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Established 1S44. 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 .ret? a e n post unite 111 nuuciiuc, >j. Terms of Subscription: One Year Six Months .. Three Months $2.00 $1.00! .50 AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 Foreign Advertising Representative MONDAY, JULY 1.0, 1922. THE CAROLINA LEAGUE The games of baseball between the teams of the Carolina League have not been as well patronized here as should be the case, considering the class of baseball our team is playing. The reason is that the eames have not been properly advertised. This the management now sees and those in charge promise that hereafter due advertisement will be given of all games. This will be of benefit in se curing a better attendance and will serve other ends. And one of the needs to be served will be the repaying of the proprie tors of the business houses for clos ing during these games. The busi. ness people of the city desire to promote the welfare of the ball team, but they cannot be expected to close their places of business when cus tomers are coming from a distance to do business with them. If prop er advertisement of the games were given along with notice that the bus iness houses will close at a certain hour on designated days people in the country would arrange to do their trading on other days, or at convenient hours. It would perhaps j be a good idea to have the stores open for a half hour after eachj game, as this would give the people an opportunity to do their trading if anybody overlooked the adver. tisement. I We repeat that the people here should support the team which the management has gotten together.. The young men are all deserving and | they are doing their best to advertise the city, as well as to give us amuse- j ment, and we owe them our encour agement. >IOW DO YOU STAND? The Highway Commission in this, county, so far as our observation and , investiigation have gone, are building as go'od rparts of their kind as have] been built in any of the counties. In ^ fact we believe that the roads built in this county are better than the - Uipsuil roads in the other counties ( where we have been. ; , ' ' - ? k But the most ardent advocate of topsoil roads now sees, if he has not known all the while, that these roads' will remain good and serviceable only ( when they are properly worked. A t good while ago we stated that if the( roads were built it would be neces. j sary to divide them into sections, and, that these sections be let out to con. | tractors, or worked by crews em ployed by the county. Everybody, sees now that some arrangement of ^ Viif lr 1 n r) llff K A mo/lo ?n Ar/I Ol? +A uua nmu iiiuot wc iuavixz lit ui uti bv preserve the i*oads. It is estimated that it will take,, one year with another, two hundred dollars per mile to keep the roads well topsoiled, drained and in first class shape. There will be something like one hundred and twenty-five mies of these roads when the work is completed. Of these some twenty, five miles will be looked after by the state, leaving one hundred miles to be kept up by the county. This' will require the annual expenditure' of about twenty thousand dollars, orj about three mills per annum in the way of taxation on the property of the county. We favor the levying of this tax until the roads have been fully test ed. If the county road gangs are put on these roads without men of ex perience in charge of the workers, the roads will not be properly cared for. We favor the continuance of the Highway Commission indefinitely, and that this commission be given au thority to receive and expend the money appropriated for the upkeep of these roads. There will be plenty of work for the County Supervisor to do elsewhere, and being relieved of the care of these roads he should be able on an appropriation of three additional mills to do the work nec. ^ essary on the other roads of the county. Perhaps he might even re grade and topsoil some of these roads, if but a mile or two each year. At any rate we have an invest ment of nearly a half million dollars in good roads in this county. The in vestment will be on its way to the Atlantic Ocean pretty shortly if we nnt take DroDer care of it. It might be worth while to have the ideas of the legislative candidates on the subject when the time is ripe forj discussion. What are their views! about the upkeep of these roads? and how would they keep them in proper repair? We imagine the vot_ f rs will be interested in the stand of' the candidates on these questions, j At least the candidates may well con-| sider them. a timp Tn nruT