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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 1 $2.00 Six Months 1 $1.00 Three Months .50 AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Foreign Advertising Representative ft.- . ? FRIDAY NOVEMBER 17, 1922 THE CORN SHOW. Eu. . The Corn Show is on at the Planters Bank. The exhibits are many and they are sufficient to show that the farmers of AbbeviHe County know how to raise corn. A great many more people have brbught in exhibsf . its than was expected at first, making it necessary to have more room. The result is that the whole lobby and office space of the bank is full of samples of fine home grown corn. County Agent Gowan and Mrs. Gibbons, the County Demonstrator, deserve the thanks of the people of /*rmnfv fnr the work thev have done in promoting the enterprise. When corn such as is shown at the Corn Show can be grown in Abbeville County there is little need isr -' to worry about the boll weevil. The farmers can tell him to go to well, say back to Mexico. P OUR GOOD ROADS. The Greenville News a few days ago had an editorial concerning the good roads in Abbeville County. Especial notice was given of the road from Honea Path to Abbeville. The truth is that we have come 1 * ? 1 * (nearer getting vaaue received iur( money spent on roads than any, # county of which we have knowledge.! A few days ago a prominent citizen ; of Greenwood spoke to us of the j MS;- - fine tfork which has been done on i our roads, saying that our roads | were superior to any of the newly; built roads which he had seen. We have had the services of good ' patriotic men as Highway Commis-1 sioners and the county is greatly in-' debted to them for the services they have rendered. The pay they have' received for these services is but poor pay for what they have done.'. But they have not worked for pay.' We believe that each of them has been prompted to serve the county . on this board solely by his desire to . i be of public service. . The best day's work the Highway , Commission has done since it became j a working organization was in se-!< curing the services of Engineer H. B Humbert Mr. Humbert is a first , class engineer and a practical road j builder. He made a fine Supervisor for Laurens County. He has had lit- , tie to sgy and some people have thought he was slow and that the, engineer's office was spending a! good deal of money. But the kind of j roads built under his supervision are sufficient to satisfy anybody that he has been on the job and that the j money spent in the office of the en-j gifteer has been well spent. We hope that the other roads to j be built before the Highway Com-1 mission completes its task will be asj satisfactory as these already com-; pleted. If so we will have as good system of dirt roads as can be built, we believe. I*' But when we say thi3 we would not have^he people believe that thej work is finished when the building j of these roads is completed. Time: and again we have warned the tax-! payers and citizens of the county that the large expenditure made for these roads will be next to thrown away unless adequate provision is made by the next legislature for Mteir up-keep. Already some of these roads are getting in bad shape. The j i defects which are now showing up | should be speedily repaired or we; [ will have mudholes instead of defects. That much is certain. ABBEVILLE'S "TRUNK LINES" I I ? I ? If it were announced that a new railway had been completed in South Carolina everyone would sit up and take notice, but the mere news that a new highway has been finished and ? . 1 ? opened to automobile traffic gets little more than passing thought. Yet the highway will transport in many cases several times the traffic that a railway would. Perhaps the fact that there are so many new highways being opened all along accounts for the disinterested receptions given them. _ Traveling over the beautiful highway that has just been finished between Honea Path and Abbeville, a distance of some 25 or 30 miles, vwe were impressed by the fact that Abbeville has an avenue of traffic comparable to a trunk line railway. Then going on from Abbeville to 'Greenwood where another highway is, being rapidly improved and will be opened to traffic within a few months, we were moved to remark that Abbeville is soon to be in the position of having the equivalent of | two new railways. There is not in South Carolina a finer piece of dirt highway construction than the road between Hortea i Path and Abbeville. It is wider than the average topsoil road, is well drained as safe as it is possible to make a highway, the topography considered. One motors along with no fear except of the speedometer auditors. The Abbeville-Greenwood road, designated as No. 7 by the State Highway commission, will be another model route when it is finished. At present a detour is necesj sary. j Abbeville