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Page fouh Established 1844. the press and banner ABBEVILLE, s. C. The Press and Banner Company i Published Tri-Weekly Monday, Wednesday and Friday, jl Entered as second-class matter at post office in Abbeville, s. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .50 Foreign Advertising Representative A WTAVT AMERICAN PKJSSS a?suuauu? j 1 FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1922. TO CATCH SUCKERS t t Mclver Williamson, in the State, March 14th, had the following toj-j say: 1 h "Not only the constellations but L the other 1,000 billion stars point to f an exceeding prevalence of traps to | ( catch the farmer in the many awk*'j ward moves which he will necessarily I j. make in his first conflict with the a l>oll weevil. Lacking fixed rules to'a guide him against these pitfalls he'r will prove an easy prey to the wiles 'j of the trained diplomat. When Philo'j Gubb would become a detective he got himself a rule book which direct- v ed him under all conditions. When s he scented danger he hid himself be- L TiinH ? trpp and consulted this book. > t Every farmer needs to get him a'5 similar book at once. When a stran- U ger drives up to your house for the'p sole and unselfish purpose of con-'t ferring upon you a great benefaction, I you are to get behind a tree and con- j ^ suit your guide book. It will tell ^ you that he is fixing to pull your leg' c and that you should well anoint the1 v same with opossum grease before jj again adventuring into his presence.! In times past when he wished to I, ? sell you an oil well your guide book would have told that you should have required him to deliver the said well in the left hand corner of your front yard and then wait on you to pay ^ him from the oil obtained therefrom*. r If the kind visitor had wished to sell * you a fish scrap faotory the book ^ wouM-'hmve advised that yoti smell. t over the proposition at least a year. * "If he offers you apparati which v will destroy the boll Weevil, be kind r a k>tm *? {f io o ^ ?W uuu 1V1 IW iQ U nvauv,iAWi he has accomplished. Go with him to J 0 your demonstration agent and gather a together the farmers who have got- e ten good results from this said ma- r t chine. If the man's time is too valu able to do this, by no means detain him long enough to carry off a note a for any of your money. This guide fa book will also advise that you sign t no papers, especially those that are fa not to be used, or which are a mere matter of form, or which are guaran- a teed to yield a dividend sufficient to ? pay the entire amount of the adven- o ture into which you are being entic- a ed. All of us have much wondered & ' how it is possible for these polite well G dressed friends of ours who visit us s in fine automobiles and silken socks to so outprosper us when all of their t time was consumed in UDliftiner us. n "We had finally concluded that they were able to so greatly outshine.us even when we followed all of their advice simply because it is more blessed to give than to receive. When however, we consulted our guide book it said look in the glass for the goat. Economy is a jewel but we find that prudence is an even more essential adjunct in our dealing with our friends." There is only too much truth in the above, we fear. With every sick ness the quack comes with his nos-l trum. He knows more about the dis-1 s case than all the doctors, and gener- j s ally puts the -patient where the latjs ter can no longer give testimony. 1t The boll weevil is bad enough, "but if those people who would preyU on the credulity of a portion of the c people are to persuade them that it I is a safe thing to plant cotton since I the boll weevil can be controlled |r with this or the other device, we shall 11 have a still greater calamity. j Clemson College is giving the far mers of the state some sound advice a about boll weevil traps, boll weevil c killers, and other devices to get rid c of the pest. The Clemson authori ties offer to investigate and report on any one of these and thus give out reliable information, which t would be the best advertisement a b really valuable device could have,? s hut then that might not promote fl sales. v The United States Department of Agriculture has been experimei ivith the boll