rt 1 11WA-. AW i IVJiii The boll weevil is commencing his work in the cotton fields in earnest. The time has come for the farmer to fight if he would make a crop of cotton. All advisers agree that the rapid cultivation of the crop at this season is one of the surest ways of getting results. The cotton should be ploughed once each week, at least, and preferably twice each week. This not only hastens the crop to maturi. ty, but numerous boll weevils are knocked from the stalks, covered up and killed, while the punctured j squares, the breeding places of the young weevils are covered up and destroyed. Now is the time too to apply poi son. It should be applied freely and frequently. The Department of Agri culture recommends that three ap nlifAt.inns hp made, one everv four days. In that way you strike at the old weevil on the stalk and in turn at the new weevils as they hatch from the punctured squares. You may not get every weevil, but following ( this plan, the weevils are not allowed to remain in sufficient numbers to1 do much harm, at least that is the' chaim. But whatever is to be done must be done this month and the next. The farmer who is idle, who is not wide, awake to the situation, and who does not utilize every known means of fighting the pest will not grow cot f A? f lllf TTO O V bv/ii biiio j tai. THE NATION'S NORMAL PRESI DENT. V, -w In his address at his home town of Marion, Ohio, President Harding said: "It is hard to be President and be natural and normal." But surely this President of the American peo. pie's Government, as judged by that address, with its sympathetic under standing, simple graces and indefin able charm, is no less normal and natural than the average manufac turer in his plant, the business man. ager in his office, the man in the street. Froiii his delightful mule story, de lightful because of the light hearted, happy manner in which he applied the boyhood incident to the unfold ing of his career in Marion, to the upstanding, virile attitude he r e vealed toward the Herrin massacre, strikingly expressed in scarcely more than a score of words, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, was the exemper'* of sound, normal, dominant Americanism. These few words of his upon the right to freedom and the pursuit of happiness will go far with the coun. try because in their very reflection of the normal, natural American mind they are the spirit which guides the nation and which cannot be made subservient to any tyranny whether of political intrigue and bargain or of brute strength: "Men must be free to live and achieve. Liberty is gone in Am erica when anybody is denied by anybody the right to work and live by that work. It does not matter who denies." And it is because the nation as a whole, from its Chief Executive to the American boy finished with school and going to his first job, shares the solemn realization that this freedom to work is the most cherished of all the national rights and privileges that the country can agree with the following words of President Harding as to the safety of the Republic: "I have no fear about the Re public. * * * America will go ! on. The fundamentals of the Re public and all its liberties will be preserved and Government must maintain the supremacy of law and authority. Under these lib. erty has its fullest fruition and men attain to revealing the glory of liberty's institution." These are the words of a normal man and normal President who knows his American people well be cause he is of and with them in all their national aspirations, ideals and , purposes?knows they will not suffer the negligent or supine public officer that cringes before the lawlessness which sweeps on to an unspeakable Herrin butchery.?N. Y. Herald. Expect Great Crowds For Game. The biggest crowds of the season are expected to attend the baseball games here Monday and Tuesday af ternoon between Greenwood and Ab beville. The recent close scores in . Abbeville have added to the excite ment and fans are eagerly awaiting the outcome or tne games tomorrow and next day. Anderson and Green- . wood are now tied for top place and the Greenwood club is determined to forge ahead. Fans declare that indi- . cations point to the best games yet , played during the next two days.? Index. Journal. HARRIS BANK BILL PASSED BY SENATE Washington, July 9.?A bill by Senator Harris, Democrat, Georgia, reducing temporarily the capital re quirements of banks for member ship in the federal reserve system was passed today by the Senate. The bill would admit to member ship in the federal system 'banks which have sixty per cent of the $25,000 minimum