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u Established 1844. i THE PRESS AND BANNER :?v I ABBEVILLE, S. C. t?v I ' The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Mon iay, Wednesday and Friday. Tr\ Entered as second- ilass matter at 9oct office in Abbeville, S. C. Tinu of Subscription: One Year $2.d? Six months $1.09 Three months .5? M-____________ Foreign Advertisng Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION . $ WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1921 THE SAVANNAH RIVER BRIDGE Some days ago the Secretary of the - * Chamber of Commerce along with EK<- ' others, who are interested in the / proposed bridge across the Savannah ; Biver, made a trip to Columbia and appeared before the State Highway Commission for the purpose of furthering the proposed building of this I '' bridge. It is now said that before -anything can be done by the State Highway Commission and before we may expect aid from the Federal : ) \ ' - / ... authorities it will be necessary to have the road surveyed and plans I made for the- bridge along with an ;estimate of its probable cost. That sounds like the State Highway Commission will proceed in this matter along business lines, and we should be prepared to do the same thing. IfHhe people are really in earnest in this matter, the people on this side of the river and those on the other side as well, we should get busy at once looking to the lo?V.' ; cation of the road leading towards1 Elberton, and the building of the nwJ VITA fVtAlllrl Viovo oil flip * ; VXIU^C OllU nr^ OliWUiU V U*i VMV ^ facts and figures in hand for the ' next meeting of the state body. We have before remarked that we Tegard the building of this bridge as a matter of considerable importance to the people of this county. If, as most people believe, travel in the fu: . ' ture, as well as short hauls of freight . is"to be by dirt roads instead of over the railroads, it is greatly to our interest to be on the map in the very beginning. We should be connected with the towns along the Seaboard in South Carolina and it will be of i - great profit . to us to be connected x with towns like Elberton and Athens, especially the latter city, where our ?' merchants buy largely even now. | The Chamber of Commerce and S- > ' . V , ! its secretary, Mr. Barnes, will not v . do a better work than to keep after this bridge until it is built. And the people of the city will serve their #wn interests best when they lend their do-operation in the work. tx DO IT YOURSELF. Governor Manning has returned from England where he went in the interest of the cotton grower* of the outh. He learned something while over there which all of us should have learned long ago, and that is, if we t want anything we must go and get it;'Nobody is going to bring us prosperity on a silver waiter and lay it in our laps. That is true with regard to cotton and it is true with regard ' to other things. " When the farmers learn that they mftst not raise more cotton than the world demands, if a proper price is .wanted; they will have solved the problems relating to the profitable producing of cotton. They must help themselves. What is true of the far mers in me matter 01 cotton is true of' all others in every other enterprise. If jws want #uc^ess we, .pnust c?mmahdu$ tfcrselgesjr-we must flay the price'ourselves,- and not Iodk ,to others to hand it to us. If we want to build enterprises in Abbeville there -J is one way, and only one way, to accomplish the desired end, and that is to do the work ourselves. If we want to build bridges, school houses, or other things which will tend to make the community a better Community, we must furnish the capital and do the work ourselves. This talk of advertising the.town and attracting outside capital is idle talk. The people who live in other communities and who have capital to invest make their investments in the enterprises oi their own cities, they do not furnish capital to build up other places. Nobody with good sense need expect them to do sc. We must take counsel Of their way of doing business an< prepare to do likewise if we expec to make Abbeville and Abbevill< County grow.,,deleoJtes