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Established 1S44. THE PRESS AND BANNER | ABBEVILLE, S. C. The Press and Banner Company Fu&iisnea ari-weeKiy Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Entered as second-class matter at! post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year $2.00 j Six Months $1.00 | Three Months .50 Foreign Advertising Representative j AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION; WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1922. THE SPECIAL TAX. Some weeks ago at a meeting of . the citizens of the town held in the j Court House it was decided to take | steps looking to a vote on the ques-1 tion of increasing the school levy in this school district. The work of se curing the necessary petitions was turned, over to the Parent-Teacher Association, the only organization connected with the schools. Immedi ately after the meeting the petitions were circulated in some parts of the city and the same were generally signed, but as yet we have not heard of the election being ordered. On inquiry the Press and Banner is informed that the work of secur ing the petitions has somewhat lag ged. #The ladies who are the officers and appointees of the Parent-Teacher Association have so far not secured j the necessary signatures. Perhaps be-' ing citizens with the vote is some-1 what more of a burden to them than j they had expected. At any rate theyj are proving about as slow as some! men we know. Laying this aside, however, it ap pears to the Press and Banner that' the matter of ordering this election should be pressed at once. In factj it is absolutely necessary that the j matter be given immediate attention, j The schedule of teachers' salaries for: the next year as outlined at the meet ? " AAM?I^A%)dK1ir i-nHnno/I oil ' lllg Willie V.V1101UC1 ttWij ivuuvvu ?I* | along the line, cannot be paid un-j less the two mills taxes are voted. j That much is certain. We shall noti be able we think to secure teachers' for any less than the sums proposed. j We believe, as we have stated, thatj teachers should be paid reasonable salaries, and no more than is reason able; but it is foolhardy to expect to secure jteachers for less than they! can earn in other callings where the! work is not so irksome. Perhaps it would be a good idea' for the trustees of the district to co-j operate with the Parent-Teacher, Association in this matter, at least so i far as is necessary to ascertain thej wishes of the public in the matter. The Press and Banner has no di-j rect interest in the matter. We are j for low taxes always unless the pub-1 l c good demands higher taxes. The! owner of the Press and Banner j would profit perhaps if the two ex-1 tra miils were not authorized. But we cannot stand in these matters on the effect such measures will have on : our -pocket-books. We must remem- j ber that there are many children in the city whose parents are unable financially to send them to schools olher than the public schools; there; are widows with children, and men j with so many children that good i public schools are absolutely necer- j sary in order that these children may : rccure a proper education. In many cases the parents are doing all that they can. It is a considerable charge ; on a man in moderate circumstances! to keep four or five children in j school, even when the buildings are; furnished by the public and there j are no tuition charges. The design of the public schools is to help all the people to educate their children j and especially those who need and deserve help. In forming our opin ions in matters pertaining to the schools we need to think of the pub lic good and not of ourselves too rv?n/?Vi I This school district is poor finan-j cially as compared with the school j districts in other towns of like size. We have %w nfenufacturing enter prises in the district and the income is small. Notwithstanding this our tax levy for public schools is muth less than it is in many other towns whene schools of only ten grades are operated. We do not believe there is a town in the state with eleven grades in its schools where the tax levy for scholia is lower than here. We really j ... . - . .1- . j . believe we are from two to six mills' lower than any of the other towns. J The Press and Banner has no de-, sire to press its views on other peo-i pie of a contrary opinion further than the situation demands. But we would be reluctant in our duty to the public, as we see it, if we did not urge the people of this school dis- j trict to get together and vote this' additional tax. We see it as an im-' perative duty at tftis time. The teachery that the Abbeville Press and Banner talks about for the; city of Abbeville is the thing that must come for many of our rural schools, and that will come in the near future. We have advocated that for many years, and we have some districts in Newberry county where that idea could be inaugurated to the rrro o + V?o r? ofif nf t>ip philHren and to I the community.?Newberry Herald and News. "WUSN'T THAR" Uncle Jim Stark says that all this talk about his going to Level Land is null and void. He