University of South Carolina Libraries
Established 1844, J THE PRESS AND BANNER , ' ABBEVILLE, S. C. 1 The Press and Banner Company v | Published Tri-Weekly . j ' Monday, Wednesday and Friday, i T'* L; ? Entered as second-class matter at foot office in Abbeville, S. C. I _ , ' i j Tmu of S?b*criptIoBt } One Year $2.01. : Cix months fl.OQ i Three months .5Q , Foreign Advertisng Representative ' AkERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 I -14- ? 1 ? Monday, august 29,19.21 " . w '.' ' * *rf? ?: 1 ^ PICKING COTTON. 1 ;i / t The time for gathering cotton has i r A arrived. There will not be so much i to pick, we fear, and there is no rea- * W: 1 " / son why what is made should not be &. gathered as" fast as it is open and y ready for picking. There is much to j be gained by doing this. People who allowed their cotton to be damaged , last year by remaining in the field !for weeks have, we hope, learned the 1 lesson thai it is as important to pick ^ cotton at, the right time as it is to { pick it at all. In no other way may j good samples be secured when the ' cotton is ginqed. Good cotton has J aways brought a higher price in pro- * * portion than damaged cotton, arid f the difference the last few years Jn j the pride of the different grades Has ] grown larger. 1 There is another thing which it * were weti 10 learn,,ana mat is umc ^ the cotton in the bolls which have . \ , been punctured by the boll weevil is. ^ * i stained, at least the lock punctured is ^ stained and most often badly damaged. It is important in picking the . t cotton not to gather this damaged lock. It but tends to make the whole m/ bale of a lower grade than otherwise (would be the case and causes the ^ - plartter to lose to the extent that the grade is loured. Wherever there is ^ a damaged lock of cotton in a boll, it * were ^rell to leave it in. picking. This 1 will require care oil the part of the j pickers, but the price which will be j obtained and the advantage to be ( gained by being careful will more ^ titan pay for the necessary care and' ^ pri*. _ - ( WILL COTTON GO HIGHER? ? ' I 1 i rT* W t J '4..^ * ? j|: }'. yiThen cotton is going up everyt; body thinks it will continue to go up. It is generally said that there is 1 nothing to keep it down- and nothing to keep it from going much higher. When the price starts downward i everybody has his reason for saying c that the whole bottom is going to i drop out, the whole world* being al- 1 [ready flooded with cotton, acid no- 1 body wants any more at any price. < , But it seems to the casual observ- i ef that there is a chance that the,a / I ? ? price of cotton this year must con- 1 | tinue to be at a high figure, proba- 1 bly at a higher figure than it is now i fe; v bringing. We say this for th^ reason . that the carry-over from last year < ^ . * was not so large as was expected. (I JTuch of the cotton which was car- ] ried over was of low grades and is ] ; ' not so much in demand. The crop the' < 't. present year, if the crop in this coun- i t . ty is a fair index as to size of the1 >? crop will not fee more than 7,-J 000,000 bales. We make that estimate on the reported reduction in acreage with a proper reduction for boll weevil damage and poor crops1 /lna to Imnarfonf fprfiliTdtion. T"f thft carry-over and the new crop together do not amoant to more than 15,000,-' 000 to. 15,500,000 bales, and if it is usual to carry over from one year to another about 3,000,000 bales, then the cotton which will be for sale wjll not amount to more than 12,000,000 bales, or 500,000 more than that tigure. Europe wants cotton now and has been wanting it for several months. The only reason why a great deal- of cotton has not heretofore b(-en shipped abroad is that there has been no means to finance the crop. This seems to b^at least in part remedied, and before the crop is marketed a way will probably be found for the European buyers to obtain what they want. If so the demand will be Crestly increased, and cotton will not go begging as it did last year. "The wish is father to the thought," of J course, but that is the way it looks to us. The price should be good and should get better as the season advances and people begin to know that there will be no more cotton for sale than the world is going to buy. i THEY ALL KNEW IT. i . ' \ We .have never known as many men who narrowly missed getting rifeh by buying cotton. They just put the matter off a few days too long. "If" seems to have been the stumbling block of most of them. If Jim aad had the money, or hadn't gone Sshing; or if John had followed his jwn judgment