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v. % Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-iiass matter at post office in Aoheville. S. C. Tanu of Subscription: MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1921 JUDGE D. E. HYDRICK. TKo atoto eiiffprs a creat loss in the One Year Six months . Three months $2.00 $1.00 .50 death of Judge D. E. Hydrick. It will not be easy to fill the place on the Supreme Court bench made va .cant by his death. Judge Hydrick was eminently fit ted to adorn the bene}*. In his young manhood he laid the foundation for a useful career by obtaining the best i of educational advantages. These he I improved with all his might. He j taught school for awhile and then be- ] came a practicing attorney. His career at the bar was marked ( by industry and research. He was J ' /never unprepared. He was determin ed to succeed. He took to the circuit bench the same determination to be of service and along with it the same industry. After a short term on the bench he was promoted to the place on the Supreme Court bench made vacent by the resignatioh of Judge ' Jones. ' And the traditions of the South I Carolina courts have not suffered by his elevation. He had no sooner be gun his work there than he was| rec ognized as one of the ablest of the lawyers who have been members of highest court. He ranks with the best of them. His opinions show in ; dustry, care, thought, and most of all a thorough understanding of the J principles of law which he sought to[ . ' apply. No more enduring monument ' will be erected to him than the one! he has erected for himself in the i South Carolina Reports. His untimely death brings sorrow o those who knew him best. With ; . many years of usefulness apparently before him, the summons came, and h? is with us no more. But it is well to know that as a public servant he earned the "well done." KEEP YOUR EYES ON TflE BAPTISTS I On Sunday, the semi-centennial of the Baptist Church at Abbeville was ^celebrated with most interesting and appropriate services. The Rev. Rob ert Newton Pratt, D. D., the first pas tor of thi church, gave an^intensely interesting account of its early his tory, and speakers representing the other churches in Abbeville brought affectionate greetings from their re . spective communities to their Baptist / brethren, congratulating them upon the completion of the first half of a cen&ry and wishhig them greater prosperity in the years to come. Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, President of Furman University, made a particu larly instructive address on "Fifty Years of Baptist History," filled with imposing figures of what that great J - ?r->i?i ueiiuitiiiittiiuu ux v,ill lonana uaa av complished in South Carolina. Fifty years ago, there were 25,000 white Baptists in this State;; now thc<*e are 180,000. Fifty years ago, there were 35,000 negro Baptists in South Caro lina; now there are about 250,000. # Fifty years ago, the contributions of the white Baptists of South Carolina to-all the missions and benevolences] of ,the church amounted to $1,700, last year they gave for the same ob ^ jects $1,750,000.^ Good for the Baptists! They pay as they pray. They give as they get. They have what might be called "a living faith." And they are just be ginning. Some of the rest of us are going to be crowded off the front seats if we don't look out.?Spartan burg Journal. IN "OLD ABBEVILLE." From the Abbeville Press and Ban * ner: "Everybody said that they had eaten so much that they couldn't eat anything else, and that they couldn't even drink anything, but when the pretty young laides made their ap pearance with an oldtime Christmas eggncg?well, you have never seen the Captain and tl? rest sit down so quickly in your life." The party broke up in time for the issue of December 29, to "come out." ?The State. * A SENSIBLE REMARK. Col. Brooks Cheatham, who is mak ing money in Charlotte, N. C., in the theatre business, sends some < of his money to the Press and Banner this week and remarks "You are mighty right, I-couldn't very well get along without the Press and Banner. Am enclosing check for renewal." THE PRESBYTERIANS The congregational meeting of the Presbyterians held Sunday morning was a harmonious affair ana tne nev. Mr. Richards, of Davidson, N. C., was tendered a call to come to Ab beville as the pastor of the church here. Mr. Richards is a man of fami ily and will be an addition to our town. It is hoped he will consider the call favorably./ Messrs Joel j5. Morse and J. C. Thomson leave Thursday for David son t? extend the call to Mr. Richards Rev. Mr. Richards is a brother of Hon. John G. Richards, one time candidate for Governor and weil known to our people. PUPILS WRITE INVITATIONS All of the pupils of the City Schools spent ten minutes today writing notes of invitation to their mothers to attend -the January meet ing of tfie Parent-Teacher Association to be held in the graded school bujjd ing Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The entertainment feature of this meeting will be furnished by the high school and will be devoted prin cipally to Lee's birthday the finale being a rendition of The Star Span gled Banner in Latin by a section of the first year high school. Plans will be outlined for the patronage of two public entertainments to be given by the graded and high schools Feb. , 25th and March 25th respectively in the Opera House. The membership committee is ex Dected to make a fine report at this meeting. MILK PROFITEERS?