capital require ment providing they set aside 20 per cent of their annual income to add to their initial capital until the minimum is reached. I "QUEEN OF SHEBA" V OPERA HOUSE V THURSDAY and FRIDAY V JULY 13th and 14th V Matinee Each Day at 3:15; V Night 8:20. One Show only. V ADMISSION __ 25 and 50c V i DC THU A 4 Al A THIS BIG SEMI-A THAN EVER THI! MAKE THIS DO THE THOUSAND The YOU CAN COME THAT YOU WILL IN THIS CITY IS PRICE CONCESS: FOR YOU TO CO Don't Let The ANDERS ^ ANTREVILLE V iMrs. D. S. Knox, Mrs. W. W. McCarter and Mrs. J. R. Vandiver left Wednesday for 'Newberry. They will represent the Shiloh Mis sionary society at the . annual mis sionary conference '\\fllich meets the 6, 7, and 8. J Misses Sara Harkness and Vir- 1 ginia Cochran spent last Thursday night with Miss Beth Anderson. ] Mrs. Wyath Marion and children of Branchville are here on a visit J to Mr. and Mrs. E. R. McCarter. , Archie Keaton and George Fer guson went over to Atlanta to i 9 i spend the fourth. Mrs Tom McCarter and children j of Birmingham are visiting rela- 1 tives here and enjoying a stay in the country for awhile. 1 Mrs. Nora 'Crovfther and Miss Myrtle Crowther have gone to La- ] mar to see Mr. Malcolm Crowther, who has been sick for several days, i Miss Mary Prince of Sharon is i the guest this weelc of Miss Sara s Harkness. * Marshall Anderson of Anderson is enjoying a visit <to his grandpar ents D|. and Mrs. J. A. Anderson. Miss Mary Milford left last week for Trenton. N. J. She has obtain ed a position with her aunt, Mrs.| Lillie Milford. Mrs. A. tM. Erwin is in Aiken visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Holleman. Miss Winton Keaton, who taught school at Denmark last term, re turned home Monday for vacation. Before she returned home she visited in Branchville and Colum bia. Mr. George Gray has a position in Columbia for tne summer. The men who have been so faith ful in their work on our roads will leave soon for other parts. Their stay in our community has 'been very pleasant and we regret to see them leave. We are very grateiui i for the splendid roads they have j made for us. They are good road ! builders and our roads are a recom- S PQHAY IWL/i-a. a Anderson,! .NNUAL TRADE EVE 5 TIME. ANDERSON LLAR DAY, ONE >S WHO WILL BE HER Best Value TO ANDERSON ON T , GET VALUES THAT . SOLIDLY BEHIND TH [ONS FOR THIS DAY ME SEVERAL HUNDR Anything Keep' Th nfsrla v Retail Me ON, s > w COLD SPRINGS V k V iFred Uldrick spent Saturday light with Horace King. Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Uldrick had is their guests Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Uldrick, Mr. and Mrs. Preston Uldrick, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Uldrick, Frances and Harold Uldrick and Mrs. Mattie Bowen. Tollie Ellis spent Tuesday in VIcCormick. Mrs. J. A. King and Mrs. C. P. McMahan and children spent Tues day with Mrs. J. D. Winn. Mr. M. B. Kay spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Olaud Kay. The young people of this com munity enjoyed a picnic at Mar gin's Mill Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dickie Ellis spent ;he week-end with the latter's par nendations for them. Most of our people spent the fourth at home. Strveral from here ittended the ball game at Ander son in the morning. 1 INVEST YO Where You Kno\ SOUND, SATI PROFI The Building & OF AI NEW SERIES G. A. NEUFFER, President. R D \ JULY South Can NT WILL BE BIGGE MERCHANTS HAV THAT WILL BE R E FOR THIS EVENT. :s Ever Of HIS DAY, WITH. I ARE REAL. EVERY! IS MOVEMENT, A1 THAT WILL MAKE ED MILES TO DO YO Ifou Away Fron July 13tl rchants Bi south < S&aaSfitoM......... j. ents, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Uldrick. Mr. and Mrs. Olaud Kay and children visited in the home of Mrs. F. E. Hagen Tuesday. Mrs. Mattie Bo-wen returned to her home in Abbeville Tuesday af ter a visit to her daughters, Mrs. T. F. Uldrick and Mrs. B. A. Uldrick. Farm Loan Advance*. Washington, July 4.?Approval of 32 advances for agricultural and livestock purposes aggregating $878, 000, was announced today l?y the War Finance Corporation. Distribution of the loans included Georgia $96,000; North Carolina $78 000; South Carolina $20,000 and Tnnnoccoo $Q find VETERINARIAN Graduate Ohio State University DR. M. HARKAVY FERGUSON'S STABLE Phone 387 AbbeYille, S? C. iTTP MfWCTV U J.V XTJL X ^ XJ X v the Security Is [SFACTORY and TABLE. Loan Association iBEVILLE 5 JULY 20TH f a uADcr ?J. o. muivijci, Sec. & Treas. 4Y 1 1JUI Jina R AND BETTER E DECIDED TO EMEMBERED BY fered A "V T HE ASSUKAJNUHi BUSINESS HOUSE MD WILL MAKE IT PROFITABLE UR SHOPPING. ii Anderson 1 J