instead of listening to Bill; if Bill had bought the day he started to buy and hadn't stayed at lome on account of the rain; or if a tew <jther things hadn't happened we would, have had about nineteen to ifty young millionaires around Ab jeville by this time with more to folow. "If" has prevented a good many >eople from being millionaires as yell as preventing them from being jood. ? . \ 'a * No Loafer Respect Horse Shoe. [ndex-Journal. The horse shoe like the, house, is osing ks charm. Even 4ive horse lihoe is no longer a talisman to chersh potent as a fb ringer of good luck. [*he age of rubber casings is playing Havoc with the superstitions of yesterday. As evidence that the horse Owe is no longer a talisman to cherii, a few afternoons ago, two negro >oys, crossing the tracks toward [font's Book Store, stumbled across i horse shoe. One of them carelessy picked it up and gave it a disdain fal toss up the track. A passer aj lew feet away could plainly see that t had three rafils in it. Apparently degeneracy of the age has underlined its kiperstitions.- Time was vhien a horse dhoe with three nails nj $ woiild have been carefully earned home and hung on some nearby lail and like Shakespeare's bones, asurse would have fallen upon him *fco moved it. The scarcity of horse shoes may je:tfae reason for the loss of their power. Since there are too few to jo around, those who have ruo talisnaii discredit the old superstition md refuse to believe it. The pyifjple of when in doubt, blame it on he automobile, works admirably in Aids instance, those Who still cling to the ancient belief aver. One is ihnost prepared for the passing of ihe. graveyard ralbbit foot. SENATOR ALEXANDER, DEAD rlad Been III for Many Month* With 1 Sleeping1 Sickness Pickens, Aug. 27.?Frank E. Alexinder, State senator from Pickens :ounty since 1918 and prominent eal estate man, of this city, was 'ound dead in his bed at Whitewater inn at Jocassee, Oconee county, to lay at noon. His death was due to latural causes. For many months he vas ill, his disease having been prolounced sleeping sickness. He went ;o Jocassee yesterday for a short rest, The news of Senator Alexander's ieath has caused profound sorrow throughout this city and county, for be was very popular with the people. He had a jovial kindly nature which endeared him to a great circle of friends. He is survived by his wife, who before her marriage was Miss Ada Craig, and by two children by his first wife, who was Miss Sallie Donald of Due West. She <^ied in 1911. Senator Alexander was a real estate dealer-and farmer. He was born in Pickens on Feb. 20, 1869. He w^s educated in the schools of the county. In 1918 he was elected to the State J Senate from Pickens county and was serving his first term, which would) have ended Nov. 5, 1922. He was one ( of the best known and best liked of | the Senate and his witty, pithy say ings in debate were widely circulated. He was chairman of the Senate Committee on the' Penitentiary and was a member of the Committee on Banking and Insurance, Incorporations, Natural Resources, Penal and Charitable Institutions and Public Buildings. The Royal Ontario Museum at Toronto has received a Chinese bronze bell that weighs 7500 pounds and dates from about 1450 A. D. HOLD INQUEST SUNDAY ! - Will Continue Probe of Brown Kill i ing in Columbi * . The State. Much interest centers in the ap proaching session of the coroner': liny charcred with investigating th< death of Policeman Brown. Corone] Scott has arranged for a hearing to morrow night- at 8 o'clock at thf court house and the details of th< shooting will be described by eye witnesses. City, county and state of ficers are conducting a probe anc the jury will be given all information on hand. Roy Lindler, onlj eyewitness to the killing:. is being held at the city prison. Several problems confront the detectives working on the case an<] the situation is somewhat complex ^ 0 * ~ roiiceman Drown was suut ucai w corner of Park and First streets ir Camp Fornance Wednesday morning August 17. The officer fell in a field where weeds are high at various points and his pistol caliber 38 showed five empty chambers. On the following day three 45 caliber shells were picked up near the scene of the shooting. The cap on one shell showed Tib signs of having been fired, but the powder and bullet had beer removed. Another shell showed a slight indentation near the center of xi j cVvoii tne cap auu tuc cap via buc wu*u showed a deeper dent. A lavalier pendant was picked up near the poinl where the policeman was shot to death. Three red beads with gold 01 