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r.iurj rvufl Established 1844. THE PRESS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-class matter a post office in Abbeville, S. C. Term* of Subscription: One Year $2.01 Si* Months $1.0( Three Months .5( Foreign Advertising Represe"tativ< AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1922 ABOUT TRANSPORTATION. Columbia has a street car strike the strike was brought about by the discharge of a number of men form erly employees. Because the com pany refused to reinstate these men other employees struck. But back oi it all is the alleged fact, and we have no doubt tT^e fact exists, /that the revenue of the street c^i; ^ompany in Columbia is insufficient to ,keep the cars running. That complaint is made not only in Columbia Put in other cities. In some places the fare <has b?en increased in order that street car companies might make ends meet, ' 4 * * * * i-l.!- J but it is stated tnat even mis uues not relieve the situation. The automobile has played the larger part in the conditions com plained of. Each year more and more people go and return to their places of business in their own motor cars rather than on the street cars. Not withstanding the fact that the street cars give regular and adequate ser vice, this continues to be the case. Then too a great deal of the transfer " business in the cities is done by au tomobile carriers which helps to re duce the number of patrons of the street railway companies. These facts have brought about a situation whicl: causes grave concern. What is to be come of tke street railways? Are they *{11 to operate, or will they give place entirely to other means oi transportation? We say that'these are \ serious questions in places like Col umbia where many people own sub urban property, and where the value of that property is dependent largelj on an adequate means of transporta tion to and from the city. If these people do not own cars and are nol able to own them, what is to become of their property? How are they tc occupy it and enjoy it when it i; miles away from theii^ places of worP and when they have no cheap way oi reaching their places of work? Tkat is a problem for the cities with which we are only" indirectly in terested at this time. But the same question is brought home to us wit? regard to the railroads. The state ment is made already that the trans porfatidtt passengers and freighl by motor vehicles fo? SflSft hauls has greatly reduced the income of railroads on this class of business More and more as the highways art improved and as the motor vehicle: ire perfected and mada^tc^.be oper ated cheaply will people" have resorl to them rather than to tH? tailroads There is reason why 40b ififtilroad: should sufFer more on this accoun than the street cars. In the firs place, it is stated that for shor hauls freight may be delivered a cheaply by truck as by railroad. Ii the next place the freight may be de livered at any time, and in so mucl shorter time than the railroads wil deliver the same kind of shipments that people will not longer patronize thp old carriers. Added to this is th ir.ccnvcnience of reloading and un loading in making shipments by rail road with a consequent greater lia bility from breakage and other dam ^ge which but adds to the cost o transportation by railroadsT If these conditions continue an< the railroads are not able to compet with trucks on these short hauls, th reve*ues of the railroads will be cu and as the hauls by truck and moto vehicle become longer, the revenue will lie cut still' more and more unt in tiaie it will be a question whethe *iie railroads may be made to pa: just as it is now a serious questio whether the street cars in small citie may be made to produce enough re> enue U keep thero running. inese are mauers wnicn tne pe< pie must be interested in. They ar syi#us matters for our consider* tion. They are serious especially fc those people who have invested the; money in transportation companies, ,and not less serious to that great army of working men who obtain . their incomes from the transporta tion companies. It is certain that if ithe latter are to be kept running i they must first be made productive and maintained so as to be produc tive, and to that end the railroad owner and the railroad operative should bend their efforts. Instead of being at each others throats , just now, it would be better if they were )'joining efforts