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Established 1S44. THE PRKSS AND BANNER ABBEVILLE, S. C. Tke 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 AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Foreign Advertising Representative WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27 ,1922. RATTLESNAKE MEAT. In view of the fact that we are approaching the open setback season and the further fact that Col. Dick Sondley of Magazine Street is soon to give the opening party it 1 may not fee out of place to give some data on choice dishes likely to be ' served either by Col. Sondley or some other setback artist. It is not generally known, we believe, except on Greenville Street, that roast rattlesnake and rattjesnake ' scup are accounted amongst the choicest dishes which may be served at a function like a setback party. ' Mc. F. W. Hodge, of the Bureau ofj1 American Ethnology, it is true, says 1 m a lotter tn Prof- Wallace, of Wof-P ford College, which letter is quoted ^ by Prof. Wallace in his "Life of Hen- 1 ry Laurens," that he does not know 1 i/f any custom of eating rattlesnakes ' by either the aborigines or the white 1 settlers in America, but that, "It r" has been . stated that the eating of 1 ?aakes is It recognized custom in 1 Italy, the snake, being referred to as j '"'the eel pi the hedge". as distinguished frpm "the eel of the water." ij But evidently Mr. Hodge, who may?. be kin to JUr. Hodges mentioned bylj Charles Dickens, does not know! everything, because Prof. Wallace I j gives us an extract from a letter re-!( ceived by him from Prof. Alexander j ( P. Chamberlain, of Clark University I and author of an article in the Brit-j( VU liiv liiuitiii, A C which it is stated, "Roast rattle-j snake* were eaten by a number of ] our Indian tribes/' but he does not', know about the whites. jj However, Prof. Wallace produces^ better proof than the word of Prof, jj . Chamberlain. Quoting from a letter,] of Henry Laurens to Andrew Wil-j liamson, who lived at Whitehall (now , in Greenwood County) in the up-1 country, written October 30th, 1764,' Mr. Laurens acknowledges the re-j ceipt of "chestnuts, hazelnuts, Telonish & puccoon, for which I return j thanks as I do for the poor unfortu-! nate rattlesnake whose body made! an addition to my table today." Thisj letter is found among the manu-jr scripts in the H^torical Society ofj Pennsylvania. j TIT- 1 _? iV . * . . y I vy e una iurmer prooi tnat mei[ \ flesh of rattlesnakes was regarded I as a choice article of food in Bevei-!? idge's "The Life of Johr. Marshall." jt I-i a footnote to page 39, Vo'., 1 of if this work, we find the following: u "Thirty years earlier (1773) Colo-I^ nel Byrd ivcor:is '.hut 'Bears,!, Wolves and Panth :\s' roamed about L tho site of Richmond; that deer were J< plentiful and rattlesnakes considered j ( a delicacy." For authority for the 4 statement he cite? Byrd's Writings:' Bassctt, 293, 318-19. In a recent issue of The New York Herald will be found a letter < to the editor written by George W. j 1 Gerlach of in which he t j i quotc-s from another letter written |1 by Capt. James Murray to a brother, < July 19th. 175?, describing the ; country about Lake George. In thatktter we find the following: '"Sometimes when I have been out on command I have killed rattlesnakes about four feet long and as thick as the small of one's leg, with eighteen rattles, which altogether might be about four inches long. They say some have twenty or more. They have both teeth and a sting. The rattles being at the tail makes them that they can stand up on end and spring a short way at one. When touched they make a great noise with their rattles. Their bite is not so bad as called for it can be easily cured with oil or salt. They smell exactly like a goat, rather ranker if possible before they are B^ized, but afterward have almost n,o smell at all. They make the richest and best soup that can be, which I eat and like much. The meat is but insipid." j The foregoing should convince the' nost skeptical from North Main that j :here is always something new to be j ?xpected from epicures such as re-j >ide on Magazine and Greenville j streets, and if they attend functions ^ given on these streets their hearts; and stomachs should be 'attuned to { my fate. I AMENDMENT NEEDED. The prohibition law in