hasn't been there, he says, since he made the conclud ing oration on the benefits of good * 1 1- J T roaas away vacn yonuer '.ueiuxe me war, or thereabouts. He converted Judge A. F. Carwile with that speech, and he thought when he did that he had about done all the good he could do in that community. He does not deny that "nephew" was in that precinct on one occasion last summer, and he is not sure but ofl-oiri Pnf Vio CflVC Liiau lie nc-iii/ nganii a/uu knows the nephew didn't do much card-playing and liquor drinking, because ho hears that there was fried chicken "galore" spread before the visitors on that occasion and he says the nephew wouldn't lay fried chicken down for "no kind of drink," to say nothing of a deck of cards; "Great Balls of Blue Mud, No, he wouldn't," Uncle Jim declared. Since all the testimony has come out about the wickedness of Level Land it is said that several fishing j parties are being planned for that' section; in fact if Col. Pat Roche hadn't already "set his function for Shuckpon Eddy," he doesn't know but that he would go to Level Land "hisself." We are expecting Mayor Walter Wilson and Uiiioi Jonn ft., rempie down in a few days to give a cor rect inventory of what is going on in Level Land. DRESS OF PURE GOLD ONE PRINCESS' WEDDING GIFTS Belgrade May 16.__A dress of pture gold is one of the most con spicuous of tho wedding gifts receiv ed by Princess Marie, of Rumania, who will be married here June 1 to King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia. The dress was presented to her by the peasants of the country. King Alexander has received from' the Serbians in Macedonia, shirt ofi pure silver, woven on a hand loom from a mediaeval design that now isj nearly extinct. Among the king's ( presents to his bride to be, is a mag nificent crown of gold, embellished with diamonds, rubies and ame thysts, each district of Jugo-Slavia having contributed one precious; *tone for the crown. MOOT COURT The mombers of the graduating class at the high school are holding moot court this week to the enjoy ment of the pupils. John Klugh is Judge and the defendant in the case "Bill" Cox, who is charged with the; crime of killing his dog. The fate of th? defendant hangs on the testi mony of Fred Minshall, a witness for the defense, who testifies that he went home with the defendant from a dance at the home of Donald Harris and they found the dog dead upon arrival. BANDITS SECURE $30,000 J Springfield, iMo., May 16.?Four bandits in an automobile intercepted a machine carrying pay roll of the St. Louis and San Francisco rail road this morning and escaped with $30,000 in currency and silver. Po lice Lamb was hit dn the left arm by a shot lired by a bandit. The driver of the car in which the bank [mes senger was riding was wounded in the back. Shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea aver age one for every day in the year. OUR FOREIGN TRADE DECREASED IN APRIL Washington, May 16._-America's foreign trade slumped in April, after ife ropor>4. accordim* +n r#> ports issued today by the commerce; department. Exports for the month 1 aggregated $3<21,000,000 compared | with $330,000,000 in March and' imports totalled '$217,000,000' against $256,000,000 the previous1 month. Exports during April were the j lowest for any month of the current fiscal year and albout $19,000,000 less than the same month a year ago while imports for April were the lowest since February when the total was approximately the same and were approximately $3,700,000 lees than the same month last year. For the ten months ended with! April exports aggregated $3,131,000 j 000 against $5,850,000,000 during1 +V?q / nn'osnnTidintr mnn+Vic nf 1 Q91 while imports for the period were' $2,095,000,000 against $3,264,000,-j 000 during the ten months ende^ April 1921. Gold exports for April aggregated $1,579,000 compared with $384,000 during the same month last year while imports of gold for the month aggregated $12,000,000 against $81 000 in April 1921. Imports of gold for April were the lowest since February, 19.20 when the total was $4,473. Gold exports during the ten, months ended with April aggregated $22,000,000 compared with $132, 000,000 during the corresponding! months of 1921 while imports of gold for the period totalled $446, 000,000 against $537,000,000 during the ten months ended with April last year. Silver exports for April aggregat ed $5,108,000 compared with $2, 318,000 in April last year while im ports of silver for th? month were $4,799,000 against $3,297,000 in April 1921. Silver exports during the ten months period amounted to $51,000 000 compared with $49,000,000 dur-j ing the corresponding months of 1921 while silver imports aggregated $59,000,000 against $49,000,000 during the ten months ended April 1921. MASTER'S SALE The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE Court of Common Pleas. R. C. HAGAN, Plaintiff, a&aiuai/ E. L. BOYD, et al, - - Defendant. By authority of a Decree of Sale by the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville County, in said State, made in the above stated case, i will 'offer for sale, at public outcry, at Abbe ville C. H., S. C., on Salesday in June, A. D., 1922, within the legal hours of sale the following described land, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in Abbeville County, in the State afore said, containing Two Hundred and m i ... 