cuban minister to the United I States. The minister characterized reports of sentiment in Cuba favor ing intervention by the United Stat es as "absurd and nonsensical" and as not meriting consideration. "The present economic situation though serious is by no means des perate," the minister said. "The Cuban congress is now about to convene in order to provide neces sary legislation to' meet the final dif ficulties. The political difficulties will be patriotically solvud in Cuba , and by Cubans themseves, I earnest ly hope and believe. "Claims brought by both political parties are now being passed upon by the judiciary and whatever the j courts of Cuba decide will surely be patriotically accepted by all con cerned." PARTICIPANTS FIRE WILDLY AT EACH OTHER Anderson, Dec. 27.?News conies' to this city of a duel fought Satur day at Barnes Station between Ben Pearman, well known merchant, and Grover Mitchell, a farmer of that ? section. It is said that each one fired ; 12 shots while standing 15 feet' apart, but neither hit the other. 100 LAID OFF St. Augustine, Fla., Dec. 28.?One | hundred employees of the mechani-j cal department of the Florida East' Coast railway will be laid off Janu ary 1, according to an announcement made public today. Any Hon This wonderful litt world's greatest sin dance music, famoi casions. The Victrola VI ca the canoe?anywhe of every home. If you want to fill 3 once. We will sen be arranged. IT A FLORIDA BABY. The Press and Banner has received an announcement of the arrival of Samuel David Smith, Jr., at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Smith, Tampa, Florida. The youny man is not as large as Jack Dempsey, but he weighs 12 pounds and is growing. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Andrews an nounce the birth of a son, who ar rived Friday, December 25th, 1920. The young man has been named Frank Andrews, Jr. r BIRTHDAY PARTY.. Mrs. Walton Stevens compliment ed the head of the house with a birthday party Tuesday evening to which a number of friends were in vited. The evening was one of pleas 11Y?A IA lV?Ae?A m*ocAn + UIC \t\J bllUOC yi.CO&lll/i CHRISTMAS TREE Mrs. John T.'and Mrs. J. L. Evans gave a Christmas tree Saturday af ternoon to their little nieces and nephews and about 20 little friends on Church and Main Streets. The tree was beautifully decorated and each little child was given a toy and three bags of red, white and blue tissue paper containing candies, nuts and fruit. They played games and each little child went home feeling that Mesdames Evans were charming Santa Claus. 11,000,936 PENNIES COLLECTED IN 1920 - BY THE METHODISTS Chicago, 111., Dec. 28?Eleven mil lion, nine hundred and thirty-six thousand and four hundred pennies ? i * n _ xl. 11 were collected mis year in me shiuu paper mite boxes, three inches square of the Woman's Home Missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal church, according to a statement by Mrs. H. S. Earle, Detroit, Mich., sec retary of the mite box department. The pennies amounted to $119, 364. The gross total of all the re ceipts of the society were $2,591,504 and of this amount $119,364 were the pennies?an increase of 300,298 pennies this year. Begin the New Year right by sub scribing for The Press and Banner. ? ... ... i. ? \ ictrola ic Can Afford a le instrument gives you the delight gers and players. It brings you th< lis bands and orchestras?music foi n be taken out on the porch or lawi ;re you want music. Its low price four summer with delight, fill out tl id you the Victrola on trial. Ers; IE McMURRAY DRUG JOSEF HOFMANN'S First Appearance Since European Triumphs in Augusta, January The 6th. Reports of Josef Hofmann's strik ing concert successes in England continue to reach us. The great pian ist has been abroad since October, his first visit to England in sixteen years, by the way. The Daily News of London remarked after his first reci tal, that he has "what looked like the most'knowledgeable audience drawn to a piano concert for a long time." According to the reviewer, the audi ence "began by being cool, but at the end of the program they were shouting like any football crowd and made him play six or seven encores."' The Daily Mail (London) of Octo ber 28th remarks: "Last night Mr. Hofmann's playing brought about one of those "scenes" that definitely set seal of London approval. He has the ear of our public for^his life's remainder. Ninety per cent of the audience probably were pianists of sorts. They gave the judgment of peo ple who know. He has the infallibili ty of a musical Frankenstein; he shows us sheer perfection of finger ability. His cantabile is exquisite, his rhythm and life?save that it can not err." Mr. Holmann, at the completion of a score of recitals on the other side, will return for another American tour which opens in January. His engage ments include many appearances on the Pacific coast during February. His aDDearance in Aueusta under the auspices of the Woman's Club Thurs day evening, January 6th, at 8:30 o'clock, is made possible by the cur tailment of his vacation period i^ior to his regular concert season. Careful attention will be given out of town orders for seat reserva tions. VISITORS FROM NEW YORK Mr. and Mrs. John L. Hill, Jr., of New York, arrived in the city Mon day for a visit to Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hill and other relatives. GIN NOTICE! Our gins will be operated each TVm-rerJnv onH FriHav duririi? the month of January. Southern Cotton Oil Co. G. E. Calvert. ltc Victrola Yi :ful companionship of the i latest popular songs and r all moods, places or oc n, to camp, on outings; in puts it within the reach le coupon and mail it at / terms of payment may