this state; needs amendment. As the law now; stands a person convicted of having; liquor in his possession, of trans-' i\Ai*fir?er linilAV onrl eirvnlor* I l'VtW,"b W?V..UV-, may be given a sentence of imprisonment, or he may be fined, or he may be both fined and imprisoned. A person convicted of selling intoxicating liquors is punished under the law by imprisonment only; for the first offense he may be imprisoned for not less than six months, and for the second offense for not less than twelve months, with provision, however, for the trial judge to suspend a portion of the sentence in every case. . ? For the manufacture of intoxicating liquors, which is now forbidden ay the law of the state as well as of ;he Federal government, the punishnent is less severe than for the offenses enumerated above. Under the aw it seems that the. punishment nust be given in the alternative, so Jiat a person convicted may always L :i ? C. lave uic uppuirvuiuvy uu pay <t .uirc ind escape imprisonment altogether. Everybody knows that the person who manufacture liquor is as nuch a criminal as the person who jells it, or who. has it in possession. 3ut for the unlawful manufacture ef :he liquor, there could be no unawful sales and no unlawful storng, etc. If liquor be deemed the jreeder of crimes, and everybody low knows that it is, the manufacturer is in fact a much more danger>us criminal than the person who .ells, even habitually, and more dangerous than the man who stores lijuor, even when it is intended for sale. The law needs amendment so as to ri3ke the punishment for those per;ons who manufacture intoxicating :quors much move severe than at n-esent. No punishment other than mprisonment^ould be provided by aw for this offense. 4R. E. B. STACK MAKES ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILE i A miniature electric automobile is tttracting quite a bit of attention on he streets of Monroe. It is about our feet long and about two and a lalf or three feet high and will carry hree children or one grown person, rhe automobile was made by Mr. E. 5. Stack, son of Mr. J. E. Stack, and line novfnpf Kf ofAVon-ft * ?? JJ/V* 4VVWiJ K/J titvn fcV atteiy. Mi*. Stack is an electrical genius, le graduated several years ago from he A. and E. and spent some time at he University, but decided that ho ras out of his calling and went to \-ork with the Westinghouse people n Pittsburgh. He later worked with he General Electric Company of! Schenectady, N. Y. Mr. Stack made :very part about the miniature au-J orcobile and it i.* perfecjt as a large ."'r. Amos Stack, brother to Ervin,! tl's of an aiTangement his brother j )hce made when the father of the: joys tired of getting up at G o'clock n the mornings to let the cook in at j :hc hack door. Ervin got busy and! or.ii'.elfcd a wire to the lock in some i uanner, which no one but the dec-' l Lricr.l genius could explain, and also j rinde a connection with the clock in ! such manner that when the clock -truck 6 each morning it unlocked j Lho door.?Monroe, (N. C.) Journal.! Mr. Stack married Miss lone Mil-, ler, only daughter of Jones F. Miller, Judge of Probate for Abbeville, who j with her two children Jones Miller' I Stack and E. B., Jr., spent the sum- j mer in Abbeville. I As a result of 12,000 demonstrations in improved methods of Vk/vm.A /^airr'no' iK*? ^ n's\y\ 1 "V?v V^VUSVII agents, farm women are reported to the Unitfd States Department of Agriculture as having made acjcor<$big Jto demoristrated' {methods 3,300,000 pounds of butter during the year, 1,550,000 of which sold, aiwl in addition they sold 750,000 gallons of cream. VIGOROUS WARFARE ON BOOTLEGGERS Governor Harvey Reports Excellent Results Being^ Obtained. Columbia, Sept. 26.?Governor Harvey has made known his inten-j tion of waging a vigorous warfare on the bootleggers of the state. In fact he has already launched the fight, and he announces today that already excellent results have been accomplished, with state and federal officers cooperating. Governor Harvey reports a number of cases where the officers had made big raids, and he stated that he proposed to keep his state constables at work in the campaign against the bootlegger. During recent days the state and federal officers have been active in the eastern part of the state, and in Columbia several seizures have been made. The