ought to feel proud of these highways and the upper section of the state should feel even prouder. They establish Abbeville in direct communication with every [county and^town in this up-state and, j better still, invite every motor car owner to become acquainted with [the beauty of this historic city. Abibeville is the quintessence of charm, and those who do not know the town do not know their South Caro 1 , lina. The upper highway continues from Honea Path through Belton, Pelzer and Piedmont to Greenville It is designated as No. 20. The News ventures the prediction that these highways, will be worth millions of dollars to Abbeville and Abbeville county.?Greenville News. MAX COMES TO TOWN. Max Below was in town today. He started to town riding on a bale of cotton. When cotton is twenty-five cents per pound Max says he feels as dressed up riding on a bale as he would walking down street with a diamond ring on his finger. But Max didn't come all the way to town on the bale of cotton.' Col. S. J. Wakefield overtook him and asked Max to ride to town in his flivver. He told Max that if he didn't want to ride into the business sec tion that he might get out at the Graded School dnd walk down street. But Max rode in. He says that Col.: Sam told him all about the new Do Dad he is showing to the cotton planters. Col. Sam told Max, so Max says, that if the Do Dad don't save i the farmers, "Nothing will, I know what I am talking about." Max stopped at the Peoples Bank. He said he didn't want to see Uncle Jim because Jim always wants to trade. Max says he is better off when he comes to town and gets back home without seeing Jim. But he wasn't long out of the bank before Jim Was talking cotton to him and telling him what a fine mare it was that Max bouprht the last time they were in a trade. , Max stopped in to see the com exhibits at the Corn Show. He looked through the whole show and then turned to friend Jim and inquired, "Jim when are you going to sell it?" IN NEW YORK. Mrs. Ernest Glantzberg of New York City, formerly Miss Pinckney Lee Estes of Columbia, is to hang out her shingle in New York as a lawyer, having been sworn in Monday as an attorney and counseller at law, According to a telegram received from her by her cousin, Mrs. William W. Bourke. Mrs. Glantzberg was graduated in law from the University, of Pennsylvania a year ago last June. She is a young woman of uncommon intellect and her profession. * I al career will be watched with interest by her friends in this state.? The State. Mrs. Glantzberg will be rememberby many of the readers of The Press and Banner. She was a student for a number of years at Erskine College from which institution she graduated with high honors. NO, THE BOLL WEEVIL IS NOT PASSING. Augusta Chronicle. The Macon News prints an editorial, under the caption, "Is the Boll Weevil Passing?" To start with The Chronicle wishes to state emphatically that the boll weevil is not passj ing but is here to stay, and with this (statement we will qHote from The News in part: ' "The ginners' report for Washington county shows that almost 1,000 more bales of cotton have been raised in that county during the past : season than for last year, although a smaller acreage was planted, i' "On October 18, 1921, the num jbcr of bales ginned amounted to 13,526, and on the same date this iyear the number was 4,419, which, i to be accurate, is an increase of 983. j "We are also told that the farm|ers of Washington county used little calcium arsenate this year. | "The question has begun to arise 'in the minds of a number of students of agricultural conditions if the boll weevil is not passing away. This has 'been the history of almost every pest ' that has afflicted agriculture in the past. Neither -in the field nor 'the orchard are there any great number of insect enemies that made inroads '.on our crops a generation ago. Sooner or later, by a wide provision of j nature, a pest which otherwise would work universal ruin encounters a natural enemy and is kept in check or perhaps passes away entirely. "Of course the chances are that some other bug will come along, just a a +V?a TvinV hnll m/irm ?c fnllnwinc in the wake of the boll weevil, but there are at least signs that substantial relief may come from the one pest which has done more to hamper the South's cotton crop than anything that has ever developed. "We are gratified to know that the farmers of Washington county will receive several thousand dollars more for their cotton crop this year than they did last year, and we hope that the same conditions prevail in proall over the State. It would mean a greater degree of prosperity than we had counted upon.' What the News has to say in regard to other pests that have afflicted agriculture passing is perhaps .rue, but there is no sign that the *"?1 weevil is going to pass and we have an idea that he is with us forever, certainly