1 L.ii? / a <i n i / '? i wenty-seven anu one-nan v?^ -11/ Acres, more or less and being tracts Nos. 14, 15 and 16 of the Cleveland lands, known as the Norwood Quar ter: Tract No. 1G 48'.i acres more or less. Tract No. 14 111 acres more or less Tract No. 15 G9 acres more or less. All of which will more fully ap pear by reference to plat made by R. B. Cheatham, surveyor September 1G. 1919. which said nlat is recorded in office of Clerk of Court of Abbe ville County in plat book?at page? TERMS OF SALE?One-third cash balance on a credit of one and two years, the credit portion to bear in terest at the rate of eight per cent (8#) per annum payable annually and be evidenced by the bond of the purchaser and secured by a mortgage of the premises, which shall provide for ten per cent attorney's fees for collection, if it becomes necessary to place in the hands of an attorney to collect with the option however toj the purchaser to pay all cash. That j the purchaser shall pay into the Mas-j te.r's office five hundred (500) dol-j lars of said purchase price of said' lands in one hours time and if ha, fails to pay so much on said bid that: the Master do resell premises at the; end of one hour on the same terms and condition and at the risk of the' former purchaser. Purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. THOS. P. THOMSON. 5, 17,3\vk Master A. C., S. C. MASTER'S SALE The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE Court of Common Pleas. CAROLINE W. BRISTOW, Plaintiff, against J. D. PHILLIPS and ROBERT J. HUTCHISON, - - Defendants. By authority of a Decree of Sale by the Court of Common Pleas for Abbeville County, in said State, made in the above stated case, I will offer for sale, at public outcry, at Abbe ville C. H., S. C., on Salesday m June, A. D., 1922, within the legal hours of sale the following described! land, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in Magnolia Township, Abbe ville County, in the State aforesaid, containing Seventy and five hun dreatns l /u o-iuu; Acres, more ur | less, adjoining lands now or former-1 iy belonging to Calhoun Mills, Park er, J. T. Taylor and the Cotton Hill plantation, and is the same tract of land bought from Anderson Real Es tate and Investment Company by deed dated 5th January 1920, and is shown on plat made by W. H. H. Newell surveyor, November 9, 1916, as tracts numbered 12, 13 and 15. TERMS OF SALE?1-3 Cash, the balance on a credit of one and two years, the credit portion to bear in terest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum, payable annually and to be evidenced by the bond of purchaser secured by a mortgage of the prem ises which shall contain the usual clauses for fees when collected by an attorney, with the option, however, to the purchaser to pay all cash. That the purchaser at such sale shall' pay into the Masters office one hour after such sale, the sum of five hun dred (500) dollars of said purchase price of said land and if he fails to pay so much on said bid the Master shall resell said premises at the end of one hour on the same terms and / nnditinne and at. the risk of the former purchaser. Purchaser to pay for stamps and papers. THOS. P. THOMSON, 5, 17,3wk Master A. C., S. C. i A brass band has been added to an English asylum's equipment as a therapeutic agency in the treatment' of the insane. i A camera that photographs noises' is the invention of an English engi-' neer. Look for a garment tl fit, a garment that nc which assures good a them. I Summer Suits... $12.J PARK" PEGGY JOYCE SHOWS SHE HAS BAD TEMPER New York, May 13.?Peggy Joyce returning today from France on the Mauretania, bubbled over with in dignation when on the trip up the harbor from Quarantine, she was shown a Washington dispatch stat ; iL.x j.l j-i i."L~~i. iivg tnat me mouon picwirc uutaauer owners of America had banned any films in which she might he featur ed, "in the interest of a clean screen." "I haven't committed any crime" asserted the actress, whose name has been mentioned in dispatches from Paris in connection with the recent < suidde there of "Billy" Errazuriz, : Pay the Butcher and cost too much to let it REFRIG1 We have just receive* AUTOIV and will be glad to h look them over. W. A. Calv 07 \\T A CUTMr vyAjriniu ! riat will give a long term )t merely promises gooc Lppearance as long as yo SO, $13.50, $14.00, $18.< ER & I attache of the Chilean embassy. Th< Errazuriz family have indignantly denied reports that the attache die< because of unrequitted love for th< actress. "I think this is outrageous," shi continued. Denying that she had been hur pied out of France because of th< Chilean suicide she said: "The French police never came t see me about the suicide. Th French people mind their own busi ness and that is more than I can sa; about some Americans abroad." 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