appointed -? for bible society ft Ninety-Eighth AuiverMry To Bi Celebrated At Shiloh Church Next WedneMUy. The 9Sth Anniversary of the Ab beville District Bible Society, wil be held at Shiloh church on nexi Wednesday 27th, inst. This is th< first time that the annual meeting oJ the Society has been held at a coun try church and the second meeting elsewhere than at the Abbevilk Court House. We are experimenting 5n this way to see if we can't reviv< some of the old time interest in thes* anniversary meetings. Shiloh is om - ? -Li- - -n M-n.1 r.4 +V.C VI tut; <JiU jxiwwivruisb vimuuko vi w? county near Anttreville and has om of the strongest branch societies ir the county. We hope for a large attendance. The delegates from the Abbeville local society, besides the directors, several of whom liiv? fin town, arfc Mr. and Mrs. Prank W. Wilson, Mr, David Thomas, Judge Jones F. Miller, Dr. and Mrs. C. H. McMurray, Mis Roy Gallman, Mrs. R. C. Philson, Jilr. Otto Bri^ow, Mr. J. A. Alewine, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Perrtn, Mrs. W, M. Barnwell, Mrs. J. Allen Smith, Jr., Mr. L. C. Haskell, Mr. B. T. Cochran, Mrs. W. F. Nickles and Mr. Fred Cason. Every member oi the local socles are invited to attend, and it is -hoped that -those who have cai^will offer seats to tkeii friends that are not so fortunate as to own cars. Amos B. Morse, . Librarian and Treasurer, SHOT IN SHOULDER IN RAID ON STILL Anderson Daily Mail. " Late Saturday afternoon Deputj Wade Skelton, iRural Officers Bel] and Kay, Revenue Officer V. B. Marton and Sam McAdams, of Iva, made a raid on a still on Boss' Mc_ \ Adams place about two miles from Antreville and succeeded In capturing a still, and two negroes who were helping in the operation of the still. Sidney Smith was arrested and another negro, Tobe Newell, was shot by the officers before he could be captured. Tobe Newell is (reported to be a regular giant physically, and when the officers approached near the location of thd stilNNewell began firing a Winchester rifle on the officers and running away at the same time. Several of the officers returned the fire and one shot took effect in the right shoulder of Newell. Two other negroes and a white man made igood their escape. The - still was located in a dense piece of woods which made it difficult for the officers to follow the three men who escap ed. . ' 1 '1 i ;--i? , j , ,, Tobe Newell was brought to the Anderson county hospital, where, witli" little difficulty physicians located and removed the bullet which was lodged just under his ribs on the side. His condition is not serious and it was thought this morning that he couM be released from the hospital today. He will then be placed in the county jail. Officers stated that only about four gallons of whiskey were found at the still, hut that from all indications a big run was being completed. They found five empty barrels which appeared to have been emptied ol their contents of "mash" recently and it was supposed that probably several gallons of whiskey had beer removed from the still before; the\ got there.. The distillery was a com' pfete 'copper outfit of abotrt 00 gallons capacity. PRACTICAL JOKE . LEADS TO SHOOTINC Nashville, Tenn., July 19.?-A practical joke a year ago, played b; W. J. Bailey, sixty-five, oh Wil Knott, at Sidonia, near Dresden, re suited Sunday in Knott taking fivi shots at Bailey, two of which tool effect. Bailey will recover. Bailey jokingly told Knott th< ' deputyj|>e<riff had a writ out fa ,j him. Khetft left town for a year. Oi . his return "he found he was the vie ;'tim of a joke. The shooting follow , ed vheir first - meeting. . I 1 vvvvv j t K v> J V HITS BY HAL V % N , The Day's Question r Why the deuce do they want to catch Slim Jim anyway? ? _____________ Says the man with /the cane: Work make money, save. Then you cam loaf and let the money do the wotrk. * There is a young lady named Rox, k Her complexion she gets from a box, . She puts it oothick . , And looks like old nickYet thinks she's giving ' em a knox. t . 1 % Foolish Questions > What makes the movies move, , And why does a volplane vol?