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Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ( ABBEVILLE, S. C. i The Press and Banner Company j Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday, -j Entered as second-Liass matter ai' 9oct office io Aoheville, S. C. ~ j Ten m of Subscription t One Year $2.09; Six months $1.00 j Three months .59! ^ i - | Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION t ?. | FRIDAY, /. JULY 1,192! .. f ? r NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS J ??? On the first Saturday olr each; month our subscription lists are cor rected. All parties in arrears are I' dropped. A good many subscribers' whose subscriptions are expiring this ; month have not yet renewed. They are urged to mail checks or to call' * and renew their subscriptions before next Saturday. ' i A HIGH SCHOOL. Last fall we were all enthusiastic;, for the location of the Baptist Preparatory School in Abbe-: ville. We would still like to see the institution located here. If we can-, not get that institution a high school under any other jurisdiction would be welcomed here, and much could be: done to ehcourage its coming. It ' would be a good thing from an edu-i' cational standpoint and a good thing. for the town from a business stand-' \ i pom:. | But just now we believe that great-1 er good may come to all the people1 of the city by building up a great' ( high school here which is open to the public and which any boy or girl of the county may attend free of cost. It is a matter of common knowledge ' that it is expensive to send students . to boarding schools, espciia'.iy thos?; of the preparatory classes. It is un- 1 fortunate in the life of an undevcl-j oped student that nt th<$ preparatory school age he must oe si-rit away:' from home. It were a great deal b-?t-1 ter for this community if w? might' -i]l the. boys and ?li the girls of: y'f community lo il pil !'? tnJjJ1' W.ool of our own, aii if we had -rxj^ fc.gh school open to t?h th-j high j school pupils of the county. And that is what v/e m^y have.1 The people 01 this <*Uy by nc un-> I ^ certain voice have declared for a i ' modern high school. In a little wh.le, construction of a building which1' will accommodate all the high school | students of the'city and of the sur-j roUnding country will be completed. I How may we make it most useful?' We answer that by saying that this-! ;nay be accomplished by putting on, vthe faculty a double set of teachers ,i ?one of ladies to teach the young i, ladies, and one of men to train the', boys. It is a noteworthy fact that j boys in high schools taught by men J do much better work than when at the same age they are 'taught by ladies. Boys at the age of fifteen orj sixteen feel that jt is a humiliation! for them to recite to ladies. It is! said that they do not develop as a'. rule as fast as the girls. Them may be true but we doubt it. We believe that with* teachers who appeal to I them they will do as good work, pei'-j haps better work, than the girls. Had we a school of this kind we might expect boys and girls too to come to this school from Antreville, Sharon, Calhoun Falls and from every other section of the county. With the good roads they might easi-| ly come from home each day. ' We would be giving the boys $t bfivpe. a: fcood opportunity, the best of opppr- ' tunities, and we would b^ iWa<iing'iri! the matter of education in :the, co.unty, a leadership which belongs to us, and one which we should gladly ac-j It would be a great deal cheaper than sending to a boarding school as we have said. All students would J>e spared the expense of board and many other expenses. Besides this the state is now appropriating three dollars per month for every high school pupil who attends a state high school without his own district. If .me could bring in a hundred from the outside, it would mean an in<ome of twentyjseven hundred dol-j lars in addition to the income from: this district The State Superintend-, ent of Education prpposes that thisj - / allowance be increased to five dollars per month 'for every pupil, which is nearer right. With a hundred pupils from the outside at this figure our income would be swelled by the sum pf five thousand dollars, a sum enough greater than what we are now receiving to enable us to employ two first class male instructors. If we gave one hundred thousand dollars to the Baptist High School or to any other high school, the interest on the gift would be, at seven per cent., seven thousand dollars annually. Were we to contribute even half this amount annually to the local high school, we could have a faculty of both male and female teachers. This money might be raised every year by private subscription. There are thirty-five men in Abbeville who can give a hundred dollars each year for this nurnosp and nnt. lrmw have given the amount thirty minutes after the