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THE ABBEVILLE ]
ABBEV1
THE PRESS AND
Published
MONDAY, WEDN]
- Entered as second-class matter
Terms of
;ijYear, $2.00; Six Months,
FRIDAY, AU
THEY BREAK THE LAW, I
The price at which the Boat
ias contracted to veil the bond* re
' m mmy be obtained on the bond i
* Whether this be true or not, it ci
fikatet at least eight thousand do
this school district. It Cannot 1
isjii i will make $10,000 or moi
Kfce force of our supposed ncteessitj
Kaatnse' we read the advertisemec
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af a municipality the sixe of "Abbe
ik'bn than par. The bid in this
ef tike nine of the bonds, the est
Rational Bank of Abbeville i<t whi
memej until it is needed in the er
If the deposit of the'money
' viOe is worth $2,000 then that m(
te (k school district, and it shonl
Sii mS the bond buyers, so that ii
.beads at ten per cent, and we are
taxpayers of this district the sum <
The proposed sale not only c
ef the taxpayers of this school dis
sf trustees should not have enter*
' Assembly under which these bondt
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HrVTIUC? Ul?l iUG wwuu? 1UU0V
mjer to circumvent this pro virion
Indi at par with an agreement 1
%. a commits ion of $8,000 (or the si
contributing $2,000 for the use ol
amy that this is a scheme for no o
sad we do not understand that tl
No such commissions have ever h
- rtilis and bonds in this State. A
ant, or of one per cent., is genei
Cor an agent to dispose of stocks
which we do not concede, that th<
A ysy a commission for the sale of
sej's fees for having the issue ap
fri commission is at so outrage
face; We deny that the Trusteei
amj one else, has the right to thro
As taxpayers of this school distri
v- Aat they shall not do so.
| Set it will be said that the I
Aare is no other way to secure tl
/ ?II. We deny that statement, ti
|isw to the boiad-buyers in order
mmat be paid by somebody and tl
need not fool themselves?they a
?it be paid from year to year I
flrnt and, therefore, the taxpayer
Ail proposed sale is consummated
If the bore statement is tru
fan tfie $10,000, if the taxpayers
\ weald it sot be a great dead bett<
dhe> school district rather than to
HMti or some other place?bon
Imp the price down in order thai
mi the public. Why was only one
fe consideration anyway? Does
elfc eatly bid to consider suggest
wag the bond buyers ? Are we
There are one hundred men
fljOOO each of these bonds. We I
people to subscribe to a Hoi
anast ef $50,000, and if the pe
pal* er patriotism left and think t
far tike education of their childrei
Ana bends at par and thus give
(Ka full duwIiku oriel
Am Ih* wfckk they must luittin i
gwreuu or persons who bar* a* iati
Ik will be said again, no douk
a kf As bonds, bat they kars i
hi wflliaf to admit tbat there is I
flam people could buy bonds at pn
Aacs. Bat tbe banks of tbis to
w?d sf Liberty Bonds during tb
* Aft tbat tune tbe money want out
famfit from it. Certainly tbe]
Boaibiin of bonds in tbe amount <
asftael district i. e. if they are as ]
e is tinle of necessity., Tbe trntl
hf tbe ?sdertsl?|.' - Ffr instance
bnk and borrows $1,000 with >
nawont and pays seven or eight p
harrowed need not be withdrawn,
Amid h# JanoiitMl with tbat bftnl
S the bank exact* of the borrow*
?dar customers, it should pay fou
mtamtery until it U withdrawn. It ii
3 be withdrawn for thirty days
l? withdrawn from the banks f6r
Alas that as much as $30,000 will
Tk banks are thus in position to I
lad issue to make the loans and a
?? the money from their vaults uo
mm dni helping the school distri
bcp the profits of the undgrtakini
The banks should know that
upon to pay something like
fafTrye that the assessed value of
(an of Abbeville is in the neighb
arty of the school district as it is
IHED 1844
PRESS AND BANNER
LLE, s. C.
BANNER COMPANY
Tri-Weekly f
3SDAY, and FRIDAY.
at post office in Abbeville, S. C.