to save themselves )' from inevitable lo?s and embarrass ) ment. Unless by joining their efforts {they are able to demonstrate'- that J [railroads are still the cheapest and I the safest way of transporting goods and passengers from one point to another, they will be ^called on to Fi P. ca d< 1< th th ec ch to th R show cause why such means of trans portat'on should not go into the dis card. THREE FAILURES IN WALL STREET Total of Concerns Going to Wall Since November Now Num ber Thirty th bv y< ec w; tr ea OC fr fo ab en pa na 12 iNew York, Fefo. 26.?Today ibroughi. the failures of three more Wall street brokerage houses with combined liabilities estimated at $120,000 and combined assets at $33,000. Concerns which have gone to the j 19 wall since last November now total dr ! 30. Total liabilities were estimated at $21,788,000 and assets at $10, 548,000. v T** ifVkA cfmnf flio nnininn was fiW la' Xll bUW OWJL vvw V1IV .? ? vanced that many houses of per fectly reputable character had gone to smash because of the caution P? many investors assumed with the! se district attorney's inquiry into} bucket shops. |in The concerns against which in- j ^ j voluntary bankruptcy^ petitions I ! were filed today, and their estimat-1 ! j I -fU , i ed resources were: ^ 'j A. R. Smith and Co.,'' liabilities:^ j $75,000; assets, $25,000. J Rietz and Sullivan, liabilities, ,'$25,000; assets, $3,000. >| Heatley, Robles and Smith, Inc., ,! liabilities, $20,000; assets, $5,000. TURNER TO SERVE TERM IN ATLANTA Savanannah, Ga., Feb. 24.?Oc casioned by circumstances and the 1 advice of the district attorney, Ros ' coe Turner, aviator, indicted by the J | U1UI/CU Utatcj ^lauu JU1JT JLVX . spiracy and having in his posses Jsion stolen x government property,! ?1 brought hero for trial, entered a1 plea of guilty before Judge Evans] I this afternoon and was fined ' $50 5 and^ sentenced to imprisonment in ithe federal penitentiary at Atlanta ' j for a year and a day. After his sen tence Turner said: ;.iN oc or "I'm going to serve it like a man. *9 I am innocent, but I belie-ve I fcookj^ the best way out. And after I leave iea the iron doors of the pen -behind ;ne j I'm going in again for exhibition i flying. I'm ging to commercialize flying." Turner was jointly indicted with J j?a ?J Harry Kunser, wno nas Deen arresv- - ! ed in Fort Wayne, Ind., for buying 5! a stolen plane and will be brought ?* 11 to Savannah within the next few 11 days. His trial had been set for next J Wednesday but the district attor j ney is doubtful whether he will be I here by that time. PASTOR ACCEPTS CALL TO COLUMBIA CHURCH t Columbia, Feb. 2(1.?Rev. R. A. e Lapsley, of Tarboro, N. C.f has ac _ | cepted the call to the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church of Colum _1 bia, a church that has been without Ma pastor for a year since Rev. A. W. ^! Blackwood left last March. Mr. Laps-* I ley was called to the Presbyterian f | church of Greenwood and also to a | I church in Roanoke, Va., but he hasi'r e I. i I ttoarrl tha f'nlnmhm mil- Hf? will take I 6 1 i I charge of the church here some time ] *! during the spring, thre date to bej*r ^ f fivofl lnt^r tfixed later. !S .J il,V ?SPECIAL? V f'\\ OPERA HOUSE V n jv FRIDAY and SATURDAY V JSjV "DON'T TELL EVERY- V V THING" V V With Wallace Reid, Gloria V )-,V Swanson and Elliott Dexter. V e V Added?Snooky Comedy. V i- "FOUR TIMES FOILED" V ?r V 15 Cents 35 Cents v ir ARMER EARNINGS IN 1920 LOWEST SINCE 1911 rovided Hi* Income is Bated Oi Same Buying Power As in 1913. New York, Feb. 24.?The Ameri in farmer, who rose to' unprece ?'nted heights of prosperity ii )18 and 1919, earned less in 192' an he^has earned in any year o ie last ten, if his income is reckon I in dollars having the same pui lasing power as in 1913, according > estimates made public "today b ie National Bureau of Economi esearch. Reckoned in actual dollars paii i him in 1920, the farmers' incom i shown by the report, was les an in the three previous years it was greater than in the sevei jars from 1910 to 1916 inclusive. The figures, taken from a detail I report of an exhaustive, nation ide survey, showed that the coun y's 6,450,000 farmers, in 1920 xned approximately $7,200,000, >0?a drop of $3,650,000,001 om their income for the year be re. The farmers, who represen iout 46 percent of the gainfully iployed, have ^received during th< st decade a share in the tota itional income varying betweei !.3 percent, in 1911 and 17.4 ii 17 and 1918, until__1920, when i opped vto 10.9 percent. The final figures for the total in me in 1920 can only be approxi ated, owing to the delay in pub ,hing the income tax returns. "When these figures are trails ted into terms of the purchasinj >wer of 1913 dollars, it is agaii en that the purchasing power o e farmers was at. its lowest ebl 192"0," says"the report. Here an e comparative figures in bil'.ion dollars. (-Farmers' Income in dollars a e uniform; purchasing power o 13.) 