Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TO ERECT TEN STORES Buildings on Block in Greenwood Planned. firnjnivnn^ \ r?vil 90 Onr> of tllO most extensive programs of building! and development in the past two j years will be undertaken within ten | days when construction of a block of I ten stores and business buildings will I he begun by Kusn croiners, aucuru-1 ing to announcement made today by j G. W. Rush of Greenwood. Associate ed with Mr. Rush in the construction of the new buildings will be J. H. and B. F. Rush of Greenville. The new buildings will be erected on an extension of Phoenix street, running! parallel with Main street, on what is J known as the old Riley property. South Carolina Awarded a Loan Washington, April 20.?Approval of fifty-six advances for agricultural and livestock purposes aggregating *i oon rvnn ?nnnnfoH fonierht tpi,00?9wvr? w ao aiiuwuuw? ?o by the War Finance Corporation. Distribution of the loans included: Georgia $68,000; North Carolina, $282,000; South Carolina $150,000; Tennessee $30,000; Virginia $75,000 Watch the label on your paper. WANTS | FOR SALE?1 Plug mule, $30.00. See or write P. A. ROCHE, Ab beville, S. C. ltpd. FOR SALE?Peas, Iron mixed and .Whips, 90-Day Velvet Beans and Spanish Peanuts, for best prices see us, B. T. Cochran & Co. ltc. FOR SALE?flee cream in any! quantity for home use or enter tainment. $1.00 per gallon. Write me. card day before you want it. Mrs. J. Raines. It. c. WANTED A JOB?.Have had ex perience as salesman in several lines and am an experienced book keeper. Do not mind work. Best of references. Address "<x," Press and Banner Office. 2t pd. 4-19. FOR SALE?Ten window screens, s 4 i n j . siignuy usea. Appiy rress ana Banner office. 4, 12-tfc. TOMATO PLANTS?Just millions ready. Large stalky plants of all leading varieties. Delivered post paid 500 75cts; 1,00, $1.35. Ex pressed 2,000 up $1.00 per thous and. Immediate shipment F. F. Stokes, Fitzgerald, Ga. 4-21 6tpd. FOR KENT?Five room house on Ferry street now occupied by Horce G. Brown. Possession given after April 15th. J. S. Stark. FOR SALE?Porto Rica potato plants 1 chemical treated; now ready for shipping. 1,000 for $1.50; 5,000 $1.25 per 1,000. Place your order ' now. PITTS PLANT COMPANY, Pitts, Ga. 4, 7-8tpd. FOR SALE?Genuine Porto -Rican 1 potato plants inspected and chem- < icaliy treated. True to name, free of d.dease. 1,000 $1.50 lots of 10,000 $1.25 per thousand. H. D. SALTER, Pitts, Ga. ' 4,-5-8tpd. FOR RENT?W. A. Rowell house on North Main Street. Possession af ter April 1st. Apply at Planters i Bank. * 3, 24 tfc < FOR SALE?1 table ($0x32x72) ?5.00; 1 table (29x33x70) $5.00; screen door $1.00; two small win dow screens 25 cents each; $40.00 wood and coal heater, $20.00; one table (18x31x36) $2.00. At 26 J rarcer street. a. EAT WITH ME?Breakfast served at 7:16. Dinner 12:45; Supper at 7:15. . tf. 34 S. Main St Mrs. D. A. Rogers. POTATO PLANTS?The pure and improved Porto Rico Yams. Millions ready April 1st. $1.50 per 1,000; 4,000 up $1.25 per thousand. Cash with order. F. F. STOKES, 3, 31. 9tpd. Fitzgerald, Ga. MUSIC LESSONS?Mrs. Floyd H. Graves, formerly teacher of Piano at the Woman's College, Due West, is opening a studio at her home on Washington street. Modern meth ods taught. Call Phone 233. 4,3 i mo. col. __________ I We are the EVERSHARP Pencil ser-j \'ice store all EVERSHARP parts! are renewable. We have them also 1 full line of Eversharp pencils and lead. THE ECHO. 3, 13tf. j MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED MEN TOPPING EMBANKMENT IN ANTICIPATION OF MAXI MUM STAGES?CONTINUES TO DICE- AT NATCHEZ Natchez, Miss., April 19.?All pre vious high water records at Nat chez have been broken. Tonight the local gauge stands at 53.9 feet and the river is rising at the rate of three-tenths of a foot in 24 hours. At the Botany bay levee in Tensas parish, Louisiana, a force of 225 men is engaged in topping the embankments in anticipation of maximum stages forecast. A government barge has ibeen sent there with material to aid in build ing up the embankment. Vicksburg, Miss., April 