giving. Of course we are all miserly and want the other fellow to do it, and we are afraid that we will do something for somebody else, but the time has come for us to open up and be, as it were, real sports. Better still it would be, that instead of giving one hundred thousand dollars to bring an outside institution to Abbeville, we gave the cne hundred thousand dollars to the board of trustees as an endowment fund for the high school, the income from it to go along with the present income to support tne double faculty. Men and women of Abbeville, we can do something, if we will. Are: we wiling to do it, or are we to be j sluggards in the field where all menj are called to work in this good day ?the field of education? COOPER TO NAME ADJ. GEN. TODAY - # Columbia, June 30.?Governor VV VV44 v^yvuuvii ^ j today that he would probably make an appointment of an adjutant general Friday. The governor leaves for Greenville t-he end of the week, and he stated today that was anxious to get the adjutant general's appointment disposed of before he leaves. There are five names before 'he governor for consideration, \as follows: Frank W. Glen of Columbia, property and disbursement officer of the guard. Reed plkin of Columbia, executive secretaty of the Wildcat Association. Col. P. K. McCully, Anderson, former commander of the second South Carolina. Former Assistant Adjutant General John D. Frost of Spartaburg, for merly of Columbia. Present Assistant Adjutant General R. W. Grant of Columbia. TO BUY AND PAY UP Camden June 30.?Merchants and business men of Camden are busy this week making ready for one of the greatest events which has happened in Camden for many year July 5 to 12 will be known as "Buy at home; pay up week" and it is being carried out under the auspices of the Camden and Kershaw county chamber of commerce. During this week every merchant in the city will put on a special sale, making reductions on every article possible with I other special inducements to those who pay up their old accounts. The merchants are looking forward to great results from this week, for the movement means much toward bringing the business men closer together, and at the same time it1 means to laying of a solid foundation to greater Camden and Ker ;sha,W county. GREENVILLE; MILLS TO PAY DIVIDENDS h';;.: . . Greenvijle, June ?Following the meetings of diretcors of-four additional cotton mills here today, announcements of dividends to be paid July 1- were made. The Woodside Cotton Mills company, will pay 3 1-2 per cent, semi annual on both common and preferred stock, the carpital totaling $3,500,000. Brandon mills will pay 3 per cent, on the common stock of $957,000 and 3 1-2 per cent on the preferred stock of $500,000. Poinsett mills will pay 3 per cent, semi-annual on its capital of $470,000. Woodruff mills will pay 5 per cent semi-annual on its capital of $525,[000. PLENTY EXCITEMENT FOR JULY FOURTH ! Boy Scouts at Cotton Mills Planning For Big Day?Two Balls Games and Plenty Fireworks. For those who want excitement or entertainment on the Fourth Abbeville offers unusual attractions next Monday. Two baseball games are to j be played between the Abbeville Cotton Mills team and Honea Path, one ' in the morning and one in the afterj noon, and at night there is to be a i display of fireworks that has never j before been approached in this city. Those who have seen the fireworks at State fairs and other places where there are very large gatherings will know what, an attraction Abbeville is offering. This is not an ordinary .collection of fire crackers, sparklers and [ Roman candles; it is not a lot of noise and smoke and danger. It is an exhibition that includes pieces of marvelous beauty. There will be a 'total of more than one hundred ' pieces few of which have ever before j been equaled in this county. Some | of the set pieces are Aladdin's Jew-i ! eled Tree, the Blazing Sun, Japan-1 ' ese Fan, the Cascade and the Indian! I Jugglery. There will be several mag! nesiiim torches, the brightest light ! made. There will be showers of stars 'and streams of fire of all colors. This display has been purchased j by the Boy Scouts of the Abbeville | Cotton Mills at a cost that would j make it a real financial risk if it I were not certain that it would at- j tract a large crowd of people. The! boys are asking only a small ad-: mission to the baseball park where. the display is to be shown and they, hope to have at least a thousand, spectators when the first cannon sa-' lute is fired at 9:30 p. m. The baseball, too, is sure to be! the exciting kind. Honea Path andAbbeville have met twice before during this season with the result that each team has won one game anJ even the total scores made by each side in both games are tied. The local team is stronger than it was anclj expects to break the tie by winning both games of this double header | :hough it is sure