Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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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 at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One Year ' $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .50 Foreign Advertising Representative AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1922 WHAT IS THE MALADY? We cannot imagine anything which would be more of a backward step in this city than the the run ning of the public schools for only eight months. We fear that a good many people here are about to cut ?ff their noses to spite their faces. Nobody in Abbeville pays what it costs to send their children to school, that is to the public schools, whether the graded or the high school. The corporations are the taxpayers. It is said that no Southern rail road has ever fought a school tax. That is worth considering because railroads do not like to pay taxes, especially those taxes which do not bring them just returns. They do not object to paying acnooi taxes because these taxes bring adequate returns even to them. As the people are educated, they are,more given to travel; they produce more; they make the country grow. And when the country grows the railroads prosper. We should think about! that. We like to ibe called prosper-! ous. We quarrel with the city for I not going ahead. And yet we would neglect the surest way of making it j go ahead?the running of good schools for the education of the children. Surely the people here will not allow the schools to be crippled by failing to sign the petition for an pl??rtion on the anestion of levying an additional tax of two mills, when that additional tax is absolutely necessary to operate the schools for nine months. What kind of malady affects the people anyway? It has been a long time since any one srave us a little money to keep until they called for it. They are extending the white way along North Main Street. Green ville Street shines without lights, i 0 We are about to have another bus iness revival?the business of pre senting bills on the first of the month. 0 Senator Pat Harrison has won for the democrats again. But then the c olnroxrs win in ol?>r>_ UtiliyViUVO M11TUJ tl 111 VAVV^b AAA VI VV tion years. 0 It seems now that there will be a sufficient number of candidates to guarantee that all the offices will be filled. 0 Some people do not yet believe in the boll weevil, but the boll weevil has an argument which is convincing. They have yet to hear it. 0 The people must be very foolish. We have seen a dozen candidates for office and each one says that the people are responsible .for his can didacy. 0 Over in Atlanta they are having "Prosperity Week." After thinking ?bout it and considering all we have been through we do not believe we could stand a week of prosperity. 0 All the culprits to be tried at th|e June term of the court are hoping that the weather will turn warm next week so that Brother Blackwell will not feel like exerting himself too much. 0 There are a whole lot of people who want to put democracy and Christianity in business, but they want the republicans and sinners to furnish the money for the experi ment. 0 There are a lot of teachers in this country who do not know how to teach. We can prove that by all the bad boys who did not pass, and their testimony will be corroborated by many of the parents. 0 In selecting a college to attend the young graduates sjiuuiu rccjj m mind that the college is no better than its students and that it cannot lead students beyond the place they are willing to go. 0 Governor Cooper would no doubt pardon some of his critics if they quit criticising his pardon record. Anyway it was eighteen that he par ioned and not nineteen. There is something to be thankful about in . ;hat. 0 The graduates over the country , ire giving all of us some sound but . :ree advice. They will learn to charge 'or advice when they become law- 1 fers. Until they do people will not following their advice. After the people begin to pay they are forced ' to follow advice, good or bad, in or der to get their money's worth. i' BOLL WEEVIL FILM T. M. Cheatham of the Southern Cotton Oil Company has pemission bo keep the boll weevil film and will i L? rf-Vi/i Anai-a hnilCB 1 91XUW DOiilC Ab v^v* m uwwv . Thursday night. It is a film that i should 'be seen by every farmer in 1 Abbeville county who expects to 1 raise cotton in spite of the boll wee- \ i'il. Mr. Cheatham will have one of ] the machines used in dusting the :alcium arsenate .on the square Saturday morning for the purpose { of demonstration. Eight Abbeville farmers have planted ten acres of cotton accord ing to the instructions given by the Southern Cotton Oil Company, five acres of which are to be dusted and five acres to be grown without dusting. W. P. Nickles, Bert Fergu son, G. E. Mann, McKerozie and Johnson, W. A. Stevenson, W. H. Long, L. C. Haskell and Dr. S. G. Thomson are the farmers planting ten ?cres for the purpose of demon stration. . The Department of Agriculture finds the yield over doubled by us ing calcium arsenate and dusting in the proper way. MR. HAFNER BEREAVED. A. R. Hafner, teacher in the Ab beville high school left this morning for Winnsboro, in response to a tele gram telling him of the death early this morning of his mother, Mrs. W. H. Hafner at the Gaffney city hospi tal. Mrs. Hafner, who was Mrs. Eliz abeth Beaty Jordan of Winnsboro, has been a patient sufferer for months having undergone several operations at Johns Hopkin's and the Char lotte Sanatorium but with practical ly no relief. Her death, while not un expected, is a sore bereavement to her husband, Rev. W. H. Hafner, pastor of the Gaffney Presbyterian church, and to her stepsons, Heath, Andrew and William Hafner, and her son, Thomas Glover Jordan. Mrs. Hafner is a relative also of Misses Harriet Coan and Lilla Ketch in of the Abbeville graded school. The funeral and interment will be held in Winnsboro Thursday morn ing. Besides those named above, Mrs. Hafner is survived by her father, W. A. Beatty, a sister, Miss Ella Beaty, and a brother, W. A., Jr., all of Winnsboro. Mr. Hafner has the sympathy of his many friends in Ajbbeville in his hour of sorrow. INTEREST OF SIMMS' HISTORY Mrs. May Simms Oliphant of Greenville, accompanied by Mrs. Dowling and Mayor and Mrs. A. S. Hartzog of Greenwood, were in Ab beville yesterday in the interest of Simms' History of South Carolina Mrs. Oliphant is a granddaughter of Gilmore Simms and has recently revised his history, and is now go ing over the state interviewing the superintendents of the different schools in the hope of having 'it placed in our schools to be used in the sixth grade work. SIX YEAR OLD MUTE UTTERS FIRST WORD Atlantic City, N. J., May 30.? Mute since birth, six year old Wil liam Rosenbors, of Washington, ut tered his first word "airplane" yes terday afternoon when take* up 1,000 feet in a seaplane. In the hope that altitude would help the boy in his efforts to talk he was tak en up mere than 5,000 feet today. ' BIG BLAZE AT MEMPHIS Fire Causes Damage Estimated At $750,000 Memphis, May 30.?Fire of . un determined origin, tout believed tc have been started from defective electric wiring, late today gutted the two upper floors of the Bry Bloc Mercantile Company here, one of the largest department stores ir the South, causing estimated dam age of $750,000, principally from smoke and water. Hundreds of employes barely es caped from the building, as fanned by a high wind, the flames swept through a frace loft erected for storage purposes on the roof of the seven-story building and. spread to the main structure. Several suffered minor injuries and were taken to their homes in am/bulances. / The fire was confined to the loft and the two upper stories (but store officials say the stock in th? lower floors will be almost a total loss from water and smoke. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends and leighbors for their kindness shown us during the recent illness and ieath of our baby. We also wish to ;hank Dr. Pressly for his kind atten tion. May God's richest blessing rest ipon each and all of them is our srayer. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Dudley. GOV. HARVEY PERFORMS HIS FIRST OFFICIAL ACT Columbia, May 25.'