presence of a circus in Columbia Saturday was believed to be the drawing card for some whiskey, and on Laurel street the officers 3eized thirty-nine gallons. On the outskirts of the city the officers seized sixty gallons, the whiskey said to have been stored for an alleged Columbia bootlegger. Governor Harvey states that he is receiving the close support of federal officers in the anti-booze campaign. He is receiving reports from many parts of the state and his constables are working overtime. Complaints from people of the state serve as the *insis for the greatest activitv on the part of the prohibition officers, the governor states. TREMENDOUS POTATO . CROP IN SPARTANBURG Spartanburg, Sept. 2-6.?Spartanburg county this season will harvest th? largest crop of sweet potatoes it has ever grown, and farmers are making preparations for hauling and shipping the crop. 1,200 crates were ordered by growers Saturday morning by County Agent Carnee fr >m the South Sweet Potato Growers. Association. Many storage houses have been built in the county and a number are now being erected. It is the plan of the growers to market at once the potatoes for which they have no storage room, and to hold the balance for later markets. EPISCOPAL CHURCH RECOGNIZES HEALING Portland, Ore. Sept. 23.?The Protestant Episcopal church in the United States has been informally placed on record in recognition of the ministry of healing The recorgi tion was accorded last night by a vote of the House of B'shops ratifying the action of the House of Deputies at the general convention hero. The bishops' action authorizes clergy and lay members, who believe they possess powers of healing j to prepare themselves "by care and prayer and theological and medical study for their proper and safe exercise." ito vision is maae tnae wnerever this ministry is specialized those who exercise it shall do so only with ihe written approval after due consideration of their b'ehop and in sympathetic conference wi.h qualified Christian physician?." A commission to consider the matto:* of healing further was named. MONEY TO BE BORROWED. Pursuant to Paragraph 180G, Crnernl School Law, 1021 Ed'tion, We, the Coui.ty Supervisor and the Treasurer of Abbeville County, do hereby give notice that Open Bids will be received at tb? office of the Cour.ty Suupervisor, at 12 M., October 4, 1922, for a loan of Forty Thousand Dollar?, ($40,000.00) to be used to pay School Claims for the school year 1922-1923. The taxes to be collected for that purpose to bo pledged for money borrowed and nterest thrreon. Said loa.'. to be retired in four j equal installments, first to be retir! cd in about. 90 days from date of jioan, and the three remaining installments thirty days apart. Said loan to be deposited with Bank making this loan. The right is reserved to reject ajiy or. all bids. L. W. KELLER, Supervisor Abbeville Co., R. B. CHEATHAM, Treas. Abbeville County. 2t. ltw. * I C ??? FARMERS MAY GET PICRIC ACID Department of Agriculture Supplying Explosive at Coat of Packing and Freight [ Clemson College, Sept. 21.?; South Carolina farmers can get more picric acid. The U. S. Department of Agriculture announces that a limited supply of this explosive is I now on hand at Edgewood, Md., I and that it is being offered to farm-j ers for agricultural purposes free of cost except the charges for cartridging, packing and freight. This cost is 7 cents per pound for cartridging and packing and about two cents.per pound for freight to a central point plus freight to point of local delivery. Picric acid is a high explosive used in the World War and the government is now distributing its remaining supply as ar^ agricultural explosive to stimulate land clearing activities. Picric acid has given entire satisfaction to thousands of farmers in many states . who have have used it for stump blasting, ditch digging, et?. One car of 17?r 000 pounds was used by South Carolina farmers early this year. The material Is packed in cartridgas tho same size and shape as are used for dynamite, but the picric acid cartridge weighs 6 ounces, while the dynamite cartridge weighs 8 ounces. The six-ounce picric acid cartridge has the same explosinve force as the 8-ounce dynamite cartridge. Since one pound of picric acid does the same work as onefourth pound of 40 per cent dynamite the cost