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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 tost office in Aoheville, S. C. Tcnu of Subscription: One Year $2.00 Six months $1.00 Three months .50 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1921 PAPER SUSPENDS The Fountain Inn Tribune , an nounces that it will suspend publica tion on. account of a failure of rev enue. We imagine that the Fountain Inn Tribune' will not be long alone. ^The cost of printing newspapers in creased enormously during the war period. The charges for labor increas t ed something like one hundred per j cent., while print paper increased in j price from about thtee cents per { pound to fifteen cents per pound. While paper is some cheaper and / the / price of labor has been somewhat re duced, there i? still a wide margin ! between the expenses formerly in curred and those now incurred in C printing a newspaper. On the other h^id, the newspapers a fa Ttn'tVimif. rpvpnue. We saw a weekly paper last week with not more than four columns of advertising matter. The subscription price of the paper will not pay for the stock on which it is printed and the ' postage and other incidental charges of print ing and mailing it. The income is not sufficient to pay the labor neces sary to keep the paper going. And that is about the condition of most newspapers just now. The da; ly papers which formerly had issues of twenty-four and mjre pages, atld which were full of advertisements, are now printing about eight pages with no advertisers. , % Just how long the condition will remain, we do not know. But we do know that if it continues ior?g mere will be no newspapers printed except in those cases where the owners of the papers are prepared to shoulder - the expenses of so doing without any hope of financial return. NOT AN ABBEVILLE GAME "Do you play checkers?" asked an i interested young man yesterday of a < quiet, unoffending citizen who is de- 1 voted to dominoes, the most intellec- < tual and fashionable of all games, and < the q. u. c. answered: "Npt now, but 11 once upon a time." "Yet, it is said," - retorted the i. y. m. "that you ha*l < from Abbeville, and I have never ] known an Abbeville man who did not ] think, at least, that he could play * ^ checkers. Why, there is Frank Mc- I Gee, who plays this game;" but vlm+'e +V>q usa nf /?r>nfinnincr t.hp eon- ' T> xiaw o tii^ viwv v* vv??v?..v..?0 w? ? ^ v?rrrt:r>*v No one shall charge Frank McGee with being addicted* to the game of Checkers. He is our friend, and perish the thought that he would p'ay checkers. It m'ght be said, how ever, that he is "ace high," whatever v that is, when it comes to mumble- . peg.?Spartanburg Journal. ( AN INTERESTING FOUR j ' I Monday our streets were lively . with the people who were in the city on business or pleasure. The af- * fairs of the world were in a fdir way to be settled. When we passed the Court House and saw Dr. Cowan, Col. "Pete" Armstrong, Col. "Pat" Henry, of Due West and Mr. T. C. Seals sitting on one of the c iron benches engaged in earnest j conversation. Dr. Cowan looked as | handsome as usual, Col. Armstrong ana mr. seal still ieei that tney could follow Jackson's Foot Cavalry all through Virginia, while Mr/ Henry is authority on much of the old and interesting history of Abbe- ^ ville and Due West. THANK THEIR FRIENDS !( ] Mr. and Mrs. Mack Lawton, of the ' Abbeville Cotton Mill village, tajce this means of thanking their friends : t? ii? i ui uic viuagc iui tnc many ui kindness and helpfulness extended them during the illness of their son who was burned last week, from the effects of which he died Saturday. They desire to express publicly their thanks to the nurses of the Hospital for the care and attention shown the young son in his suffering. JAPAN'S 77,000,000 1 The census taken in Japan on Oc tober 1 was the first census taken throughout the empire. The result as cabled showed that the total pop-< ulation of the Japanese Empire is, 77,005,000, of which Japan proper: alone counts for its inhabitants 55,- j 96,000 souls. j1 ment relied for the numbering of i1 the people on the policemen, who !,( made a house to-house visitation I once or twice a year. Consequently, the results were of doubtful accura cy. The experiment undertaken on October 1 was in many respects an ^ interesting one. Prior to the taking jof the census, agents of the census bureau had been very active in con- x ducting a campaign of education re- I garding the census. Even orators x and entertainers were hired to fami- s liarize the people with the enter- 1 prise. The city of Tokio alone ap- 1 propritted 100,000 yen for the pur pose, employing 5,417 agents to dis- z tribute preliminary test blanks to * the 467,692 independent families c residing in the capital. These test I blanks had to be filled in so that all citizens mignt muKe nu miawiivc m answering the questions on the offi cial sheet. The census agents, going from house to house and among all class es of people met with experience which were both tragic and comic, as many of the Japanese seemed to have had a misapprehension of the purpose of the taking of the census. A story is told of one newly married couple for. whose conjugal happi ness a too close inquiry about the age of the* femine partner had to be carefully avoided. There was a tacit understanding between the' couplet that the wife was two years older than the husband. Therefore, when the census agent called with a teat Uiaiia Mic n ijlv TrM*u^vkvv? ?v him: "In truth I am five years older j than my husband, but if he knew my j true age he might send me away; so s with youf permission, I shall write a s false age on the blank form. When c you come on October 1 to collect ( the formal sheet I shall follow you t out of the house for- a little way ^ and then tell you my true age." s To the agreeable surprise of the p census agents they clid not encount- e er much trouble among the poorer I and illiterate classes. On the other 6 hand, lawyers, true to their profes sion, proved garrulous and quarrel- c some, instead of following th^ir in- ? structions. Trouble was also en- a in ?4an1in<r witti snmn nf the families of the nobility, where I g :o-operation was refused. On the 2ve of the census day even the launts of the vagrants and beggars ?corners of temples, shrines, un ler bridges and other unsheltered jlaces?were ransacked so that the jopulation of the empire might be iccurately counted.?Easfc and West ^ews. \ 'BEHOLD MY WIFE!" ONE OF THE FINEST FILMS OF THE YEAR Hailed by the critics and motion >icture public as one of the finest >roductions of the current season, Jeorge Melford's "Behold My iVife!" is coming to the Opera louse for 2 days Friday and Satur lay. The story was adapted from Sir jilbert Parker's novel of the Cana XT /-v wfiV*T*rr\ r? +- Tvowolo + lrtn xiaii iiuiuiivvcQi) x lie jLioiioiavivn >f a Savage." d The central characters are the ' iristo^ratic son of an English fami y and the simple Indian girl whom j?' le encounters in Canada while he is >n business for the Hudson's Bay Dompany. Receiving word from his 'inafice back in England that she las broken with him because of the family's objection to their ma nage, the youth in a fit of rage, nai)ri?s the Indian girl and send3 ler back to England as his wife to iisgrace his blue-blooded sires. Then fie proceeds to hit the toboggan in this own way. However, dramatic svents work a transformation in lis bride and the ending: is a happy sne. "Behold My Wife!" has been filmed against a background of snow-capped mountain peaks, bleak Canadian trading posts, and luxuri ous English country homes. The ac tion is interpreted by a distinguish ed cast including Mabel Julienne Scott, Elliott Dexter, Milton Sills, and Ann Forrest. Frank Condon adapted the story to the screen. It is a Paramount pictnre. WOULD ABOLISH PfcNSJON BOARD Senator Hart Has Measure to Sim plify Matters?Ways and Meano Committee Considers Bill Favorably. Senator Hart's bill to abolish the state pension board and to devolve ;he duties of the board on the comp iroller general and the county boards >f honor in the several counties is to )e substituted for a house bill of similar import, but not exactly the same provisions, by the ways and neans committee of the