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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- i/iass matter ai tost office in Aoheville, S. C. Tenm of Subscription; One Year $2.00 Six months $1.00 Three months .50 MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1921 FEELING FOOLISH There are a good many things which make us feel that we are fool ( r'sh these days. We rode down with a good citizen the other morning who I was finding fault with h'mself for I having built a house la?t year. He ,! thinks he could build it now for one ! half what it cost him last year, and ) this causes him to have a poor op!n i Ion of himself. #/ We saw a man on the ?treet the , other day with a twelve dollar shirt ! on. He was looking in the window of a store at the same shirt which he can now buy for one-half the amount. If you paid sixty dollars for a suit t last fall, which you might have done I without, and you see that same suit, or one just like it, we should* say, dis ? played in the show window (no, we ' didn't s^y advertised ip the county paper) at thirty dollars, you may not tell anybody about it, but you know that you did not buy ^ bargain. And there is another thing which is making some of us feel the effects nf /WJnt.iftTi iust now. In makins: out the incom* ax of a citizen the other day, he reported the sale of twenty one bales of cotton last year at more than four thousand dollars. He did not sell the cotton until after Christ mas, and he is paying income tax th's year on the profits 6f the'forty cents cotton, and is having to pay this in come tax out of the proceeds of cot ton which he has just sold, or must soon sell, at eleven cents. That does make a man feel foolish. ADVERTISING AND RATES The Herald and News, of Newberry announces that the Board of Direc tors of that paper has voted to make the rate for display advertising 25 cents per inch instead of 30 cents as heretofore. Which causes us to say that the ad vertising rate by the papers in Abbe v;ile has never been much higher than one-half of thirty cents. And at that rate the merchants in Abbeville have net patronized the papers to any great extent, and now are not patron sing them at all. The merchants lat Newberry patronize their .papers at the higher rate, however. The fact is that if the advertise ments were to speak foi che mer chants of Abbeville the decree would be that there is no need for a news paper in Abbeville. The merchants here prefer to do business as they do in Due West, Calhoun Falls, Donalds and other small towns which have no newspapers. * We presume that the merchants here think advertising does not pay, else they wculd advertise. The merchants .in other places think that it does pay to advertise, tnd they advertise. The Greenwood Index-Journal circulates rather free ly in Abbeville, and the merchants in ( reenwood advertise. The people in *1* Ml ?i_ - A_1._ xL:_ i ADDevuie wno taKe irus paper reau the advertisements of the Greenwood merchants, and the result is that a good many people are trading in Greenwood. If you will look ever the personal column of the Index-Journal almost any day in the week you will find the names of Abbeville people who are in. Greenwood. They are - there to -)L?:ade. Their, numbers are, growing. We believe that the merchants, iiy Abbeville carry as good merchandise as the merchants in Greenwood. We believe they sell it as reasonably. But the people see the advertise ments of the Greenwood merchants and they know these merchants have what they want. They do not know that the mer chants in Abbeville have what they want and quite naturally they go to Greenwood. Then, again, there is a feeling on the part of the public that if a man in the mercantile business has any thing worth while to offer these days, | e will offer it through the advertis-: j ing columns of his home paper. If j j the merchant does not do this, the [ people conclude that they should; 'trade somewhere else. They have a! j suspicion that something is wrong i with goods which are not advertised.! A man should not hide his light | under a bushel. ! ' ! j BLACKHAND AFTER HIM The rich young ruler says that he j has been dethroned, but there is evi j dently someone around here who j does not believe him, for Sunday he j received the following letter, written i on an advertisement of floor cover j ings and mailed at Abbeville in an I envelope with the Clemson College i letter head: "Dear- Sir?If you don't leave $5 thousand under trash can in front of post office'you shall be kill Tues night. , _ j Please leave it Mon nite at 12 p. m. From Slim Jim at Pokes Pasture. P S. If you tell Chief Johnson you be sorry. Ha, Ha. The ruler came down eax-ly Mon ! day morning to consult with his friend Reese about the matter. The former has not yet decided whether he will put the "$5 thousand" under the trash can, or not, but friend Reese told us he had decided that if the money was put there he would get it before Slim Jim arrived, or j know the reason why. The ruier tnmKs 01 staying m ueu ' all day Tuesday so that Slim Jim I may not get him if he fails to put I the money at the appointed place. ANDERSON DAILY TRIBUNE TO CONTINUE IN FIELD j Anderson, March 11.?The And erson Daily Tribune, the local morn ing paper, printed an announce ; ment yesterday stating that it will continue publication. The announce ment is made in response to many inquiries whether it will continue in the field since the death last week of its founder and editor, Victor B. Cheshire. The announcement in part is as follows: l "To the subscribers of this news paper and the public in general, it j will be good tidings to learn that The Tribune will continue as a .morning newspaper in Anderson. Since the death of Victor B. Ches hire, founder and publisher of The Tribune, many inquiries have been made about the future of the paper, i and it has been rumored that The (Tribune would pass out of exist I ence. To those who have shown in terest in the future of The Tribune, i it is a pleasure to announce that Mrs. Victor