imitation gold attachments are linked together. Roy Linder, the only eyewitness to the killing of Policeman Brown, says the officer was shot and killed by a negro and that the murderer fired on *him after fie ran forward and grabbed him by the wrist. He said the negro ran in the direction of the Heise home. l" Footprints made by a man who was seen to run pass the home of Ben FToico cViArtlir nff_pr the shots were fired have been closely examined and measured by officers. One' puzzling point to be considered by the coroner's jury is the question, 'Did Policeman Brown meel death with his own pistol or did the officer fire his gun after his assailant had sent the death dealing bujlet into his body?" Men and women living in the neighborhood oi the killing say five shots were fired The policeman's revolver fired 38 cal Lber cartridges and five chambers were empty. Three shells of largei caliber have been picked up anc are in the coroner's possession. The shirt worn by the officer at th? time of the shooting shows no sign: of powder burns which indicates thai the person who used the gun wpj not stationed immediately next to th< policeman when the pistol fired. Ben Heise lives less than twc blocks from the scene of the shoot ing and he and other occupants ol the home say it was three or mort minutes after the firing ceased before the form of a man passed th&r house on a slow run. Mr. Heise says he is satisfied the man who ran by his UntMn tttoc a narrrn A Inner nnH fniif. UVJIlt >TWO M 1IV61VI *v?.0 -- ?... leas hunt followed the announcement that a negro had run by th's house and that a horfce had beer stolen near the pliant'of the 'Columbh Clay company. Heavily armed posses searched for several days, following each clue given by different persons This negro, however, is still at lai^e Rewards aggregating $500 are of fered for the capture of the persor who killed the officer. Of thii amount $200 will be given for infor mation leading to the conviction ol the person who fired the fatal shot. Chief Strickland has received sev eral anonymous, letters this week an< the latest reached headquarters yes mnrnmc The writer offers t< deliver the- "woman" who shot an< 'tilled the officer for "locking her ii jail." The chief is asked' to plac< $100 under crossties at the asylun switch and the prisoner will be tume< over to the police. The officer wa killed by a woman dressed in men': clothing, according to the "specia detective," who declares that he ha nor+tf "IrkMro/l nr? i r\ n m 111 I H1C VJ ?vv.mvM -r ? stable." ' Marion Kramer,, city jailer, re. ceived his second warning yesterday The writer says "he read in the pa. per where the officer said he was no disturbed over the reception of th< first threat, and he hastened to le him know that he was going to kil him." Wie note was on a small pieci of paper and was typewritten. I was apparently the work of som Export trade showing PICK UP FIGURES REVEAL New York, Aug. 27.?America's foreign trade is reviving. Exports from the United States hit the bottom of depression in April. 3 Since then, they have been climbing i ?slowly but surely. ' The gain is in physical volume? more bushels of wheat, more tons of ! machinery, etc. / | i Total money value of exports con tinues declining, because prices have not stopped falling. I But export tonnage began to in-1 PTPARP ^!n Mav. So sav the expert, r including Frederick Todd, secretary r of the Frst Federal Foreign Banking Association, 40 Wall Street. ' Exports of agricultural products] [ during July showed big gains over , July,, 1920. Here are some of them: i ^ July '21 July '20 i Cotton, bales ? 527,000 211,000 r Corn, bu 14,972,000 1,161,000 I Cottonseed oil lb 7,289,000 3,081,000 i Wheat, bu. __ 24,790,000 23,838,000 I August is expected to show furth s er increase in export volume, i Germany daily is becoming a bets ter customer. She is'steadily increas1 ing her purchases of American-made i goods. y ' But Europe as a whole is taking 1 less than half of all American ex: ports, for the first time in history. "The key to the whole situation," { as one big exporter puts it, "is that : the future of our foreign trade is not 1 in Europe. Already we have as big, ' a. market in China, South America | ^ and other parts of the world as we; have, in Europe. This means that a") boom in oi*r foreign trade is not as: i dependent on European recovery as r ifaost exporters thought a year Or two I sum. i "A lot of folks have been sitting ' back, saying that business can't re! vive until foreign trade picks up: Well, it's on the increase now. Of > course, prices are down and