Subscription:
$1.00; Three Months, 50 cents.
GUST 12, 1921
JUT?CALL IT COMMISSIONS.
d of Trustee* of thjs school district
centljr authorized is perhaps as much
market at this time for these bonds,
innot be denied that the price ' -conliars
of the money of the tax-payers
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?e denied, end win not do, mai oonu
redout of the .transaction through
^*We say; they will make this much
itp<.*f- the bond .buyers in the daily
-where they are offering the. bonds.
TiHe, which bonds.bear six per cent,
-case-is-in fact.only ninety.per cent.
:ra< two per cent, being paid by the*'
ich the Trustees agree to deposi.t the
ection of- the High School building,
with the National Bank of Abbe*
|ney' belongs to the Trustees and
d not be considered a part of the
i reality we are discounting our
throwing away of the money of the
of $10,000.
onfiscates $10,000' of- the money
trict, but it is illegal, and the Board
?d into it. The Act of the General
i are proposed to be issued specificbe
sold . at not less than par. In .
of the law a bid is tmade for these
that the Board of Trustees will pay
tie of bonds, the National Bank
f the money until it is needed. We /
ther purpose than to evade the law,
>e Trustees dispute the statement,
eretefore been charged for selling
l commission of one-half of one per
rally considered fcmple remuneration
or bonds. Therefore, conceding,
> Board of Trustees has a right to i
these bonds and to pay for attorproved,
we say again th*t the proous
a sum as to be illegal on its
i of Abbeville School District, or
w awav SID.OOO of (lie monAV of
ict when the law expressly declares
rligh School most be built and, that
ie money with which to do . the
?o. The $10,000 which must be
to induce them to buy the bonds
ie taxpayers in this school district
re the paymasters. That $10,000
>y the taxpayers of this school djis
are going to lose the money if
ie and the taxpayers' are going to
propose to give somebody $10,000,
?r for them to give the amount to
the bond buyers in . Atlanta, Cind
buyers whose interest it is to
: they may profiteer at the expense
bid before the Board of Trustees
the fact that the Board was left
consideration and manipulation
going to play their game?
in Abberille who are able to buy
tad no trouble last summer in getno
Building Corporation in the
ople of this town hare any civic vhey
really desema a school building
i, they should be willing t?> buy
the school district in Abbeville,
? of the bonds at par, the benefit of
>ather than give it to some other
irest in the welfare of the town.
>t, that the people would be willing
bo money with which to buy. We
ittle money in the country and that
?sent and pay for them without as
iwb helped the people buy $400,000
e war end financed the purchase,
of the town awl the banks got no
r should he able to finance the
of $100,000 for the benefit of the
patriotic in times of peace as they
k Si that the hanks will make tnoaey
i- If Mr? - A. goes to the Farmers
rhich to pay for bond* in that
>er cent, for the money, the money
and should not be -withdrawn, but
c and there left until it is needed.
sr the full rate of interest charged
r or five per cent for the use of the
i certain that no part of this money
p and no appreciable part of it will
sixty or ninety days. The architect
be unused by May 1st of next year,
finance loans to subscribers to the
t the same time not part with a cent
til money begins to come in and
ct make money for themselves and
g at home.
of this $10,000 loss they wfill be
! ten per cent, of the amount. We
the property of the banks in the
orhood of one-tenth of all the propassessed
for taxation. Therefore,
DISPUTE OVER WATCH
LEADS TO KILLING OF SON
Danville, Ga.f Aug. 1_.?The hom?
of A. G. Webb, farmer living about
threem iles from Danville, Wilkinson
county, Wednesday night was
the scene of a general shooting affray
growig out of a dispute over
an old watch and resulting in the
death of W. T. Webb, aged thirtyfive,
a son of A. G. Webb,, and the
wounding of another son.
W. T. Webb, the deceased, became
infuriated, it is said, and ran off to
the home Obha Butler, Ifong nejfr
by, arid asked that he lend him hi3
shotgun to kill a maddog. He secured
the gun and went back to his home
and began shooting into the crowd,
inflicting a light flesh wound on a
brother. His father, A. G. Webb,
then pulled a pistol, it is said, and
'Viin ' arm " fnriv?o +>hrnn<rVi Iim
breast, causing death almost instantly.