/ Something is in the air about Wardlaw and North Main streets in the nature of a union-forming cli mate of cowless housewives. It has been noticeable for several days that whenever a lady who posses a cow meets up with another lady of similar possession the first question is "are . you going to cut on the price of your . milk?" . We don't imagine much cut is to ; be secured ever if the cowless worn- \ en do form a union until Aunt Pol lowers her salary scale or the folk 1 quit serving Charlotte and GypSy. One of the dairy maids? of North : Main says she will let her family eat j whiDDed cream before she sells it for 1 less than a dollar a quart. Her family 1 has joined the union. 1 COL. ROCHE MOST TESTIFY "There is plenty di home brew per simmon^eer being made around the town by the boys," says the Abbe ville Press and Banner. "Persimmon beer!" And that's what you call it? And it is 'made around town by the boys," is it? Ho, ho, huh, huh, ha ha. We have no reason to doubt that "there is plenty" of it, such as it is; but we should like to have a state ment from the Hon. Pat Roche as to its alcoholic content.?Spartanburg Journal. i , WILL SETTLE IN ABBEVILLE Dr. H. T. Cathcart, of Detroit, Mich., has been in the city for sever al days looking around with a view to locating here. Dr. Cathcart is a veterinary surgeon and is a man of wide experience in his line of work. He has a wife and two children who will move to Abbeville with him if he can find suitable quarters. There is a good field in Abbeville for Dr. Cathcart and Abbeville will welcome him as a citizen. GONE TO FLORIDA I . Misses Ella and Lena Smith left: Saturday for Tampa, Fla., where they will be the guest of Mr. and? Mrs. Sam Smith. Miss Ella will! stay a month while Miss Lena has accepted work and will make her, | home in Tampa. MR. L. D. WALKER DEAD Mr. L. D. Walker, formerly of Greenwood, but for the past year of Medford, Oregon, died at his distant home Friday, and was buried there yesterday according to advices to friends here. For fifteen years Mr. Walker was watchman at Grendel Mill No. 1, and had a number of" friends. About a year ago he suffer ed a fall from which he never recov ered. He is survived by stwo daugh ters, both medical missionaries in | Japan and his aged mother of Med ford, Oregon.?Index- Journal. Mr. Walker is the brother of Mrs. J. S. Norwood and is well knqwn- to many of the people in Abbeville. He went out to Oregon about six weeks ago to be with his mother and sister and not a year ago as stated by the Index-Journal. Mr. Waiker's daughters have visit ed in Abbeville and friends here syn^ pathize with the family in his death. JACK ROPER GETS MARRIED , An event of the especial interest to college circles of Columbia was the wedding at noon yesterday of Miss Wilhehnina Young to John C. Roper, Jr., of Chester. The cere mony was performed at the resi: dence of the Rev. J. R. T. Major, presiding elder for the Columbia district, the Rev. Mr. Major^ per forming the ceremony. Mrs. Roper is the' attractive daughter of Mr. ? and Mrs. J. C., Young of Lake City and has been a student at Columbia college, taking a prominent part in the various col lege activities. She was the "May queen" of the college at its 1919 festival and during her stay in Co lumbia has made herself one of tha most popular members of the younger set of the city. Mr. Roper is a former resident of Columbia, and also a former stu dent of the University of South Carolina. He is now a traveling rep resentative of the Chester Whole sale Grocery Company, working out bf Chester. The marriage, which came as a surprise to the friends of the young couple, was performed in the pres ence of only a few friends of the bride and bridegroom, Mr. and Mrs. Roper leaving shortly afterwards for the bridegroom's home in Ches te.?Columbia State of January 8. COLD WAVE COMING TOWARD ATLANTIC Drop in Temperature Sweeping East ward Due Here Monday Washington, Jan. 16.?The crop of reports about blossoming dandelions and budding trees, always incident to a mild winter, is endangered by frost the weather bureau tonight forecast in a cold wave for the eastern por tion of the country. Colder weather alrekdy has made its appearance in the sta^s lying immediately east of the Mississippi river, the weather bureau said, and j the .cold area is expected to reach the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida by tomorrow night. Temperatures throughout the east ern half of the country, the bureau's forecast said, probably will be the lowest of the winter. The cold wave, however, will nor, i last longer than two or three days, the bureau said. h? News of Judgeship Election The Hon. J. Howard Moore was at home for Sunday, the Senate having adjourned until Monday night. He j bring the news to the friends of Hon! Thomas P. Cothras, that he is prae- J tically sure of the election to fill Judge Hydrick's place. Mr. Moore thinks