19.? The gauge on the Mississippi river here tonight showed a stage of 53.5 feet, a rise of one-tenth in 24 hours. High water records have been passed at Rosedale, Miss. The office of the chief engineer of the third Mississippi river dis trict today issued a bulletin stating that all levees were in good condi tion and that here are no present prospects of any dangerous situa tion arising which can not be readily controlled. Seepage is nor mal throughout the district. I The bulletin covers the stretch of river from Australia Landing, Miss., to Ried, Bedford Bend, Louisiana. (Memphis, April 19.?Sloughing in the levees near Arkansas City, Ark., and several other points which was reported during the day has been controlled, engineers say, and they anticipate no fur ther trouble at these places until there is a further rise in the river, j A large force of convicts was putj to work on the embankment near Arkansas City and repairs were completed tonight. With the exception of these points where engineers say that trouble had (been expected, the em bankments between Cairo and Greenville are holding safely. Memphis, April 19.?A tele n Hon ft meaaasfe from Arkansas City, Ark., early this afternoon, stated that the sloughing in the Mississippi river levee near that town apparently had been checked and the situation was believed to be under control for the time be ing at least. 4-YEAR LIMIT OF METHODISTS CONSIDERED Columbia, April 13.?A discussion of the four-year time limit for Meth odist ministers with the possibility of lifting this restriction, will fea ture the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church of the South, to be held at Hot Springs, Ark., in May. Many Methodist minis ters from all parts of this state, will attend the big conference, leaving on a special train which starts from Columbia on May 1, over the South ern Railway. The Hot Springs conference opens May 1 and lasts about three weeks. Among the ministers from the Upper South Carolina conference who wil attend are: Rev. J. R. T. Major, Rev. D T oris) T?ov Mflfk Tj. LV. J_J* tJMVfVUVUUV M1*U **v * *. > ? Carlisle, of Columbia; and Rev. B. EL Turnipseed of Spartanburg; and laymen include, Dr. H. N. Snyder, of Wofford College, Spartanburg; C. C. Fe&therstone of Greenwood; L. L. Hardin, Columbia, and J. C. Smith of Waterloo. Among those who will attend from the lower conference are Rev. B. M. McLeod of Marion; J'W. Daniel of Sumter; G. E. Edwards of Orangeburg; and Rev. Peter Stokes of Orangeburg. New bishops are to be elected at the Hot Springs conference and many other matters of importance are to be considered. Uncle Dndley Laughs Ha ha! Ho! Likewise, he he. We laugh with joyous mirth, though Sat urday we thought we'd have to get clean off the e>arth. We had no Easter; clothes to wear, which almost got our ! goat, but who can tell what one has j on beneath an overcoat? ?Dudley Glass in Atlanta Georgian. I COOKED FOODS THAT SELL For the early spring market and to give variety to the Home Demon stration Club Markets, the following recipes are given as suggestions for marketable cooked foods: Devil's Food Cake 2 cups sugar; 1 cup butter; 4 cups flour; 1 cup sweet milk; 4 eggs (well beaten); 4 teaspoons baking powder; 1-4 teaspoon salt. Cream butter, add sugar, and mi> well. Add the eggs and beat mixture thoroughly. Mix and sift flour, bak ing powder and salt; add alternatelj the flour and milk; add the. vanilla To this batter, add the cooked syruj made from the following: 1 cup cocoa; 3-4 cup sugar; 1 cuj sweet milk; 1-8 teaspoon salt. May be baked in layers or in fun nel cake pan. If baked in latter neec a very slow oven, and bake for aboui an hour and fifteen minutes. Icing 2 cups sugar; 3-4 cups water; S tablespoons white corn syrup; 2 eg| whites; 1-8 teaspoon salt; 1-2 teas poon vanilla. Make a syrup of boiling sugar water and corn syrup. When spins ? slight thread, add one-third U. beaten whites, to which salt has beei added. Add syrup very slowly, beat ing constantly. Cook syrup again when spins good thread, add seconc third. Cook syrup