to be a close fight. The first game will be played at 10 o'clock in the morning and the second at 3:30 in the afternoon. I SNAKE BITES DOCTOR I ; - ? Ehrhardt, June 30.?Dr. Wm. Moorer a prominent physician of! Lodge in Colleton county, was bitten by a rattlesnake this morning; while bathing in Little Salkehatchie, near Carter's ford. The snake was killed by some of those present ancl was less than two feet long. However, the bite had made Dr. Moorer very sick and he is now at Ehrhardt in the hands of Dr. Copeland and Dr. Fender, who are working to bring him around. Dr. Moorer has lived at Lodge for the past 18 or 20 years, coming to the community from St. George, where he was born and reared. He is a brother of J. M. Moorer a prominent attorney of the Colleton bar. V V V SHARON V \ \ Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Ruff and Mr. W. P. Ruff and family#of Greenwoocf attended service^ at Sharon church Sunday. We had a fine rain Tuesday. While there was a good bit of wind there was no serious damage done. Misses Martha Pressly, Sarah Wil* son, Sarah Harkness. Sallie Sue Ramey, Mrs. J. M, Mason and Juanita Mason attended the Woman's Missionary Conference held in McCormick June 29-30. Bbrh tof Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Prin<je June 27, a son. The Woman's Missionary Society of Sharon church will hold their regu lar monthly meeting Wednesday, July 6, at 4 o'clock at the church. All members are urged to be present, visitors are always welcome. The delegate to the District Meeting will give her report at that time. Mrs. W. H. Murray has returned ^ J to her iicwne in ixreenwuuu aiver a visit to her father, Mr. Penney. In the Cambria coal field of Wyoming =rmall quantities of gold and silver are present in the coal veins. In South Africa a similar occurrence has been noted, the coal occnrring in small streams running thru the quartzite ore. BIG CHANGES IN ANGLO-JAPANESE PACT Predicted it Will Be Merc Shadow of Former Self Smuts will Urge Mutual Understanding. London, June 30.?The Anglo-Jap anese alliance is not to be renewed in its present form, it has already been made abundantly clear, although the discussion of the treaty by the conference of British premiers has just begun. While Arthur J. Balfour and Lord Curzon, the only members of the conference thus far who'have dealt with the subject, used due diplomatic caution in th?ir speeches according to information which may be regarded as authoritative they left an impression that while ' the British government would like to have some IU11J1 Ui uuuciaoauuiiig WlUl uopttll It is not inclined to continue the present purely military agreement. Inasmuch therefore, as Premier Meighen of Canada and Premier Smuts of South Africa will strongly urge, against an alliance of any kind, but will advocate a British-American Japanese understanding instead, the clear prospect is that if the alliance is renewed at all it will be little more than a shadow of its former self. Premier Meighen prepared for today's conference a stated case against the alliance which, it is understood will be circulated in the conference as a confidential document. General Smuts, who is to follow, will support Premier Meighen and will in all likelihood, attack the whole foreign policy of special alliances and will urge/instead, a mutual understanding with nations throughout moral and intellectual sympathy." SENATE CHANGES MEET OPPOSITION Borah Disarmament Plan and Bureau of Aeronautics Scheme For Disarmament Accepted. Washington, June 30.?Senate ainenameiiT-s 10 ine jiavai appropriation bill generally met with disfavor in the house today during consideration of the conference report on the measure. Only a few of the senate changes were agreed to, among them the Borah disarmament amendment and a proposal to create a bureau of aeronautics in the navy department. Amendments calling for an increased appropriation met with opposition practically without exception. The bill will reach the senate again tomorrow the last day before he beginning of the fiscal year for which it makes provision, and if it is rushed to the president for his signature to become effective at midlight, it will be necessary for the jnate to yield on all of the amendments which met with house dispproval. Among these was an amendment mthorizing an initial expenditure of ?15,000,000 towards the construction .f two airplane carriers. BONDED WAREHOUSE BURNED IN LAURENS Laurens, June 30.?The Bonded Warehouse operated near Cold Point, by L. M. Beacham, under the supervision 01 tne state warenouse commissioner, was Tuesday afternoon destroyed by fire which was started by lightning striking the building during a thunderstorm. Ninety-rfive bales of cotton went up in smoke. Though the fire engine from this city was carried to the fire, nothing could be done to save it. The building was of concrete with a tin roof, a