there isn't a man in the state who can beat Mr. Cothran. Mr. Cothran is an Abbeville man and friends here are interested in j this news. PREACHING FOR THE SECEDERS I Rev. C. E. Peele, of the Methodist church, wnosc cliurcn was ciosea on account of repair work going on, preached for the Seceders Sunday morning. Mr. Peele preached a good sermon which was enjoyed -by the congregation. The church was closed at night, the Seceders worshipping with the Bap tist. * Mens extra trousers at 50 percent off. Why wait??The Rosenberg Mercantile Company. REDUCTION OF ARMY FAVORED BY SENATE Majority Vote to Stop Recruiting and For Lower Minimum.?The Committee Opposes Dras tic Action. Washington, Jan. 15.?Over the protest of the majority of its mili tary affairs committee, the senate to day* passed a resolution directing the secretary of war to cease army re-, cruiting until the size of the regular army is cut down to 150,0^0 men. Senator Phelan, Democrat, of Cali fornia, after the adjournment of the senate, notified Vice President Mar shall that he would ask the senate totnorrow for reconsideration of the vftte on the ground that the senate IlttU UUlt L/CCll J.UUJT 1I1XV1U1CU WAAVW&Ai ing the objections of General Per shing and Secretary Baker to the re ductions. Should Senator Phelan fail in his endeavor to bring about reconsidera tion, the resolution will go to the house. Chairman Wadsworth of the nfili tary affairs committee did not ask for a roll call on the resolution be cause the senate, a few minutes be fore by a decisie vote of 34 to 28, adopted a motion of Senator Len root, Republican, of Wisconsin, fix ing the army's maximum limit ^t, 150,000, thereby rejecting the com mittee's proposal to make the figure 175,000. This vote was taken, al though General Pershing and Secre tary Baker at an executive session with the military affairs committee ust before the convening of the sen ate objected to any serious cut in the size of the army. General Per shing suggested 200,000 as the mini mum limit. senator x>ew, nepuoncan, 01 In diana, a member of the military af fairs committee who introduced the original reduction resolution, de clared that he did not cftnsider the 150,000 limit "either expedient or safe," while Chairman Wadsworth expressed opposition 'to what is a ery drastic reduction of our mili tary establishment." Senator I}ial, Democrat, of South Carolina asked if the number of offi cers was affected, and Chairman Wadsworth responded that the 'only way to discharge officers is by death OUR I \Y/Ebeg to * mers tha we will be loca cent'ly vacated ?on the East I the Planters Ba Pho will T Littl Phone 398 HONOR ROLL OF THE WARRENTON SCHOOL The following is the honor roll for the month ending January 14th: John Allen Wilson. Frank McNeill. Aiken McNeill. Walter Thomas. Harrison Bosler. Virginia Bosler. Herbert Wilson. Reba Norris. ( ?^ Alberta Norris. Dora Palmer. TCpnripsflw Thomas. # Miss Herbert, Mrs Gilliam, Teachers. Two pair of Boys Pants for the1 price of one.?The Rosenberg Mer cantile Company. or courtmartial for dishonorable con duct or bad debts." Seeral amendments regulating the tpplication of the reduction were adopted, the most , impprtant of which would require the war depart ment to maintain all services on an Lequal basis, equivalent to 53 1-2 per cent, of the total strength in each branch Contemplated by existing army reorganization statutes. Another would authorize the dis charge of any enlisted man upon his application, if approved by the secre t_nrv nf wat The committee estimated the pri% ent size of the army about 213,000. Hold Yon FOR :: HIGH / Conservative on Cotton Co / H * n 117 I Tl 1Y1. D. W/\I, Cotton Factor Greenville, JEW LOC ? announce to our frie it on and after Tuesd ited at our new place by J. M. Andersons Side of Public Squar< ink < 1 A ne us your orders, whici appreciate and fill pron e & Thomj i llllll II I lllillM || Miwwfiwgfr WQMAN Woman, Maurice Touroeur's ela borate motion picture which comes ' to the Opera House next Friday is truly a masterpiece. The management of the Opera House before contracting for this picture had it shipped from the Ex change in Atlanta for a private screening and after seeing it im- ' mediately arranged for it to be shown to Abbeville audiences on the date mentioned above. . "Woman" is more than a moving pictucre?it is a history of woman dating back to Eve in the Garden of [ Eden, produced in such a beautiful ! and interesting manner ?hat there is | no doubt but that you will agree I that too much cannot be said for this picture. | WHAT DIMES WILL DO Capt. Brown Syfan, who has one cf the longest service records on the Southern, having been boss of the branch road for many years, collect ed cash fares last year three thou sand and sixty two dollars and eigh ty four cents. This was collected mostly in dimes the largest fare be ing twenty-four cents. There are three stops in the twelve miles of road. Good heavy fleeced underwear, was $1,50 now 50 cents.?The Rosenberg Mercantile Company. n r totton ER :: PRICES Loans Made nsigned to us. SON & CO. s and Brokers S. Carolina I TVA1T AllUn nds and custo ay, Jan. 18th, the store're mt Clothing Store J1CXI UUUI IU 1 h We iptly pson Abbeville, S. C. i