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r AUCi i' uom j, Established 1844. t THE PRESS AND BANNER < ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Js Published Tri-Weekly ' Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 1 Entered as second-liass matter ai I post office in Abbeville, S. C. ' Ter, qi of Subscription: One Year ? Six months - Three months $2.o?r $1.00 * .50 * Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION MONDAY, MAY 23, 1921. THE REASON WHY. I I Two Greenwood merchants are; taking more advertising space in the , Press and Banner today than all the |1 merchants in Abbeville are taking, The Greenwood merchants are goingj to use more space in the Press and i * Banner. j One Greenwood shoe shop soldi more shoes to Abbeville people last week than any three stores in Abbe ville sold to Abbeville people. If you will read the Greenwood paper, and it is worth reading, you will find that good Abbeville people are in Greenwood every day. They go there to trade. 1 ?nHv<>r. I The Ureenwoou mwvuauw ? ? tise in their home paper and thus they have built up a business which reaches out into other counties 'as far as the paper reaches.'-They are beginning to reach over into the town of Abbeville and take away the customers of the home merchants. The latter think business is dead. If you will read the Lexington papers you will see that they are full of the advertisements of Columbia merchants. On the streets of Colum bia, and in the Columbia stores, every day you will' find Lexington people doing their shopping. If you were in Lexington you would find the Lexington merchants asleep on their counters, or maybe sitting on a dry goods box, of last year, telling somebody how dull business is. But the merchants in Columbia and in Greenwood know better. Hence they advertise. / Some people want to know why Abbeville does not grow and prosper like other communities. Look at the advertising columns of the local pa pers and you will know the reason why. Our merchants have lost their x nat rai nocne nas sent me eu:-i < tor more vegetables than any other 1 subscriber to this paper. But the J summer is still young. < That Dr. Davis has been seen about the hospital, and that the stockhold- 1 ers are looking more hopeful. 1 That Corp. Kerr has taken his old ' shirt from Uncle Jim's fence rail and : is now wearing it again himself. j < That some of the judges who do .i "pep." It takes "pep" to get busi ness. WE NOTICE? That when George Harvey got across the waters he began by telling the truth in plain United States. That those persons who have been telling us in "holier than thou" lan guage about our going to war to save civilization fail to mention in that connect1'on that when civiliza tion was at stake they ran a cam paign on, "He kept us out of war." That Mack Daniel, Neil Sweten burg and Sanford Howie did not "use" on Greenville street much yes terday. They spent a quiet Sabbath with the home people. That beef is still h'gh and cows are still cheap. That the grocery bill still comes due once a month, and a part of it is still past due. That the old gray mare and farm ing are not what they used to be. That the Spartanburg Journal wants a few people hanged and a few others put in the penitentiary. Over in Spartanburg they think it is a kind of picnic occasion to serve as a member .of the county chain gang. That the Presbyterians will call another pastor next Sabbath. That cotton has not yet gone up, but the farmers are still making it. That the weather is getting better for the ice business and palm beach suits. That a good many old last year's straw hats have been called under the Summer Selective Service act. ] he most 'exhorting about duty-doing ;E 'all down themselves sometimes. ] That the Supreme Court is still in{ ;ession but will soon adjourn for the j ;ummer. That the Due West commencement! s coming right on. I j That this is the week when the: )retty college girls begin to come! lome?and the ugly old boys. ! That everybody is getting ready j ;o come to the Abbeville High School j; I J :ommencement to see the pretty girl I ^ graduates and to hear Judge Benet'? igain.' ! That the bond money has come, i ^ iVe got our part before it came.'j lowever. We still have it. ;> That if it pays to advertise the;^ nerchants in Abbeville have been j ^ >aid already. 