again. When spins a brittle, thread add. Add flavoring and beat until it has something of i dry appearance and holds shap< when poured from beater. Spread oi cake. Plain Cake 1-4 cup butter; 3-4 cup sugar; ' [ eggs; 1 cup milk; 1 1-2 cup flour; ' I t. Ibakine powder; f. grains salt; 1-1 t. vanilla. Cream butter, add sugar, working it into the butter thoroughly. Sepa rate whites and yolks of eggs. Bea whites until stiff, cut and fold then into mixture. Add flavoring. Pour ii well greased and floured pan. Bak< in moderate oven for about thirt] minutes. Sponge Cake 6 eggs; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup flour juice 1-2 lemon. Separate whites and yolks of eggs Beat whites stiff; add 1-2 cup of th< sugar. Beat yolks until creamy, adc other half of sugar to them, thei add lemon juice. Combine white and yolk mixtures. Add the cup of flou: slowly, whipping it In lightly. Poui into an ungreased pan and bake in i very slow oven for ab?ut one hour. Drop Cookie* z ud. Duuer; c, sugar; x egg; j & baking powder; 1-4 t. salt; 1-2 c flour; 2 tb. milk; 1-2 cup jfineJy chop ped peanuts and 1-2 t. lemon juice. Cream the butter, add the sugar, and egg well beaten. Mix and sift baking powder, salt and flour; add to first mixture, then add milk, pea nuts and leanon juice. Drop from a teaspoon on an unbuttered sheet one inch apart, and place one-half peanut on top ofeach. Bake twelve to fifteen minutes in a slow oven. This recipe will make twenty-foui cookiee. One pint peanuts when shelled should yield one-half cup. NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF AP PLICATION FOR DISCHARGE In the District Court of the United States for the Western District of South Carolina. In the Matter of W. D. Hill, Lown desville, S. C., - Bankrupt. In Bankruptcy. To the Creditors of the above named Bankrupt: rp??u i.;~~ amh;i on 1000 xtme viiai un n.pxu ^v, x.vL?c*y the above named bankrupt filed his petition in said Court praying that he may be decreed by the Court to 'have a full discharge from all debts prov able against his estate, except such debts as are excepted by law from such discharge, and a hearing was thereupon ordered and will be had upon said petition on May 22, 1922 before said court, at Greenville in said District, at 11 o'clock in the fore noon, at which time and place all known creditors and other persons in interest may appear and show cause, if any .they have, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. D. C. DURHAM, Clerk. Dated at Greenville, S. C., Apr. 20. SERVICE AT BEULAH Regular services will be held at Beulah church Sunday at 11 o'clock Every member is urged to be pres ent as it is the last Sunday in the convention year. G. T. Aabill, pastor. 31 bf s hi a daonnknvrr i lie nuotuuu g Departmei Four Stores Abbeville J dre: i %' ** NEW SHIPMENT 1 E DRESSES JUS! These Dresses are ma that means they are m TTW-nc* mi a li+v imrw J. Ill v ^UWllVJ lAliy medium size checks w now, trimmed attracti moderate prices will movers. Sizes 16 to 42. J i; lie Rosenberg o.r ( ; i * i: i' v *1 <" ? i *1 .V ' , . V U I, I-J PHON iHBnPBPffiMMiMaiigmMmBn 700 NEWSPAPER MEN v ^ COVER GENOA MEETING Genoa, April 18.?Seven hundred newspaper men and women are ac credited representatives at the eco nomic conference. They are of al most every conceivable political complexion and represent more than forty nations and states. Leading delegations at the confer ence thus far have treated these newspaper workers with considera tion. Almost all statesmen and diplo iMnfa a&am VkA AM #Vl O flloff ViAVP FAIRFIELD %. vv vv vv vv Misses May Belle Young spent a ten with their aunt, Mr lan. Mr. Ansel Totber visitor in Greeirwo< Mrs. Fannie McC afternoon last week Tolbert. Mrs. J. M. Spenc UlObO STWUi wv i/w va 'vmv their respective points of view set right before the newspaper readers of the world. More than two hundred news paper men are quartered in a hotel provided for them by the Italian gov ernment but the really important clearing house for news is establish ed near the royal palace where the I workers prepare and file their copy. Miss