- < Whv does soothing syrup soothe, j , And why does a doll hahy doll? ] i .1 , Why does the mocking bifrd mock, \ . , And why does the sparrow spar? ] Why does the town clock clock | , And why do the "jar heads" jar? ] Why do the sea waves wave, 1 And roaring billows roar? ] Why do the cave men cave j And gossping women bore? i ] Why do the jockeys jock ] And why do drunkards drink? j Why do the knockers knock i And why do sinkers sink? , ' i . Why does the shimmy shake , And what makes a jazz band i f jazz? < Why do "taking ways" take, ] And why do dazzlers dazz? I ' 1 A minister in Miami, Fla., was i recently tarred and feathered for ( preaching race equality. That may , be as near as he'll ever come to hav- 1 ing wings. , i Next thing somebodyll be want- i ing to know who took the arm out j of armament. , r - ' f. ;v President Harding is said to be -An AniniATI Q/C KlO ^ V/UUU l/l 4 Uil |/UWiXV U^4U4Vi? MW iWW > greatest aid in the disarmament conference.' Public opinion (rarely is i still long enough to be counted. ?? . > . V * Lr > Oil is to go cm the tariff "free list/' Free and easy. Long Staple cotton is to go tariff ; free but short must- pay its way. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, so to speak. "Senate Farmers 'Block' Dry Crowd," says a headline. Now if . they'll let the axe descend swiftly and surely! * Lexington farmers fired the shot heard round the world. If they keep on firing there won't be a "shot" in >the world. SUNDAY SCHOOL TIME ^ JN SOUTH CAROLINA (By Jas. D. Grist.) York, S. C., July 19.?-It is county Sunday school contention time in South Carolina. Within the next six weeks no less than thirty Sunday , school conventions are to be held later on in the fail. Ten have already been held. Of the ten that were held practically every one was ; larger than last year's convention. That is there was a larger attend- i , ance, motre Sunday schools repre- f sented and more general interest l manifested. ' It is predicted that the same facts r will hoUd regarding the thirty to 'be r held in the next six weeks. More . Sunday school workeirs will attend. r More fried chickens will be neces. isary for the. : refreshment *of -the: visitors. But.-there are plenty of fried chickens ki South Carolina and the presidents of the respective county conventions who are even now working on plans for their re- j J * t J 4. 1 1 ? specxive meenngs nave auvpoeu as ? j slogan "the more the merrier." L j f REMOVE TWO BULLETS i Anderson, July 19.?In the post- j e mortem examination of T. F. Ramey j t who was shot n Wednesday, it was j found that the bullets were all from b a .32 caliber pistol. There was no r evidence of any buckshot wounds l as was first thought. Two balls were j - extracted from Barney's body and a j - "third was located by X-ray, but was ! not probed for. I SADDER AND OLDER tl ' AND GROWING WISER A v ti Abbeville Men Part With Cash In . I< Return For Promiae of Bottled & In Bond. x ^ V _____ o If a body meet a body w Who says he has ^ome rye If a body buy a bottle h Need the buyer cry? a After a day of pleasant anticipa- s tions yesterday there are a few of s< our citizens today who are somewhat wiser if thirstier men. And it was a all caused by Mr. J. 0. Reeves. Mr. ^ Reeves arrived in the city yesterday. a He approached a number- of those r who have not had anything for the 0 stomach's sake, except Savannah w River corn, for quite awhile. He said to them with his most bewitch- ^ ing smile that he understood they liked a little liquid refreshments every now and again, and they 'fessed ^ LL-i XI JIJ <<TXT_11 >? J__l J 1f_ "l V< tnaT. mty uiu. ryeu, uctiaieu jnr. Reeves, "what you want, I have ^ ^ot," or words to that general effect. a The said liquid refreshments, Mr. a; Reeves declared, had been forwarded SI to him in two cars and he was . to w meet the cars near Greenwood where w it was necessary that he make settlement, and, therefore, he asked his ^ purchasers to make settlement with trim in advance so that he could pay a for the refreshments, when the same w would be sent on direct from produc- ^ sr to consumer. This was promptly ^ lone. Some of the greediest of our ^ litizens, it is said, tried to take the v J whole shipment, and a few of them