weevil for twenty y Those in charge of these ex ments, while condemning no p< ular device, have declared that only reasonable way to poisor soil weevil is by dusting with C urn Arsenate. The government :ell you where you may buy th< son and also where you may ol the machines to do the work. 1 vhy experiment? Taxes will be ;nough this fall without payinj ax to the occasional selling s ,vho desires to make a little m< [f you buy a machine at even rifling price and it causes yo ose a cotton crop, your taxes wi ligher than taxes have ever >efore. The Press and Banner would he farmers of Abbeville Countj o put their trust in any device rouched for by Clemson College he United States Department Agriculture. On the other hanc idvise the farmers to prepare 'arm, to poison and to do everyt ilse* which these agencies recomr t is the only way to make a >robable. Inquiries directed to ei igency will receive a prompt r< md you will get all the inform* leeded. At the same time coi rour County Demonstration A( le is here to advise yoxi. A machine which costs $10 irhich will not do the work is ex ive as compared with one v/ osts $100 which will do the ^ 'oison recommended by the Ui Itates Department of Agricultui he proper poison at 11 cents iound is cheaper than sweetened er given to you. Now i$ the time above all o imes when men should pay atter o people who know, and not be eived by the oily talker and the irho has something to sell. Don't ike a sucker. MORE FEDERAL AID AT PRESJ At a meeting of the State Higl Commission in Columbia Tue lothinc was done reerardincr the losal te include the Anderson-A 'ille road via Lee Shoals 'bridg he Federal system. It has >ointed out that the Anderson-A ille route known as the gei oads is five miles nearer than ither road to AWbeville, this b ne of the oldest roads in the s ;nd the news that no action was n in the matter will 'he received egret by the people living a his route. County Engineer H. B. Hura ippeared before the Commission lehalf of Federal aid for this C y. No more aid is available for leville at present, he was told. A request for $20,000 qf fed rid from Greenwood County t< ised on a bridge at Puckett's f >n the Saluda river was not gra ,s the commission thought o ^idges, especially the Laur ireenwood connection, could be tructed first. The Commission nterested in the matter of brid, he Saluda at this point but c ot offer federal aid at his time. DEATH OF DR. GIFFIN News has been received in A ille of the death of Dr. John <3 t Cairo, Egypt, after a short ill f pneumonia. Dr. Giffin had rea< lis seventy-fifth year and expe o retire from work and com Lmerica and make his home witl laughter, Mrs. F. W. Phifer, Vheatland, Wyoming." Dr. Giffin was a missionary of Jnited Presbyterian church erved in the. foreign field for ft ix years. He was known to the ociate Reformed Presbyterians he State and to Abbeville and Vest people as the husband of J Jalloway, the first missionary >ut by the A. R. P. church, 'hifer, known to our people as -,ula Giffin, is a graduate of'ithe nan's College at Duo West aught school in Abbeville fo rear. Two sons, Bruce and Marion C ilong with Mrs. Phifer, survive loctor. He is an uncle by marr ?f Mrs. M. R. Plaxco. Killed in Aeroplane. London, April 13.?Sir Ross Si he Australian aviator who with irother, Sir Keith, had planned tart from Croydon April 25 or light around the world, was k /hen his plane crashed in a prai light at Croydon today. SCHEDULE OF WO Of Home Demonstration A Next Week The following is the scl the County Home Demo Age.nt for the coming week Monday, Smithville at 3 p Tuesday iBrownlee at 3 p. Wednesday South Side 3 ] Prosperity Girls Club 10 Thursday Cold Springs G 3 p. m. \ Friday Iiowndesville Boys i Club at 10 a. m. Friday Campbell School 8 p. m. Saturday from 11 to 1 o' market will be opened at We want this market to (be help to everybody so try a more produce so that we wi away disappointed. It see eggs are the best seller an< lira tiowo ?