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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
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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
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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 ]
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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 +
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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
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BOBBED HAIR. i a
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(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
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.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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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TVm-rerJnv onH FriHav duririi? the
month of January.
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