house and eported out favorably today, it is )elieved. The measure by the York senator vo-uld greatlyvsimplify the present )lan of paying pensions it is claimed vould incorporate Senator John ;tone's bill to pay pensions to ^er ain faithful negroes who served in he war and who since have conduct id themselves properly and would do iway, with the state board altogeth >r, snaking ample provision for the lomptroller general to handle all the >ension money. A number of changes are made^ in" l^e old law, including the creating ?f the county "boards of honor" vhich shall have authority to place lames on the list or remove theih rom the list. The board would con ;ist of three members, elected at a all meeting of all the veterans in the :ounty and the judge of probate vould act as clerk and distribute the noney as provided by the act nnd the >oards. Members of the county boards vould be paid $2 a day while in sen i?on and actual expenses incurred md in addition ten cents a mile far iach mile traveled in the discharge of heir duty. The judge of probate vould receive a fee of 25 cents for sach enrollment and for each di:? mrsement. * * , \ The comptroller general would ap jortion to the several counties their >ro rata share of the fund appropri ited for pensions and have general iupervision of the act. Only two ilasses of veterans are provided for, ]lass A and Class B, the first class o consist of pensioners who have at ained the age of 80 or who have lost in arm or leg, or who are blind or >aralyzed or whose income does not ixceed $3UU per annum wnne \,jass i would consist of all'other pension irs not in Class A. # All Class A pensioners are to re eive $100 and the remainder of the: und is to be divided proportionally I mong the pensioners of Class B. The] ill provides that if the pensioners in I ilass B receive more than $75, this um shall be divided three-fourths ver the $75.00 for Class B. ill pensioners in Class B when they rrive at 80 years are automatically levated to Class A. Pensioners entering the Confeder te home are limiteA to $50 and pro iron is made for the widows of all eterans. To carry out the act the am of $600,000 would be appropri' ted. The bill provides that the county oards of honor shall, sif they^find istifiable cases, pay pensions to the lithful ^negroes of the Confederate ar in the amount set by the county oards. To assist Mhe comprtoller eneral an additional clerk is allowed t a salary not to exceed $2,400. This measure is said to be favor jly looked upon in both branches f the assembly. Greehville, S. C., Febr 5.?A large airy depot toda^ announced a re uction from 25 cents to 20 cents or nnnrt in the nrice of milk, ef jctive Monday. Another dairy here iade a similar reduction a few j ays ago. SANITARY MILK FOR SALE My Entire Herd has been Tested by the U. i S. Government. and found Free of that Dreadful Disease Called Tuberculosis. You run no Risk when You Buy MILK From W.HJundv "MY GOLDEN GIRL" "My Golden Girl,". Victor Her bert's latest and best musical show, j is announced at the Opera House j Thursday. Surely Victor Herbert's name ! need^ no introduction, fo^ he is ' without doubt, America's foremost composer of -music and has to hia j credit such well-known successes as i "The Velvet Lady," "Princess Pat" j "The Reti Mill," "Mile. Modiste," ' : and many others. Mr. Herbert's ! scores are noted for their delightful melody, and swing, and "My Golden , Girl" easily?surpasses any other that j ; this brilliant composer has turned | j out in recent years. . Frederic Arnold Kummer is re-' ! sponsible for the book and lyrics j I and has worked into the libretto a | i highly interestnig and humorous! I plot, and for those who have read j j any or all, of this brilliant authors: ; books or short stories, appearing j j each week, or month in the maga Izines, "My Golden 'Girl" will *na-, ! turally contain an additional inter J est. A truly wonderful comlbination j | ?this Kummer-Herbert play/ It was announced by the press, as | one of the seasons greatest hits, during its highly successful -run at the Casino Theatre in New York 1 City this past season. "My Golden v Girl" promises a. strictly high class company, /ot ex-.