exports i are bringing us less money. But that's ! offset by the fact that the exporter 1 can buy more with his dollar than he could when prices were high and foreign trade was enormous on pa! per." 1 SAYS PRANCE DEPENDS ON U. S. FRIENDSHIP " . Parte, Aug. 27.?Regret^ that Am" erica failed to ratify the defense pact ' between the United States, Great Britain and'France which was ar5 ranged here in 1919 by President : Wilson and Premiers CJemenceau and ' Lloyd George, tinged Parisian editorial comment on the signing of the 5 German-American peace treaty at 4 Berlin yesterday. "We understand that American in* terests are so remote from ours," said "the Rhode Paris, and that the attitude of the United States government in making a separate peace is I justifiable. We count more upon the friendship between the two republics than on treaties and protocols for the assurance of harmony between them. ' This friendship grows stronger daily, and we must understand that J the treaty with Germany does not mar the close relations between " France and the United States. 9 I i GOVERNMENT TO DISPOSE OP 3 $1,000,000 GOOD LIQUOR t ___ Washington, Aug. 27.?Immediate disposition of liquors seized under . the national prohibition act on which j storage charges are accruing was or3 dered today Iby Prohibition Commis. sioner Payne. f Instructions were rsent to federal prohibition directors and internal re. venue collectors to request the UnitII ed States attorneys in their district to petition the court for disposition j orders for all seized liquors, autoj mobiles, boats or other vehicles, tak1 en. by the government for violations a of the prohibition laws. 1 Liquor such as moonshine, adulter\ ated and^low proof liquor, having no s commercial value, should be destroy3 ed, Mr. Haynes said, while the high1 er proof and unadulteraible liquors s, should be diverted to commercial but e non-ibeverage uses. In complete reports from the various districts, Mr. Haynfes said, es. timated the total value of good liquors held by the government at t about $1,000,000. s "~ t white person who has considerable 1 time to waste on foolish ideas and e, notions, according to the opinion of t1 persons who have read the second e warning. WOMAN FIGHTS THIEF \ With Child In Anna She Ccsiei Man's Arrest. New York, Aug. 27.?With an infant in her arms, Mrs. Ethel Skacter 32, of No. 64 Rush street, Brooklyn, battled with an intruder she found in her home and finally cause his arrest. Mrs. Schacter heard a noise in , the dining room. Entering she found a young man opening drawers in a 'bureau. She demanded: "What are you doing here?" Mumbling something about' "looking for a family named Greeniberg," the man started for the door and 1 down the stairs. Then Mrs. Schacter placed her (ba/by on the floor, seized the man with both hands and yelled for the police. Patrolman Valentine took the prisoner to the Clymer street 1 station. / The prisoner said he was Charles Cotler, 18, of No. 156 Monroe st., Manhattan. In his pockets he had a bracelet, a wrist watch, two gold watches, two fountain pens and busi* ness cards of Jacolb Levine. While Cotler was being searched Dr. Solomon J. Levine of No. 461 Bedford avenue telephoned the police station that he had been robbed. ' He was told to cotae around. He did so and identified one of the watches \ and a fountain pen as his property. The cards were his brother's. Apurse containing money, which Mrs. I O nl<n n.jj mn n mm Vl.WAni* o^uaccci oaxu was uu u-cjl iviucauy could not be found in Cotler. He was held in $3000 in the Bridge Plaza Court. * . BODY OF MANNING COMES * 1 Remains of Son of Ex-Governor To 1 Rett At Arlincton Washington, Aug. 27?Preliminary funeral services will be held at Hoi boken pier, New York, Sunday afterInoon over the body of the late Maj. ' William Sinkler fanning, which ar- j rived August 25. The services there , will be attended by the entire staff ( of the New York Times, the deceased having been a member of the Washington staff of The Times. The body will reach Washington about September 2, soon after which the funeral will take place at the beauti- . ful Arlington cemetery, near Wash-J inorfrtn -with fnll Tnilitflrv honors. I The date has not yet been fixed, and will not be announced until the war* department communicates with former Gov. R. I. Manning and the other members of the family as to a time that is convenient for them to come to Washington to attend. The American Legion post of the National Press club today took steps toward having the entire member- ( ship Attend the funeral and to pay : the last mark of respect