<vf Via H enonirh 1 the demand. Let us not fi n?arke<t and be there next 5 iMiss Laura Bailey, th Specialist in girls work will next week to help Mrs. Git some special work. (She will following sewing clubs: Col< Lowndesville and Campbell, be prepared to ask her mar tions in sewing for is ? giving you valuMfci inf along this line. Lice Powders and their Ap You can eliminate lice fr try toy treating each fowl s< with sodium fluorid. Goi sodium fluorid may be p at most any drug store at cents a pound and may bi either by the socalled "pine! od or by means ofa duster ?n 1 punching small nail holes in i de man bite torn of a can that has a tigi top. If the pinch method is i bird is held on the table * pinch of sodium fluorid i: next to the skin under the as follows: 1 pinch under tt ENT i on the neck, 2 on the bi the breast, 1 below the v< the tail, 1 on each thigh, i sday' the under sid? of each wl pro- J feathers should ibe ruffle bbe- j the poiwder to get next to t Any one interested in thu more information by calling iway | County Home Deolonstratioi ;e m been bbe leral any | GREAT SWARMS OF RAT: DESTROYING GRAl tate. I (Moscow, April 12.?Offi (soldiers who served In the army poison gas squads .a pressed into service as ext great swarms of rats and f which are destroying the spi ings in the fields of the Ukraine, says a Kharkoff The crops in the infested ar a failure last year, and the the rodent swarms is unknot JOHN GARY EVANS MAY BE IN Friends Said to Have I Campaign As Guberna< Candidate. Greenwood, April 13.?Wl lieved by those in close to\ the political situation in this ho an nii+Vipntip rfmnrt. rpflfhe bbe-Jwood today that former ( tiffin [John Gary Evans of Spartanl ness be a candidate for governor :hed approaching campaign. It is ctedjthat friends of Mr. Evans ( e 'to launched his campaign at a i his meeting in Columbia last n of that Joe Sparks, a veteran n< man, would have charge of the;paign. and >rty- MORE COTTON FIGU1 As- j - over Provided for in Harris Bill Due | by Senate lary Washington, April 3.?C sent ;and publication by the go^ Mrs.1 of additional cotton Statistics Miss vided for in bills by Senato: Wo-' Democrat, Georgia, passed 1 and the Senate and sent .to the r a | One would require the censu i to take more detailed report riffin' ginned cotton and the othei the.require the Department of ture to publish, with its reg lage mith i his to 1 a illed :tice ton reports of this season, < obtained from cotton ginners probable ginning of the curr Senator Harris said that ditional information was i because ginning estimates h dicated an error of about o lion bales and have been a f said, in continuing the depr< cotton prices. INCREASE IS REQUESTED In Tariff Rates of Southern uct?. Prod Washington, April 13.?Resolu tions asking an increase in rates on Southern products and reindorsing the "American valuation plan' were adopted today at a special meeting of the Southern Tariff Association. Chairman Fordney, of the House ways and means committee and Sen ator Frank R. Gooding, of Idaho, ad dressed the delegates, who represent ed 51 industries in the Southern States. clock the the mill, s of some BIRTH NOTICE 1 Rnrn fn Mr. and Mw. JnTin ftpon. l^notg? I fl?rd ApriI 12' 1922 a dau?hter Born to Mr. and Mrs. Willie Wil liams April 14, 1922, a son. I SEED PEANUT8, POP-CORN, SUDAN ORA88, LAWN GRAM, CANE 8EEO, MILLET, KAFFER, CORN, SPRING BARLEY. GARDEN and FIELD f CORN . .and a full line of. . ..GARDEN SEED.. TOMATO PLANTS FOR ....SALE..,. ? BRIMMER, STONE, ACME, and NEVER-WILT. AMOS B. MORSE CO. /-?11 r?n I ti D is ueuig i Subscribers desi having Telephone ins FOR A R. GLEI^ f. - n^M one- eleven cigarettes I Three Friendly _ TURKISH . \ B W| VIRGINIA JBH/I WH1 BURLEY In a new package that fits the At a price that fits the The same unmatched Mend of Turkish, Virginia Goatasiwd bar israiasp. BOYD'S SURE POP COLIC Will sure relieve your horse or mule or cow of the < colic. ;.J" given with a teaspoon or small syringe. The horse does not' * to swallow the medicine to get results. When the touches the inside of the mouth, the blood takes op the Send me a Post Office order for 75 cents and I will pay the age to you. Reasonable discounts on larger orders. > r.-. . fcl noiiSi 8. A. MURPHY, P. O. Box, 1133, Co!und>la,i Just received a big shipment PRICES REASONABLE. HIGH GRADE xl ioce- i ci ii it?. " M B |B ta a standard BUilt IIP Not down (Beg. V. S. P*t. OS.) (q g p|"lC6 FOR SALE BY R. S. LINK, Abbeville J.R.WINN, Due West } SPFVRR A- ROND. f.nwrtdesville. wJ OF THE. Abbeville Telephone Co. 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