?Governor Harvey performed has first official act today when he signed a notarj public commission far a lady, Misf M. D. Reid of Spartanburg. The governor was asked by newspapei men if he had a leaning for the laides, and he replied that the signing of a woman's commissior was as a sort of tribute to th? nev feminine voter of the state and t< the ladies generally. "But nobodj can accuse me of doing this to catei to the feminine vote, for I am no' going to offer for reelection," th< governor laughingly added. gj What "Wear n it Really I Means e ^ Fin vrm tViP fri< J-/ V J VVi X WWAA VAAV for the Suit that lool< season? Styleplus Cloth That's why we sell t Summer Suits like M< Tropical Worsteds, and the style lasi "wear" really mean too, for you to choos get just what you ar SUMMER SUITS 1 $16.50 1 Parker < I D. H. HILL CORRESP(?rDENT D. H. Hill has ibeen appointed coi resiK>nde>nt and attorney for Abb< ville County to represent the Firs Carolina Joint Stock Land Bank < Columbia, which has been chartere by the Federal Farm Loan Boari and of which Hon. A. F. Lever president. The .business done b this bank will be similar to thi done by the Federal Farm Loa Bank of Columbia, but with lei red tapft A $ioou loan will cost $7 a year and at the end of 33 yeai this pays off principal and interee 29 CARS OF ASPARAGUS Little Town in Barnwell Coin ty Kept Busy Barnwell, May 26.?Elko, a littl town in Barnwell County, shippe twenty-seven freight and two ea press cars of asparagus this seasoi the freight charges alone nettin the railroad $8,9?8.87, it is said. 1 I. . f _HL_A J.V. ?? IS not Known wnai wie uvp m worth to the farmers, (but it is est mated that Williston shipped moi than $100,000 worth of asparagu Quite a lot of asparagus was ah shipped from Barnwell and thei will be more shipped from this poii next year. Garden of Ed?n is generally bi lieved to have been in the valley < the Euphrates. BOY WANTED Somewhere in this town is one boy who is a "go-getter" spirit, full of grit and ambition, and ab onintoiv honest. We want that boy. He will ke the only boy ageiit in this town for the famous MOVIE WEEKLY MAGAZINE. He will work after school and other spare time. His pay will be what he makes it; beside fine prizes and free Movie Ticketa. When he mak es good, he will be promoted. If you are between 14 and 19 yean old, determined to "make good" and truly think you are the boy for V.his job, then apply by lettei to Mr. E. L. Gilbert, "Personal," r 3rd floor, 119 West 40th St., New ' York C;ty. Give full details of an5 , part selling experience; your age parent's full name and business your school grade and at least twc i references. mdly feeling you had ed well the second j t i i t js are inai Kinu. hem. Even the light )hairs, Palm Beaches, etc., wear splendidly ;s too?that's what s. We have variety, e from?so you can e looking for. M 2.50, $14.00, $15, :o $25.00. & Reese 5J5J5JBE!5IEJ5EJ5r2JSJSfSJBJSISfS/EJEJBI5/BIBJSJBJ GREENWOOD PASTOR WILL GO TO WINSTON-SALEM 'Greenwood, May 30.?Rev. John ^ R. Jester Sunday resigned as pas IF YOU WOULD KNOW THE SCREEN CAN DO DOUGLAS * in Alexant "The Three With nothing that has ever beei films given to the world, can yc picturization of a story that has en in every country on the face unforgettable emotion. And D D'Artagnan has caught, with n "something" that enables him ti OPERA HOUSE, MO JUNE 5th and 6th. A M?1I INF .V M. A 1 M AND OTHER MOL For that Qats an< Mower. It is one of tl _ VULCAN PLOWS i Hand. I * , j HEADQUARTE] See us for seed of all Peanuts, Mung Bear j Soy Beans, Seed Co] ; for field or garden. Shipment of Mexica B.T.C0CHRA ABBEVI 313 ? extra good nickel! Big and fine a these famous AUER bigger and finer. Yet a hint: stop at any c of the many populai They're crowded to t some chocolate, enc ing a tempting fill that makes every encourage another. J there are more b now! Sold everywh CHOCOU D. AUERBACH & SONS - Choc MR. RETAILER: The follt supply you with the bigger < 0 G. E. CALVERT, 1 tor of the First Baptist chnrch of this city to accept the call to (the pastorate of the First Baptist church of Winston-Salem, N. C. ef fective July 1. WHAT -SEE FAIRBANKS ire Dumas' iTiuonviv^i o i done in the vast multitude of ju fairly compare this supreme made millions of men and wojn of the earth, laugh and sob with ouglas Fairbanks as the noble ire feeling, that indescribable uly to live the part. ' NDAY & TUESDAY \ lDMISSION 25 and 50c. . MOWPRQ v I ATI V ' WW [NE IMPLEMENTS. .:.r r !, i Hay get the Moline he beit on the market. 0 i y wer $72.50 se $37.50 1ND POINTS ON RS FOR SEEDS. kinds such as Peas, ls, Mammoth Yellow n, in fact everything n June Corn coming. m. r 4* ^ <m mw*. ? mvwv N & tUlttr AN ? LLE, S. C. CXTRA LARGE, ! A dime's worth for a s they were, we've made BACH Chocolate Bars they cost no mere. Take andy place and try one AUERBACH varieties. he wrapper with whole -t - I Aotf' :los r ft* ^ {BACH HTE BARS Headquarters New York, U. S. A Lu Mtm\\\ wWWWUhZ miitcr twing wholesale distributors can and better AUERBACH Bars, VBBEVILLE, S. C. ' ?\