The family of Webbs moved to
this county from near Elberton, Ga.
some time this spring. The deceased
had been married twice, but was
separated from both wives, making
his home with his father.- .
NEGRO "SHOOTS' WIFE .
Greenwood, Aug. 11.?Declaring
that he shot his wife to keep her
from leaving home so frequently,
Colearian Patterson, a: 'negro, was
ldged in the Greenwood county jail
here yesterday. His wife, one of
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husband at Tranquil church, just
over the line in McCormick county
Monday night, is not expected to
live.
Patterson said he had no grudge
against his' wife except that she
would leave home occasionally. Monday
night he went by his house, ?ot
his shot gun, went to church and
shot his wife. Yesterday he was arrested
by accident at Bradley in this
county, merely because he looked
a suspicous character. Officers later
discovered that he was wanted for
shooting his wife.
Circulatory*
"Our mamma is very kind to us.
Every time we drink our cod-liver
oil without crying we get sixpence
each."
"And what do you do with the
money?" "* '
"Maimma buys more oil with it"
if the banks refute to carry out ll
not only be losing an opportunity I
$100,000 for an average of six mo:
ing to the bond buyers under the ;
the loss of $10,000.
Are the bankers in Abbeville *
us some lessons in economy and it
trustees are attempting to throw a
order tovpay for a school building
taught to shoot? If the hankers ii
Abbeville cannot sec the reasonabl
advisability of adopting this schen
school bonds of this school district,
the city and school district are fit
should be swindled and the banks i
ed to the end that they should pay
which we are about to sustain or ]
surrendered and every man should
It will be no excuse for not <
thai a contract hus already been si
t 1 ..... will k. willmW tai tail
. by the school truitees, and we havi
. contest. We bard no idee that the
other bonds in their possession, ac
willing now for the contest to reac
course, if the contract of sale as n
scheme could not be carried out a
except to thank the Trustees o9 the
and confiscating our property.
*r it should be said that one 1
to subscribe for the bonds at the
and undertake when the money fro
has been used up to sell the othei
half of the loss in any event.
We hare a good many people
ing any money except upon themae
for the amount of money which th
public welfare. But not much is aj
even though he may buy as much ?
bonds pay s^ per cent, as stated a
under the terms outlined at eight
ers are willing to do their part. 1
$5,000 of only $100 each year.
There are fifty men in Abbevi
tribute that and more to the school
are at least twenty men who have
irknnl kuildinir to he erected who I
for the full twenty year*. The qu
in order to give the schools the am
lutely necessary that they now ha
gram which has been outlined, or i
buyers in Atlanta, Toledo and perhi
We believe that the time will
when all of these bonds may be dis
the United States government, of tl
will not always go a-begging on the
every person who might subscribe
his money back and he will pay ou
ence in interest which will be a neg
than he would pay in the way of I
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to scheme here proposed they will
bo make three or four per cent, on
nths, but they will be actually pay*
proposed contract ten per cent of
ilive? Are they in position to (ire
i saving and in financing while the
way the money of the taxpayers in
where the young idea may be
a Abbeville and the taxpayers in
leness and practicability and the
le of financing the sale of the
then we say that the taxpayers of
t subjects to be swindled, and
should hare their assessments rais
as much as possible of the loss
perhaps their charters should be
carry his money in his pockets.
?rrying out this proposed scheme,
ignod. Some citizens of the town,
t the legality of the contract made
? no doubt as to the result of the
bond buyers, who perhaps hare
quired in like manner, would be
Ji the court proceeding stage. Of
Bade should be held legal, the
nd we would have nothing left ua
school district for evading the law
lundred men are not willing now
price, then we might secure fifty,
m the sale of one-half the bonds %
r half. We wquld thus sare one%
in Abbeville who object to spendItos.