| celent singersn and dancere, a large, and pretty chorus, whose gowns will | cause a furor among the women.; Elaborate scenery and lighting ef-J fects are carried. You surely cannot^ afford to miss this Kummer-Herbert! musical gem. mces .eacts., $i.iu, $1.65 and $2.20. / ' i ? ^? A DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT ( Donalds, Feb. 4.?Mr. John Henry Cannon $ good citizen of our community, while operating a gaso-1 line wood saw at the home of Mr. j Joe Oulla, accidentally got his left hand caught by the saw and as a re-1 suit, lost all his fingets of the left hand, only the thumb being left. The accident occurred #n the 3rd inst. y i Mr. Cannon is resting quietly to day. HALF Two \ Theresa migh - take adbat B1 Look these prices self he IV!EN'S SUITS $75.00 Suits . . . $37.50 $60.00 Suits . . . $30.00 nn Q,,;io $25.00 *\> KJ \J . \J \J kju i I vj y .WW ' $40.00 Suits . . . $20.00 These Prices are MEN'S SHOES \ $17.00 Shoes $8.50 $15.50 Shoes .... $7.75 $12.50 Shoes . . . $6.25 $10.00 Shoes . . . $5.00 You will not be MEN'S HATS $12.50 Hats $6.25 PlU.iHj flats . . . . ^g.w $ 9.00 Hats $4.50 $ 4.00 Hats $2.00 RAMI t REV. CHAS. CAIN IS KILLED BY AUTOMOBILE Norfolk, Va., Feb. 5.?Rev Charles Wiley Cain, sixty-five, wel known in Virginia and North Caro lina Methodist churches, died to night from injuries received wher struck by an automobile in Ports mouth. Legal blanks of all kinds for sal< at The Press and Banner office. r.rr.nrt: /'Oh Gee! Say G See My Gee-Gee Billy A hit that sails merrily < drinks signs and all. A hie "gee-gee." Strange things 1 "My Home Town is Victor Roberts and A beautifully harmonized tO ifct ViciOf Doubk-f; "Uncle Josh i "Uncle Josh and Cal St Two adventures in which First he cheats himself in get him. Victor Double-f, "I'm a Lonesome Victor "For Every Boy V Victor Roberts and These are wholesome ai Victor Roberts at his best, ? iu the quartet harrfiony. v Victor Duulilt-fi "When You're Gc Peerless "There's a Vacant Chai Charles Real sentiment is the j vigorous numbers. victor i Come in and New Victor THE "McMOR PRICE :CONTINUED: Veeks i tu good reason u itage of our hali ECAUSE..... Our Goods are N The Quality Best The Savings are ( over?then come in >w far your money v BOYS' SUITS $22.50 Suifs . . . $11.25 $20.00 Suits . . . $10.00 ,$15.00 Suits . . . $ 7.50 $10.00 Suits . . . $ 5.00 For Spot Cash? MEN'S WOOL SHIRTS $6.00 Shirts $3.00 $5.00 Shirts ... 1 $2.50 $4.50 Shifts .... $2.25 $3.50 Shirts . . . . $1.75 -Li- 4.?i?i;?4^ auie iu uupu^aic MEN'S UNDERWEAR / $4.50 Union Suits $2.25 $3.50 Union Suits $1.75 $3.00 Union Suits $1.50 .$2.50 Union Suits $1.25 iY & GIL WW WV\\\\ \ vVW ; V MULES AND HORSES V v -L? v . V I wish -.to inform the public V.' I V that I am now located at the V - V Smith Stable, just back of A. V V B. Morse & Co.'s store, where V f l V I have several head of fine V ' V Horses and Mules: also a few V. t V good Cows. Call on me when V V you want to buy, trade or sell. V 5 V R. T. SIMPSON! 2, 7-tf V , 4 tKUM tlJl ee! You Ought to from the Fiji Isle" Murray >ver the right-field fence, soft :k falls in love with a ^circus happen. ' v* a One-Horse Town" Harmonizers Quartet ^ 1 march song with a firfe s\<ring iccd Record 18712 in a Cafeteria" - n the Honey Bees" ewart t Uncle Josh becomes the goat, a restaurant. Then the bees ar^il RnfftH 1^711 i Little Raindrop" Roberts ifho's on the Level" j Harmonizers "Quartet nd good-humored songs, with ind with plenty of fine effects / scrd Rccord 1S709 >ne I Won't Forget" ( Quartet - r at Home, Sweet Home" Harrison jceynote of these strong and 3oubIc-faccd Record 18705 . ' .. let us play you these and other Records tor February : echo ..i?/ RAY'S MUSIC STORE" SALE )hy you should. ' Price sale ' . / ew jreat and see for vour .ill go: MEN'S ODD PANTS $4.00 Pants $2.00 ' $3.00"Pants $1.50. -152.50 Pants $1.25 .$2.00 Pants $1.00 Nothing Charged BOYS' ODD PANTS #4.00 Pants #3.00 Pants $2.00 $1.50 $2.50 Pants $1.25 $2.00 Pants $1.00 these prices soon "BIG 3" & MECHANIC OVERALLS. Per Suit .... . . . -$3.75 Per Garment .... $1.90 LI AM