't That a good -many people in Abbe-; t rille went to Greenwood to do their;, shopping last week. . | That everytime we write another j j ine the good-looking linotype oper- j ^ uors irown agam, su hcic u n..viv^ ire quit. ' :OL. AND MRS. billings I f - / : return FROM TRIP ] j ??? ' x Col. Josh .Billings, of the Sea-U >oard, takes a day or two off some-, ^ imes for an outing. Recently he j md Mrs. Billings went down to! \ Villiston to spend a few days with' c Be home people of Mrs. Billings. I a They had a pleasant stay, and Col.! i osh had some new experiences. He! ried his hand out at fishing, but he I j. ays the low country fish will not s ate for an up-countryman. After he lad tried it for several days he gave ip the fight and joined a party going iut to get some honey from a bee- E re<\ r He was more successful in the t toney business, he says, because t irhen the tree was cut,* it was found ^ o be "well lined with honey. The j Colonel collared a piece about eight j? nche long and cix inches broad and r rte it without either bread or but- J c' er. He says it gave him a slight s ase of indigestion, but he hopee to ^ ive to get over it. s While they waited at Hodges on f he homeward trip a few days ago. ( tfrs. Billings told a good joke on the ? Colonel. He had never been down in- x (O Mrs. Billing's country, and not x >eing a "native born" of this grand j >ld commonwealth, he didn't know j vhether Williston was ten, a hun- ] ired or a thousand miles from Ab- ? jeville. But he had decided to go j lown and see the future Airs. Bill- ^ nge. He asked one of the transfer g nen at Abbeville what he would iharge to transport him to Willis- } on, and how long it would take him j 0 go there. The price was fixed, and t le was told that the trip could be x nade in two hours. So the next Sat- ( irday, Colonel Billings worked until ? [ P. M., polished up from 4 to 6 P. } H., and at 6:01 was in the road for x iVilliston as he suposed. He carried f 1 bunch of roses, a five pound box of g :andy and big expectations. c It was in the winter days and by t r :30 it had been dark a good while, t le was put out at the drug store, he p ays, or some other sto^e, but he ] rould not find the places which had j; >een ^mentioned by Mrs . Billings, jt tnd when he inquired of pas?ers-by t f they knew the lady in the case, \ lone of them knew her. He was c rreatly nonplussed. He felt a little s razy anyway as it was his ' first f outring trip in a good many years. r le didn't know whether he had been i isleep, was then asleep, or whefther c i good joke had been played on him. v Anally he passed the bank in the } own where he was and noticed that i nstead of being at Williston, he was t n the city of Willington, S. C., a nore than a hundred miles away. (\ Ml this time Mrs. Billings, as she i, low is, was in the parlor trying to t 09k, disinterested as she waited fori v .he gentleman in the case, and as { ;h'e hours passed and he did not ? rome, she crossed his name from the i ist of her acquaintances, that is un-!j ;il explanations had been made. j t Colonel Billings, when he found i 1 lis mistake, stayed around Wiling-! 1 x>n for awhile. He didn't tell any-! j >ody his business nor of his disap- [ t >ointment, least of all the hackman, 1 secause he didn't want the news to t eak out in Abbeville, but the way : le "cussed" inwardly is know of i jvery courting man. | i The Colonel says, however, that j i tie stayed in Willington long enough 1 j to find out that all the good-looking j widows, rich old maids and pretty i maidens in that city, had been fully courted by Dr. Link, and that Will- 1 Lngton was no place for him. j1 >OTE WRITES LETTER TO EDITOR, DEALING WITH TIMELY TOPICS Abvul, s. c., May 31st, 1921 deer edditoral.?i has bin reedin n yore paiper where it sais that ad rertisin pais, it is not so. and if liz :ie wusnt standn here looking at vhat i am ritin i wood say that it is i dam ly. i have tride it out and it is s anything but payin. the last time ordered fish i had yuo to put a note n your papier that the fish wus :omin and wood be hear sattidy af ;ernune. well, when the fish was rid n into the Seaboard deppot, dr. s.Tifar was comin down the rode to jit hisn, and so was sevrul uther :ellars, and by the time my boys got I ne nsn 10 my piais, uiere wus a itreem of ordermorebiles and wun loss waggons in frunt of mee as long is a nigger funeral, and no sooner iad the fish bin unloded than evry 'ellar wanted the biggest fish and vanted to git it fust. I nevar was