combined did in fact do so, so that r< Mr. Reeves did not have enough to n *o all the way round. The fact is that fie did not have any ^t all for those who do our busing on a credit bemuse he said his circulation was payable "strictly in advance." A lot of ^ the very best drinkers, so it is said, ^ offered to put up any kind of collat- y eral, or to have themselves certified s< by any bank in town, but Mr. Reeves S insisted that it was "cash in advance" f' so that they had to take a back seat. After Mr. Reeves had seen all the t< parties necessary to take up his ship- n ment he left via automobile to get 0 ! These Pi ! i 24 lbs. Best S 24 lbs. Plain! 3 bars Octagc 6 bars Octag 8 lbs. Bucket 8 lb. Bucket' II lb. Maxwell . - 25 lbs. Granu 2 lb. can Silv , 6 pkgs. Swift 8 lbs. Best G 18 lbs. Best R IT. V I South Main Si lie checks cashed in Greenwood. ? ls he drove out of town one or two ij rho thought perhaps they had not ;i aken on enough, called after him to ;i it them have another case of Haig ;j; i Haig, or Johnnie Jones or any- ?| bing else he had, and after looking Ij ver his hand Mr. Reeves discovered ;j hat he did have one or two cases left rhich he was saving for himself, and \\ t the urgent insistence of those who ad sickness in the family, he reluctntly parted with his own private ;i fcock just to show that he was not I elfish. m Well, everything looked "nicely" I s Corp. Kerr's late butler, | John I 1J x .'i. 1 i. i i . 1.1. . I vmre, wouia pui n, dui iaie in ine fternoon the shipments had not arived. They hadn't arrived at 9 'clock and though the purchasers 'aited faithfully the shipments were till undelivered at 12 o'clock, a^d iey are still undelivered. In the leantime Mr. Reeves "cashed in-' > nd went on to the next town. He gured, no doubt, that his purchasers ould be as well off without the rereshments as with them, especially 3 peaches and watermelons and pple cider are coming in, and beides he needed the money and there ere people elsewhere to whom he ished to minister. Mr. Reeves was certainly a nice joking gentleman, they do say, and e certainly could talk they say also, nd one gentleman who was a little riser than soipe of the others says >io rniilrf InoH mflrp Unnnr in ? * ? ?? - I. 'adillac than any man he ever saw efore anyway. His friends in Abbeille are hoping to meet him some ay they say but as for buying liquid c efreshmehts from him again,?well, < evermore. j ' c MacMillan Expedition Leaves. r r Booth Baye, Maine, July 19.?The J [acMillan Arctic expedition took ^ nal departure from American shores c esterday. The explorers auxiliary i :hooner Bowdoin, which came here fc aturday night after formal Godspeed rom Governor Baxter at Wiscasset, rent away at dawn, cheered by j )wnspeople. The Bowdoin will c take a short stop at Sydney, N. S., 2 n her way north. c Killlliill .? .*t / rices Spes i Plain Li , ? ' i f , \ ielf Rising Flour I?1 /\tm L' 4UUX * v >n Soap (large size) on Soap (small size) .... Snowdrift Lard "Kmeetit" Lard [ House Coffee ilated Sugar ...... erdale Peaches 's Washing Powder....... round .or Grain Coffee . ice L M< treet Ah J. L. PERRIN, JR. ; - '!' ' Public Stenographer ? . ! I' : Room 204 . I ; '!' I Municipal Building ;i; 1 !; ! jj; i ' <j 5 , 11 11 * ' Minis: r ' We take subscriptions to all Maga! ziries at publisher? iimee. THE ECHO "The ReaJly Musical - Spot in y Abbeville." ! . . - v COLORED CONVENTION HERE NEXT YEAR 1 ' * 1 . vi/j y Delegates who attended the state \ onvention of the colored Sunday School and Baptist Young People's t Jnion in Sumter Saturdav and Sun lay, have returned with the anlouncement that the convention will neet next year with Mt. Pleasant iaptist church here. They report a rery successful year. The city coun:il and chamber of commerce Bent nvitations welcoming the convention lere. ' . / Jfs Greensboro, N. C.?Mrs. Clarence L Johpson, of Raleigh, was elected ' lommissioner of public welfare of . tforth -Carolina by the state board f charities and public welfare. KflH^ tk | inmiorvA 1 LUIgltUgV i .. .... $1.10 '?H ;.. .... $1.05 j $1.05 1; t .......$1.00 K rv /k obc. $1.55 1 .J. 30c. 25c. . ft S'liOO 1 " v i:IrVj. :j1 / $1.00 irtinj Seville, S. C. I /