of the equivalent at around 2 cents per pound is approxj imately one-third the cost of the | equivalent quantity of dynamite at ! usual retail prices. It is clear there| fore that it would pay farmers who ! have stump blasting and other exi plosive work to do to secure picric i acid from this government supply. I Bocause of the greater cost of I freight in less than carlots, the Dej partment of'Agriculture will not rej ceive orders from individual farl mers bat will deal only with a coop i erating agency, which will receive ! orders, consolidate theon into cari lot orders aaid forward them to the ^ I I We have be !of Dixie Gem while it lasts a m .^lr j| per ton. Prefer* fj by checks. Nc vis | All coal spotc 1 ask for credit. I ill# Department. The Extension Service of Clemson College will undertake to handle orders for the Soath Carolina farmers if there is sufficient demand to make up one or more carloads. County agents are being instructed to receive and forward to the Extension Service orders from far-! mers in their territory, and those who are interested should see the county agents promptly so that or-J ders may be received and forwarded to the Extension Service not later than October 10. v NEW MERCANTILE FIRM Mr. Marks of Greenwood is in Abbeville today. He expects to cpen a branch store here soon, and will use the room between Turman's Barber Shop and Little & Thomson's. 1 I NOTICE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. Court of Common Pleas John M. Covin, - Plaintiff, against Planters Bank, a corporation, Lena Jordan, Ernest Liddell, M. J. Wallace, B. F. Martin, A. W. Enright, A. B. Bauknight, and John J. McMahan, as Insurance Commissioner of the State of South Carolina. Defendants, j Notice is hereby given that all npTsons havine- claims asrainst Sons i and Daughters of Ezekiel, a proposed corporation, who contend that such claims are a lien on or are entitled to he satisfied out of certain funds now in the hands of The Planters Bank, of Abbeville, to the credit of the Insurance Commission of South Carolina, are hereby required to file their said claims with me on or before September 29, 1922, or else such claims will be barred. This notice is given pursuant to an order of Judge Frank 9. Gary, dated August 26th, 1922. A. reference will be ordered to determine the validity of any claims filed imme diatelv after ScDtember 29. 1922. of which notice will be duly given. THOS. P. THOMSON, Master Abbeville County. Aug. 28,-ltw. 4wks. '.en so fortunate < iX CAF Block Coal, whi< L arirp oivpn to orne ) checks cashed ash at time of de fn. Laiinilrv mi 7 tl "" PHONE NO. 68. GETS SMALL AMOUNT Jury Award# One Dollar in Panage Suit*. * Greenville, Sept. 23.?A vtaiH# ol $1 was returned in the common pleas this morning M jfrt case of Vernon Gay agai*rt tfc Southern railway, who brongtal tjw suits for alleged false ar?f0 assault by an officer of the tyii? amounts sued for aggregating $10, oor MR. J. C. COX SICK. | t Mr. J. C. Gox, Coroner of~AW)e ville County, suffered a sligki Hon gestion this morning. It wj?s at Irs thoucrM he had a stroke of appoptex bit thifc was found not t;> be tbe e&< He is confined to his home, fni i not oons'dered serious.. STATE OF SOUTH CAtyPiJlN COUNTY OF ABBEVJLtl. Probate Court. " ->' Citation for Letter* of A?tmiaittri tion. By J. F,. Miller, Esq., Judge of Frt^B WHEREAS J, C. Cox, hath mad suit to' me, to grant him letters dH administration of the estate and fects of Jacob Bridges, late of AflB beville County, deceased. . These Are Therefore, to cite admonish all and singular the dred and creditors of the "said jflj cob Bridges, deceased, that thefll be and appear before me, In Court of Probate, to be held at ,AlH 'beville Court House, Saturday, $0t^H of Sept. 1922, after publication her^H of at 11 o'clock in forenoon, to sho^B cause, if any they have, why t>^B said Administration should* not ^Given under my hand and seal <8h the court this 16th day of Sept in year of our Lord one thousand nuBj hundred and twenty-two ana m w 147th year of American Indfipen^B ence. , Published on the 18th day of Sejfl| 1922 in the Press and Banner aiflB on the Court House door for time required by law. -H| J. F. MILLER, 3t. Judge of Prolate, com! is to secure ^ So9?e :h we will sell. 9 rsaccomDaied n until delivery. I >livery. Do not I 1Mb I ReH