1910 $4,010,000,001 1911 3,380,000,00! 1912 4,040,000,001 1913 i 4,200,000,001 1914 _J_ 4,170,000,001 1915 ? 4,590,000,001 1916 5,100,000,00 1917 6,450,000,00 1918 6,500,00,0 1919 6,100,000,00 1920 3,500,000,00 fotice of Democrats Primary Election. .r Mayor and Four Aldermen i: the City of Abbeville, South Carolina. Notice is hereby given that a Dem ratic Primary Election will be hel< i Tuesday the 21st day of March 22, for the purpose of choosing ; ayor and four Aldermen, one fror ch ward, as the Democratic nomi es to be voted for at the electioi be held the second Tuesday ii pril, 1922. Pledges must be filed and fee id to the City Clerk on or befor o'clock p. m., March 17, 1922. The following will act as manager the election: , At the Shops: J. L. Clark, L. "W msby and W. F. Perrin. At the Cotton Mill: A. H. Barnetl . S. Martin and R. W. Smith. At the City Hall: T. C. Seal, C . Botts and W. C. Sherard. If a second primary is necessar me will be held Tuesday, Marc J, 1922, and in ca^e a third pr ary is necessary same will be hel uesday April 4, 1922, arid th ime managers will serve. J. HOWARD MOORE, Chairman Democratic Executive eb. 27, 1922. Committee. LEGAL SALE. s the District Court of the Unite States, Western District < South Carolina. i re J. H. HILL, Bankrup and H. M. HILL, Bankrup Under Order of D. H. Hill, Refere erein, I will sell at the home plac F J. H. Hill', in Abbeville County, ! . on Fehruary 23rd, 1922, begii ing at 10 A. M. personal properi insisting of mules, cows, farm su] lies, farm implements,, engines, tra< >rs, etc., amounting to' aroun iree thousand dollars. Terms of Sale, CASH. J. S. STARK, Trustee of H. M. Hill and J. H. Hill, eb. 15. ei. IN UNITED STATES DISTRICT <}OURT, WESTERN DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA In re W. B. Hill, Bankrupt In Bankruptcy By virtue of the authority vest ed in me as Trustee in this matter and under an order of D. H. Hill, Esq., Referee in Bankruptcy I will sell to the highest bidder, on sales day in March 1922, at Abbeville Court House, S. C., the following described lands, to wit J All that tract or plantation of land, situate, ljjjng and being in Ab beville County near Brownlee's Cross Roads, containing one hun dred and eighty-five (185) acres, more or less, and bounded by lands of H. J. Power, Sallie Harrison, A. B. Hill, Estate of E. E. Williams and public ; road leading from Brownlee's Cjqss Roads to Mon terey. Terms of Sale?Cash, purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. Sold , at risk of former purchaser. C. H. PENNELL, Trustee. O Feb. 17, 1922. 3 wks. iSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA fc| COUNTY, OF ABBEVILLE t j Probate Court ' Citation for Letter* of AdminUtra ^ tion. 1 By J. F. MILLER, Eaq., Judge of | Proba'te: | Whereas R. F McDonald hath made suit to me, to grant him Letters of j Administration 'of the estate and ef J fects of W. L. McDonald, late of j Abbeville County, deceased, These Are Therefore, to cite and T i admonish all and singular thej kin ?|dred and creditors of the said W. L. fj McDonald, deceased, that they jibe and appear before me, in the I Court of Probate, to be held at' Ab beville Court Housse ofi March the s j 4th, 1922 after publication hereof, j.jat 11 o'clock in the forenoon, td ^ show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be / granted. j Given under my hand and seal of ? the court this 14th day of February, 0 j in the year of our Lord one thousand 0 nine hundred and twenty-two and in 0 NEWS a !i .4 CcpjrrifJii 192 Our buyer is back fi ? _ 1 f urnishings are air very carefully this s line of Good Merchi In Young Men's Su strong line. Come to us for 1 the 146th year off, American Inde pendence. Published on the 20th day of Febru- i ary, 1922 in the I>ress and Banner and on the Court Efouse'door for the 1 time required by law. < 3t. by l^w. J. F1. MILLER, '! 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