They are not remarkable
ey are willing to contribute to the
iked in this case of any individual,
is $5,000 worth of the bonds. The
ind money may bo borrowed now
per cent., granting that the bank[here
is a loss on a purchase of
ill* wfin ire Amolv able to con
Is of the City each year. There
children to be educated in the
ire amply able to lose $100 a year
estion is, are they willing to do it
iount of jnoney which it is ab*o'??
in order to complete the pro- ;
do they prefer to assist the bond ,
ftps one bank in Abbeville?
come within two or three years
posed of at par. The securities of
be States and of the municipalities
market. . When that time comes
to the present bond issue will get t
it in the meantime only the differ;ligible
amount?perhaps much less
taxes towards retiring the $10,000
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dvertised h
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low which we are now about to st
What do the taxpayers say?
nothing most' likely.
Well, then, what will the cour
LEBANON CHURCH CELEBRATES
CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY
Enjoyable Day Spent at Andenl
Chapel by Presbyterian*?Good
Addresses Heard.
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The Presbyterians had a fine daj
Wednesday, 10th inst, at Lebanot
Church, the occasion being the celebration
of their first Centennial
(may they have many more.) Thinking
possibly it would not be conven
ient to attend the next one, I took
advantage of the old adage, "A bir<3
in the hand is the noblest work ol
God," and fell in line with the moving
crowd and well was I repaid foi
the venture. The day will ever t>
a green spot in memory.
The first item on the program was
a sermon by Rev. Jas. L. Martin, D.
D., almost a centenarian himself in
Presbyterianism, though he does not
look it by odds; and a most able sermon
it was telling how as Calvinisfe
and Presbyterians we stand for the
j sovereignty of God, and the infallibility
of the Scriptures. The other
part of his theme was the Huguenots
and Scotch-Irish who for conscience
ake had forsakes 'their homes in the
old world and had settled this section
of the new World. *he present
generation and congregation he said
were fine witnesses of what their fathers
were. Recess was taken at 1
o'clock.
A band of children, under 12 years
of age, placed flowers on the graves
of Mr. and Mrs. Mullins, ' the old
pioneers who gave the ground on
which the church is built.?Then dinner
as only Lebanonites and other of
can or will say is, it was such a dinner
as only Lebonites and other of
their kind, who live in the country,
occasionally get up to wane us mku
people who are fortunate enough to
be around wish that we lived in the
country.
After dinner Elder Jas. S. Gibert,
the senior elder and whose father
was pastor of Lebanon for 45 years,
read a very interesting histiry of
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What do the banks say? Well, .
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*ts say?
> the church during its 100 years of
r life. Dr. J. P. Robertson of Galveston,
Texas, who is visiting the Abbeville
t cnurcn, gave a snori; ana interesting
talk. The exercises were interspersed
with singing and music. Thil was
a most enjoyable part of the pro- >
r gram. The choir is made up largely
t of Giberts and Evans who ar<? natur
al born singers, and what thpy can't
, do to a hymn had better be left un
sung. The singing was really an in- / >
* spiration, containing worship as well
> as music. r
I May Old Lebanon and its people
live to celebrate its millennium if the
Lord so will.
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11 sryDAMAGES
FOR FOOT P
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Anderson Bof G?U V?4(t la
AsWrille
i Anderson, Aug. 11.?Oharlie,
i Aiken, son of M. S. Aiken, & memfber
' of the city police force -was awarded xfi
' a consent verdict for $7,500 for the n
i loss of one of his legs last October t H
> while employed with the Buquo lime 3S
i works, near Asheville. The case was - Hj
' tried in the United States court in $9
; Asheville with Judge O. T. Webb
presiding. Suit was for $50,000, en- 39
tered by Campbell Miller of this EH
city. The young boy was in Asheville
attending school and worked Kffl
at the lime works on Saturday. A gRj
large boulder fell on young Aiken, BBI
crushing his foot and causing it to ggj
be amputated. SB
BOBBED HAIR C1RLS ^jH
MUST WEAR NETS ?
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Chicago, Aug. 10.?Orders were jffH
posted by Marshall Field and Com- mm
pany, one of Chicago's largest de_
partment stores, .today, that girl IBQ
clerks with bobbed hair must wear
hair nets until their tresses grow * fl9
again. One clerk was dismissed for
I refusing to obey the rule. % jffH
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