vurked as .hard in my life and by the ime i reached the bottom of that j ish kag i was swettin drops of msperashun bout the size of wal rnts, and i sais to lizzie no moar ad ertisin fer mee. I don't mind a little vurk when i cant git out of it nur >ush it off on a nuther fellar, but vhen it corns to work i want it un lerstood that i aint no ellerphunt, ind i aint goner try to carry no trane oad of nuthin. i wanter tell you bout a nuther ?izness whiteh aint no lemmonade tand nur smokin no good seegar. it s this bizness of sellin ice. says i to oyself this spring i will git the job if peddlin ice on b. mane this sum ner and i will have a nice cool biz less, whitch will get oaver evry day ?out leven o'klock and i will cum up own evry evning and talk pollertics vith the boys, well, i took on the ob and the furst mornin i drive (own with .the ice evry woman in s. nane run out and say that everybod ly in town git ice before she do, and he wanter to know sumthin bout the vay she bein treated. One good Jady ;ay as how she traded with me fur wenty punds and that after cuttin >ff enuff to make a pitcher of water ind settm it in the sun fur fifteen ninutes and then washin it, it did lot way but nineteen and seven-aths rounds, and she say she is gofier re-.j 5ort me to the boss man. Ernuther ady was out tendin the missunary ;ociety, bying groceries, or jest talk-, n to sumboddie else bout the naburs vhen i got to her hous and i had to jo on by not knowin what she want-1 :d and immedjuiely after she come lome she foan the boss that i has >assed her hous every day this week mrl trivo hor short mesurs when she un after me and ketch me. Ernuth ?r say that the ice is full of ermony, ind emuther that it aint no count no low bekase it is made out of ole pipe vater. one fellar got a dime worth 'rom me on a credit and say he aint roner pay fur it bekos it melted lu'cker than sum he got last Kris nus. on top of this the next day af er i started my wagen it brake down md this kost me sixteen dolars and .5 cents, and the next day the boss tad to be shooed, and then the next iay it got skeered at wun of these lackless dresses whitch the wimmin s wearing and runned away and not tanly tore up my waggin again, but pilt the ice and while I go to git the '.oss, all the peepul gather in and do late the ice to theer own use nully tully. i has sed that i will run the !urn ice bizness till fall and i will inless it fust run me to the pore ious or to to the Syum. Lizzie say nnednt be skeered of neether as it aik a man with sents to go crazy md git in the Sylum and that Pore ious Tom wood objeck to a fellow vlff no more sents than me bein in he pore hous. an i has nott yit kon iivct lizzie that the hoss runned iway. she say that no hoss got keered of a woman's back and that was just lookin roun at the ladies ind driv the hoss and waggin into he ditch and turnt it oaver. you >eednt say nuthin bout it to lizzie >ut i has always been a kind of a !ool bout the wimmin, specially sints ;hey has gone back toards the fig eef stile of dressin. I has always! hought that it was a little hard on \ddum that he got sich a bad pun-i shment fur tryin to plees Eave when knode all the time that Dote Smith ,vood a got caught the saim way if le had bin there. well, i will not rite any moar how >ekos alien merkanty will be bizzy j ;n the feeld with his yung cotton and ivill not hev time to reed' a long letar FOWL MURDER COMMITTED IN ABBEVILLE YESTERDAY County Official Take No Action, Prominent Young Man Involved A fowl murder was committed just on the outskirts of the ci'iy late yesterday afternoon. No effort has been made, thus far, on the part of anv countv or citv official to aDpre hend the man who committed the deed. No inquest has been held by the county coroner. If the sheriff even knows about it, he has made no move to bring to the bar of account ability the man who perpetrated the deed and yet the young man who committed it walks the streets of the city today unmolested and with out even an apparent prick of con science, in fact he was laughingly telling of the experience about the streets last night, and seemed not the least up-set because of it. It was only in this way that the reporter for the Press and Banner even heard of the killing for the officers of the law seem to know nothing about it and care less. The f?w people who know about it; even have passed it up as of little conse uence, and yet it was