standard warehouse in the state system. Full Line of OfficeSupplies We have any thing you neeu irum a, paper clip to an Adding Machine. THE ECHO "The Really Musical Spot in Abb?TUI?." I A green parrot swinging in a tree , in Evanston, Illinois, jammed traffic for Blocks by calling out, "Not so fart?go slow! Stop!" The same j ?' ! Radiator Repairing We have one of the best equipped radiator plants in the Piedmont Section of the state/ NEW CORES PUT IN ANY MAKE RADIATOR. Out of town business given special attention. J. W. Spearman, Oak St. Greenwood, S. C. i - Charter No. 3421. ! i REPORT OF COl NATIONAL BANK AT ABBEVILLE, IN THE STATE C CLOSE OF BUSINESS RESOt Loa.iR and discounts, including redisco' those shown in b and c) TOTAL LOANS Deduct: Notes and bills rediscounted with Ft serve Bank (other than bank a< cnlrl Overdrafts unsecured U. S. Government securities owned: Deposited to 3ecure circulation (U. S. value) All other United States Government TOTAL Other bonds, stocks, securities, etc., ?_ Banking House, $50,000.00; Furnit Fixtures $6,370.22 Real ^state owned other than banking Lawful reserve "with Federal Reserve Cash in vault and amount due from banks Amount due from banks, bankers, and panies in the United States (o included in items 8, 9 or 10) Checks on other banks in the sam? city reporting bank (other than item Total of Items 9, 10, 11, 12 and Checks on banks located outside of cit as reporting Dank and other easr Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer frofi U. S. Treasurer TOTAL LIABILT Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Undivided profits Circulating notes outstanding Amount due to State banks, bankers, companies in the United Stated a countries (other than included 21 or 22 Cashier's checks on own bank outstani Total of Items 21, 22, 23, 24, an< Demand deposit* (other than hank dep ject to Reserve (deposits payable days: # ' Individual deposit subject to check __ Certificates of deposit due in less than (other than for money borrowed Dividends Unpaid ? Total of demand deposits, (other tha posits) suoject Lu xveserve, items 28, 29, 30 and 31 Time deposit* subject to Reserve (pay. 30 days, or subject to 30 days o: tice, and postal savings): Certificates of deposit (other than fo: borrowed) Total of time deposits subject to Items 32, 33, 34 and 35 U. S. Government' Securities borrowed Bills payable, other than with Federal Bank (including all obligations re] money borrowed other than redis Bills payable with Federal Reserve Ba: TOTAL ? STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE, ss I, Lewis Perrin, Cashier of the ab that the above statement is true to the Subscribed and sworn to b ii ore n Correct Attest: A. M. SMITH J. S. MORSE, Directors. W. M. BARNWELL nrnmeionnrnmeiisifsimrnrarsirarsimrararamraiarararnr | Just Arrr New Sterling, and Flatware,, sortment of Ci cially suitable presents. F. E. HARi ,;]; . Jew 5f5J9J5IEjBJSJBISJB15J5fB?5!BfBJB/5JBJEJB/S/BfSJEJBJ i 1 ' pnCI^TMr t 110,3/ LIVOMilt. * DUE WES Eighty -four years of continu Unwavering Adherence to thorough Scholarship. Courses: A. B., B. S.f M. A. Literary Societies Emphasize Intercollegiate Contests in ] worthy of comparison. Adequate Equipment and En Board in College Home at j?] Moderate. [| For catalogue and Applicatio I ERSKINE < 1 DUE WES' Wholesale murder was one of the chief featurs in religious and state ceremonies in the kingdom of Da homey. II J. L. PERRIN, JR. I * t } ! !!! * Public Stenographer j||; Room 204 j|[. ;|! Municipal Building ' jj: :: ""-"j':" ? i ?" Reserve District No. 5 ' EDITION OF THE . ; OF ABBEVILLE IF SOUTH CAROLINA, AT THE ON JUNE 30, 1921. iRCES. lints (except $432,155.43 432,155.43 deral Rejceptances _ 4,912.50 427,242.93 914.27 914.27 bonds par 18,750.00 Securities 105,500.00 124,250.00 - - 20,114.00 ;ure and 56,370.22 house __ , 661.30 Bank 29,779.07 national 7,174.34 trust com- 1 ther than ... 444.22 or town as 12) 418.18 13 8,036.74 y or town t items 679.00 and due . ? 937.50 $668,985.03 TTWC 75,000.00 30,000.00 8,437.86 18,450.00 and trust nd foreign in Items 3,306.64 1,943.62 l125 .. .. 5,250.16 o?iU) ?'bwithin 30 , 286,732.65 "30 days 43,898.86 ) 3,088.00 n bank de333,^19.61 able after ^ r more nor money 77,000.00 i&er , 77i000.00 6.0 00 Reserve presenting 30,000.00 counts) 90,477.50 nk " " $668,985^03 ove named bank, do solemnly swear best of my knowledge and belief. LEWIS PERRIN, Cashier, le this 1st day of July, 1921. W. H. WHITE, Notary Public. f gj2J2?5?5JSJSISJSI3ISISJ3/3J3JSJ3J3?2J3JS15J'i'^ ired I }> S> Hollow-ware, i| also a pretty asLit Glass.?Spefrti* wprl^inor ? X f RISON, Jr. I eler. ;j| COLLEGE 1921 j ous service. Christian Character and i{ , Pre-Medical, Special. ||j fel Debate, Oratory and Athletics ? dowment. gj Cost. Price in Private Homes g! r. Blank, write to " & COLLEGE, I r, S. C. P; SJSJSEfgfSJS/gfgfgOSIEJEIEISfEJSISJSrSISISiSJSiS.