B. Cheshire will be pub i^lisher of The Daily xriDune, wrnie iMr. T. F. Pruett, recently of Mont gomery, Ala., but formerly of An derson, has accepted the position of | managingeditor. -Mr. Pruett has al i ready arrived in And?rson and has [entered upon his duties, with The : Tribune. | Col. McAlily Expresses Opinion j Mr. W. S. McAlily "dropped in" j'to the Press and Banner one day last ' week and made a few remarks about 'the old town. He thinks it all a sad i ' ; mistake about Greenville street be ' ing the best street in town and says ; North Main has Greenville "skinned two blocks." He says every body on North Main has cleaned up since the . street paving, having planted grass between the curbing and the side walk and that the grass is growing. That there are fnore preity flowers and good looking women on his side of town. That the men folks are hav ing goose suppers and that a sign of a high liver now is to have a goose quacking in your back yard. CLOSING UP WORK i I Mr. Mickle, of the street paving force* went up to Anderson for Sun 1 day. The wor? <EtfV;the side w^lis will j : be finished up JEoday and byjftlfe end ' of the week the job will be closed, up. The street paving force has been. in Abbeville for two years and have made an excellent job of their work.1 Our people have found them pleas ant, agreeable gentleman and wish them well wh(. ever they go. i ! MR. DERBYSHIRE SICK Rev. A. J. Derbyshire has been1 quite sick at Trinity rectory for the past week and no services were held in the Episcopal church Sunday. Mr. Derbyshire is suffering from asthma. HIS SERMON CAUSED TALK i I Gave Setback Thunder, Says One? Let Down Bart Saya Another The Rev. Louis J. Bristow preached a striking sermon in the Baptist church Sunday morning; and judging from the amount and difference of . the comment the ser mon has elicited from those who heard it, it must have fairly well covered the ground. The feature of the comment, however, is that everyone says the preacher exactly expressed his or her sentiments? according to the point of view of commentator. Mr. Bristow spoke of the Christian life, and presented several principles for the conduct of a church mem ber. He said he could not give rules for the conduct of anyone, as the Bible 'gave no rules. He could nriri/>in1oc at: flip .Rihlp cnuixvmwv ?w w..w ?...v gave principles; and he gave four, as follows: Liberty, conviction, con science, and influence. Mr. Bristow did not mention by name any business practice of amusement, ' but aibout every conceivable thing under the sun is supposed to have been in thet preacher's mind by various ones wh4 were in the congregation. " ; Qtfve Setback Thunder As soon as the service was over, one deacon who himself does not play setback, hurried to grasp the jjreacher's hand, saying, "Let me congratulate you; that sermon was the best I've heard in a long time. You certainly gave the setback players thunder." About the same time, a gushing young matron whb is a devotee of bridge, said to the preacher, "You've let the bars down for our men to play cards," and so the comment went. O.ne young lady says tfie sermon has "torn me all up; I want to dance and the preacher said I couldn't." Further conversation brought out the fact that the preacher said everyone should be "fully persuaded Viio n-a>n minH." and this cirl's conscience was against her, rather than the preacher's words. One young fellow who was 'stung' in a real estate trade last summer, says Mr. Bristow was preaching especially against profiteers. And thus it goes. Everyone seems agreed that the principles set forth by the sermon were correct; but there is wide divergence of opinion as to the application of the principles. At any rate, those who want to play cards, or dance, or profiteer, or do anything else against which their own conscience rebels, were disap pointed that the preacher did not tell them to do it, and so relieve their own responsibility. But alas, and alack, that is just what he did not do. HONOR ROLL OF THE ( WARRENTON SCHOOL The following is the honor roll for Warrenton school for the month end ing March 11th: Ferrell Ashley i Virginia Boslefr Kennesaw Thomas Refta McNeill. Wallace (McNeill Chris Thomas Aiken McNeill John Allen Wilson Herbert Wilson, Mrs. Gilliam, Miss Herbert, Teachers A RETURN SOLDIER The body of William Brown, a World War veteran, the son of Han-j nah Brown, was brought to Abbe-; ville Sunday and was buried at( Spring Grove. The remains were ac-1 companied by Sergt. French and the coffin was wrapped in a United States flag giving the funeral a mili tary appearance. HOME FOR SUNDAY Hon. I^uljfert Cc6c,<^iis finished his work as a member of the legislature from Abbeville County and came home Sunday for a short rest. He is studying law at tne university, xie was accompanied by his sister, Miss Margaret Cox, a student at Chicora College. MISS HALL SICK Mr. DeWitt Hall received news Saturday of the serious illness of his daughter, Miss Beulah Hall, in At lanta and left at once for her bed side. THE DEACON'S SUPPER I The Junior Deacons of the Baptist church are planning to give a supper in th? social hall of the church, Fri-j day evening of n^xt week, the 25th inst. They will have as their guests the Deacons and the Pastor of the church. The supper will be served by Circle number one of the Woman's auxiliary. It was at first arranged to have the supper this week, but the date was postponed on account of the meetiner which is going on in the Methodist church. HERE FROM LLEVEL LAND Mr. A. F. Carwile was in town from Level Land Monday. He brings the news that every body is hard at work, the farmers have taken advantage of the fine weather and are getting ready for a crop. He says the acreage is to be cut and that the fertilizer supply will be cut exactly half. IS DRAW IN The ru prices f p Never before hav of hats of varied i ' previous season's ety?Here the ne shapes, and new inspection and se are pre-war offei Sttlc We have a numb Spring wear. 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