one of the fowl est murders ever committed in cms rown. Speed caused it all, perhaps. Al though the young man at the steer ing wheel claims that he was run ning his car only at a moderate rat? of speed when the accident occurred Be this as at may, the fact remains jtkat a fowl murder was committed. The victim lies cold in death, find the officers of the law have made no move to get at the facts in the case. It may be true that the young man, driving the car, is one of the most prominent young men about town and the victim of the accident as black as the ace of spades, friend less, alone in tRe world unknown, uncared for, he may not have kith or kin in the world to mourn his death. He may lie buried in an ui> marked grave at this moment. He ncay soon be entirely forgotten, his Id^ath may have been a good rid dance, yet with the high price of meat it does seem a pity that the old biack rooster attempted to cross the street in front of that car/ driven yesterday afternoon by the afore said prominent young man, who at that time, was more interested in the young lady by his side than he was in runnig over and killing that chicken. BIG PETERSBURG TOBACCO PLANT CLOSED TILL JUNE 1 Petersburg, Va May 21.?The Bri tish-American Tobacco Company closed down its Petersburg plant to day "until June 1 owing to an accu mulation of s;ock due to the rate of exchange. The plant manufactures Cigarettes ior expon ana cuipiuyes about 1,200 person!?. but jfist tell the boys that if i kin ever git the ice bizr.ess to runnin itself i am a comin agin, till then be good. you:m everlasterly, DOTE. DON'T EXPERIMENT With Your Eyesight iklV ?n#l kfaur Cyc? aire iuv ia* ?.?? Jjrecisus to risk wearing glasses se lected at random. The glasses .we .furnish _will be made to your individual require ments, and accurate in every detail. Ours is a painstaking, dependble optical service L. V. LISEN BEE OPTOMETRIST TELEPHONES: Office 278 Res. 388 3 1-2 Washington St. Over McMurray Drug Co. ABBEVILLE, S. C. (Becoming Glasses Cost No More) | EFFORT MADE! TO BLOW UP HOME , OF A GEORGIA NEGRO Valdosta, Ga., May 21.?An effort was made today -to blow up the home of James Speed, negro switchman employed by the Southern railway, when a heavy dynamite charge was placed unaer lias house, fcpeed and his family were sleeping in the house, but escaped injury, although the building was partially wrecked. Speed has been with the railroad for 20 years and in said toiiave recently received anon;rmous letters telling him to "give up his job" as white men are being released and they heed it. An investigation of the dynamiting has been started. BANKS TO LIQUIDATE Anderson, May 21.?The stock holders of the Farmers and Mer chants bank and the Farmers Loan and Trust company met today to go over the affairs of these institutions I and after being in session several J hours it was decided to liquidate i obtn of them. j J. J. Major was made chairman of j the board of directors in charge of' the liquidation. Dividends will be! paid depositors and creditors as col-1 lections can be madfe. The Farmers and Merchants bank and the Farm ers Loan and Trust company in the last published statement have com bined resources of $2,000,000. Shrinkage of collateral and slow col lections on paper were given as the cause of the troubles of the bank. Watch the label on your paper. GLAD YC FOLKS or -and the responses Drennan made many when lie was there in I making* many friend ducting THE BOO BANKRUI I Of The PRATT $32, 000 STOCK HERE'S RARE OPI ?FOR THE MEN I 100 I MEN'S $15 ( I OXFORDS * | ?Yes Sir! They sold 1 Black Oxfords, then I there are English La I nation Lasts? 8 AND BEST OF ALI 1 ed on Sale TUESDA miifi HA/ lilt BUI R. BEN TA Successors to PRAT' GREENWC Chas. A. Drennar WE TAKE. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO ANY MAGAZINE PUB LISHED. i j THE ECHO ' "The Really Musical Spot In Abbeville." CITY PRESSING CLUB Suite Called For {r and \ . Delivered Promptly . Phone - - 425 F. K. McAdams !ET5IBI5IBlBEIBBIBEilBBSIB rafiiiizjfc''areirdfLlrflfaJ IU CAME ' ABBEVILLE vas appreciated. ' ?DRENNAN. friends in Abbeville December. He is s in Greenwood con T SHOPS PT UIF I I J. M1UUU & TAYLOR, Inc., OF "Fine Shoes" 'ORTUNITY! Pairs for $15.00; there are | 3 are Tan Oxfords, sts, there are Combi ' ! -i.v v; l:ii ^?They will be plac lY, for $3.95 a Pair. \t pnnn ji anvr YLOR, Manager, r & TAYLOR, Inc. )OD, S. C. i, Sales Manager.