to one of ; their fallen comrades. Major Manning was one of the most popular young men in the press gallery. He ] enteted the service immediately after ] the United States joined the allies , in the world conflict and rose to ; At 1. - * TT _ 1J1UJ tne ran* ox major, nc was iuiicu , five days before the armistice in the i Meuse-^rgonne when leading his ( men in a charge. s ? As a member of the Charleston ( Light Dragoons, Major Manning saw .military service on .the Mexican border in 1916-1917. Soon after the ( national guard was called to arms he came to Columbia from Wash- , ington and enlisted as a private. He entered the first training camp for officers at Fort Meyer in the spring of 1917 and about three months later was graduated with the rank of captain and afterwards was promoted to rank of major. The body arrived along with the remains of some 3,000 other heroes, who died in France.?The State. JOHNSON PARALYZED " ?_ xj :??:? i^l | ueorgia negro i noiuiuanun iu May Be Withdrawn Savannah, Ga., Aug. 27.?A special to the Savannah Press from Washington says Henry Lincoln Johnson, Republ:can national committeeman , from Georgia, has suffered a stroke of paralysis and is in a serious condition. His entire left side is said to be paralyzed. It is understood because | UI IU5 UUI1UJHUII X ICOIUCUU iiaiuuig may withdraw his nomination as recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia. The average native woman of Tahiti is dressed in a mother hubbard. ? 'A l Mother's Healing Salve An excellent remedy for old sores, cuts, bruises, burns* and especially good , for Fall sores on children. Ke^p a box on hand for emergencies* .. / 25 Cents a Box. The McMurray Drug Co. NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF AP-. PLICATION FOR DISCHARGE la The District Court of the United States, For the Western District . of South Carolina. In the Matter of J. H. Finley, Abbe- ville, S. C., Bankrupt. No. B-259 In Bankruptcy. To the Creditors of the above named Bankrupt: Take notice that on Aug. 24, 1921, the above k-:.:cu bankrupt filed his petition in raid Court praying that lie may be decreed by the Court to, , have a full discharge from all debtsprovable against his estate, except 3uch debts as are excepted by law from such discharge, and a hearing, vas thereupon ordered and will be had upon said petition on September 26, 1921 before, said Court, at Greenville, in said District, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, at which time and place all known creditors and other persons in interest mayappear and show cause, if any they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. '< D. C. DURHAM, ClerkDated at Greenville, S. C. , Aug. 26, 1921. SHERIFF'S SALE UNDER EXE. CUTION ' Take Notiee: That the undersigned as Sheriff of Abbeville County, S. C., will sell at public auction, at Abbeville Court House, Abbeville County, South Carolina, on salesday in September 1921 during the legal hours of sale, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me under and by a certain execution issued to me by the Clerk of- the Court for Abbeville County, South Carolina, in the case of Alvin Ellis, and Frank H. Leslie, trading under the .firm name of Ellis-Leslie Company, versus, Mike Kustas, the following dcs:ribed property, to wit: All those certain three lots of land, situate, lying and being in the City, of Abbeville, County of Abbeville, State of South Carolina, known as lots one, two and three of the Graves property, having a frontage on Ferry Street of seventy-five feet, and being bounded by said street, by Rosenberg property, and by Graves property. Also, all that lot or parcel of land, n'iMnfA OM/J in fVl A Olfv aiuuabU) Ajrjug aim uvmg m v**v of Abbeville, in the County and State aforesaid, facing one hundred and fifty three feet on Orange street, and running back a depth of one hundred and fifty feet, and being bounded by Haigler Street, Orange Street and by Klugh property. Also, all that lot or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the town of Calhoun Falls, in the County of Abbeville, in the State of South Carolina, fronting on Seneca Street, and bounded by said Street; by road leading to Hester's Station, by lot of J. D. Fulp and R. S. Link, and by lot of J. R. Burriss and known as tKe Hotel property. { Said property is levied on and is<' to be sold as the property of Mik^Cuetas, to satisfy the aforesaid execution. TERMS OF SALE: CASH. Pur chaser to pay for papers an/ stamp?. F. B. McLANlpf L. S. J Aug. 16, '21 3t. Sheriff. ?:?t?Natives of the Philippines make ubstantial bridges of bamboo. Ljr