Lena, were gu lie Langley Sunday (Misses Minnie Alma Young were t few days last week ; (Mrs. Jennings Fra Charlie Franklin of Joel and Reese Y the home of Mr. a Young Thursday nij Mrs. J. M. Spenc* It is a wild scramble every evening after 7 o'clock when the newspaper imen gather to complete detail of the day's work. Diamond (Robbery Cleveland, April 15.?Diamonds valued at $50,000 were taken from the office safe of Max Kurjan com pany, jeelers in a downtown office building this morning by three ban dits, one masked, who entered the dren an Easter eg afternoon. Elizabeth Creswel night with her au McCaslan. Miss Zellie Langli ternoon last week Young. Miss Lena Spencc night with Mrs. C. ] Miss Alma Your night and Saturday nie Belle Tolbert. biore wnu urttwu inruiicio, uiv.v David Gimp, office manager and a friend into the safe, seized the dia monds and escaped. Watch the label on your paper. NOTICE OF SALE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE Mr. and Mrs. D. little son spent thi Mr. J. A. Young ar Irene Young, who 1 them, returned horn Mr. and Mrs. E. < Sunday afternoon i Mrs. A. W. Young improving some. S. L. Long spent TAKE NOTICE, that on Monday, April 24, 1922 at 11:30 a. m. in front of the Court House, Abbeville, S. C., I will sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described prop erty to wit: 7, Sherer Patent Display Counters, 15 feet 814 inches long, containing 32 drawers. W. WALLACE HARRIS, Atty. Dated Abbeville, S. C. Apr. 17, 1922 r. -L?angiey. Misses May Belle Young visited Miss Saturday. Misses Eva and spent Wednesday aft E. C. Young. We. are sorry to S. G. Beauford and with the "flu" and soon be well again. Mercantile Co. I 9 it Stores Oj Many Departments S S. C. ll: 5SES OF GINGHAM \ i RECEIVED. ,de by Co-Ed and ade right. drted Ginghams in rhich are so popular vely, offered at such make them fast , ( |j VLL COLORS. Mercantile Co. i Mi E 38 iraziaaaizranram^^ vvvvvvsj TDr"?5i ?v?; MtCowkk lapravu* New York, Apftf 18.?-John v Mc Ai<il B ^'1/1 ii":--'-1 AVVVVVV i and Nora Lee ? days last week 9. Fannie McCas t was a business >d recently. )aslan spent one with Mrs. T. A. ie and daughter, vsornucK is mailing progress wwara recovery, following his serious ill ness. His physician declared today , that Mr. McCormack was "doing very nicely," haying continued the im provement noted in his condition yesterday;* EASTER ' Easter is the festival of the resur rection of Christ. Festival meaas Joy ful or full of mirth. A time of great ests of Mise Zei afternoon. &lle Tolbert and he guests for a in the homes of nklin and Mrs. Beulah. "oung visited in tnd Mrs. A. W. ?ht. 2 gave the chii g hunt Saturday gladness. . , The use of eggs in connectioi with Easter is very old, the egg kaTisg been considered in pre-Christian My thology as a symbol of resurrection. The church in this evidently having adopted and onsecrated an earlier custom. This is true of the Easier fires which were formerly celebrated a^ the triumph of spring over win ter. Some of the medieavel customs were very quaint, especially in spent nriuajr Fannie intf Mrs iy spent o*e af with Miss Eva ! spent Saturday B. Brown, ig spent Friday with Miss Min A. Young and g week-end with id family. Miss las been visiting B. C. Young spent n iPiickftfcfca with iFrance and Germany. In several French Cathedrals a solemn game of ball was played by the (bishop, catfon and other dignataries; grave and rythmical dances were performed, as late as the 17th . century, to the strains of Easter music. And all of these observances had a common purpose, the expression of joy in the resurrection. To the popular sports and dances, and these are still main tained in Constantinople, for ex ample, were added farcical exhibi tions in which even the clergy join ed, reciting funny stories and le gends from the pulpit calculated to excite laughter. and report her Sunday with T. and Nora Lee Zellie Langley DR. L. V. LISINBEE OPTIMETRIST ...Office Orer... [ Alma Young ernoon with Mrs learn that Mr. family arc sick hope they will McMurray'a Drug Store. |1 ABBEVILLE, S. C.