for as long a time as cotton is planted in the South. The weevil entered Texas many years ago and is still there, although the very hot summers and very cold winters in that state' cuts down his ravages to a great extent and then, too, Texas rainfalls is less than ours and the weevil thrives most in a section with a high percentage of rainfall. Ever since the weevil entered Louisiana and Mississippi he has been bad and there is no lessening of his ravages unless the farmers combat him with every known scientific remedy. Cotton can be raised in the delta of the Mississippi as it was before the weevil when there is high fertilization, rapid working, poisoning, etc. WKon thorp iq a vprv wpf. summer we do not believe that it is possible anywhv.i to make anything like a normal yield. The Chronicle believes that it is possible with a very dry summer to make cotton without poisoning, but it is not safe to try it. There hdve ' been some good yields made in this ^ection without poisoning this year, but these spots were favored with less rain than others and the farmers who made these good yields with- J out poisoning would have made much m nrp with noisoninjr. Now as for the boll weevil passing, there is no hope fot it. We regret that a paper like the Macon News| would encourage such an idea. We do not know the exact reason why Washington county made nearly 1,00 )ales more than last year but it was probably due to more intelli-1 gent farming, which includes poisoning, high fertilization, rapid cultivation, etc., plus at least fairly favornKle weather. We would advise our farmers not to he thrown off their guard by any such thought as the passing of the boll weevil, but to prepare to fight him to the limit and make cotton in spite of him. We have just completed arrangements with the manufacturers to furnish us with special orders for party favors, in either stock designs, or to suit any special occasions. We have a few samples on display at THE ECHO. MR. JOHN S. NORWOOD. The following notice of thQ death of Mr. John S. Norwood was copied from the New Bedford paper. John S. Norwood, latq of 17 Ross Court, of thi3 city, passed away suddenly at his home early Sunday morning-. Death was due to 'heart failure. Mr. Norwood was born at Abbeville South Carolina, May 26 1855 and lived there until 1910, at which time, he and his family came to Medford, where they have since resided. In 1887 he wag married to Amelia Churchill Walker of Charr leston, S. C. Mr. Norwood was th6 last -surviving member of a large and prominent old southern family, and also one of the last of that type of Amor ican gentlemen of which the old 'South once furnished so many and to which the whole nation poits with pride. He was a man whose inlover'ablo chivalrous .nature generous heart; and nobility -of manner won for him a large circle of friends, both in his boyhood home and in the western community where he lived in later years. His devotion to his family, his sense of loyalty to his friends, endeavored him to all who were for tunate to know him. He leave3 to mourn his loss, his wife and daughter, Sarah, whose many friends will regret to hear of their sorrow. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the Episcopalian church, 7th and Oakdale, Rev. W. B. Hamilton ofI ficiating. Concluding 'services will be i the Jacksonville centory. Serve Sentence Here. Two federal prisoners were sent to the Abbeville jail from Greenwood yesterday to servo their sentences of four months each for the violation of the prohibition law. They are McCormick County negroes. Will Richardson and Will Andrews by name. It seems the Federal Court distributes the prisoners over the state without regard to where the offence was committed: but wherever they can be taken care of. FOOT 1} ? [ j If you can't fine ! J we'd like to have the 21 are sure you'll agree Sfact it will compare Cities. / SB 5] AND ITS GOOD FC 5 I 5 VJUUU [ Good 51 Good |l . Good j I Gooc J i Beau i I Blacl II Blacl ? 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It is the motor car by which othei it represents the best of each y< mechanical refinements, appearai The Buick Model "45" combin Buick qualities of performance a tinctive beauty and a completei not to be found elsewhere. , ( Well be pleased to give you a dei The Buick Line Jor 1923 Compri Fours?2 Pass. Roadster, $865; 5 Pasa Coupe,$1175; 5 Pan. Sedan, $ 1395; 5 Pa! Sixes?2 Pasa. Roadster, $1175 ; 5 Pats. Touring Sedan, $1935; 5 Pass. Sedan, $19 7 Pass. Touring. $1435; 7 Pass. Sedan $1625; Sport Touring, $1675. Prices Ask abcut the O. M. A. C. Purchase ! Deferred Payments. HARRISON MOTOF GREENWOOD When better automobiles are boil WEAR 1 in Abbeville, the kind of Fch s pleasure of showing you o\ is the very i m&rtest in IJppc most favorably with sho winf >OTWEAR [ in Style. . ; [ in Quality. [ in Fit. 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