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* ti Xocal *l!i inw wv i : personals ^ rJt1 S. F. Hammond, of Bethel, was in town Tuesday. Andrew Stone, of Level Land, was a business visitor herei Tuesday. G. N. Nickle6, of Due West, was a business visitor in town today. I Miss Lola Temple and her mother Mrs. Temple of Level Land, were in town Tuesday. T. J. Martin, a prosperous onerchant of Calhoun-Falls, was in townj I yesterday. Marion Andrews, of Willington, wa3 in Abbeville yesterday to sedl a fine horse. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Wilson and Mrs. C. P. Townsend spent Tuesday in Anderson. Mrs. Frank Wilson of Watts and Miss Sallie Wilson of Grainridge were in town shopping Tuesday. Martin iiveal, of Union Point, Ga., ig in Abbeville for a visit to his mother, Mrs. T. C. Seal. ? Mrs. S. S. Morag-ne and daughter Miss Cora of Bordeaux spent Tuesday in thfe city. (Dr. and Mrs, Chalmers Had don of Williamston were in the city Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hammond and Arthur Jr., of Gray Court, visited Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wosmansky for several days this Week. i ; Major J. D. Fulp has gone to Anderson today to attend the meeting -of the football* committee to take final action on the eligibility of the Chester and Rock Hill players. 80 (Mrs. Armie McAllister, fell this morning -while getting out of an fflB automobile in front of Cochran's Sfl store, and while painfully hurt, it was not serious. |l /Mrs. Jim Shierard land* 'children |? have been in Abbeville foj- several days to see Mrs. Sherard's father, Mr. Lewig Blunt who has (been EB threatened with pneumonia. 9BH Mrs. N. P. Milford, of Santuc, Iw-ao IU vvnii bvuajf auu i^nvn w uw subscription to the Press arid Banner. She was accompained by her fine young granddaughter, Thelma Newell. Mr. Lewis Blount Sick. Mr. Lewis Blount ha3 been quite sick at his home in the city for' several days. He has been threatened with pneumonia, but his friends hope he has passed the crises at phis time. j MR. WILSON IMPROVING I Mr. Joe A. Wilson, , who was op-j prated on Sunday morning at the hfosnifcal. for nrmpn ^ i p if.i r Ss rvvrwirt II improving this morning. AUXILIARY MEETING The young woman's auxiliary of e Baptist Church will meet wit'nj iss Elizabeth Edmunds Thursday: ening at 6 o'clock. ! OPERA HOU JACK HOLT, ACNES AYRES, "BOUGHT AN "Last night you said that you SSaragj never be able to say that agair jgyjffirej There is usually an "if" to ] Could the mutual courtesy and fe&fflyKflB months bd maintained through hh|h| ' no "ifs." i ADMISSION HIKED TO TOWN. . fef* Wayman Below, of Bethia, hiked S to town this morning early to get a |] package of tobacco. He is in the j| Bethia section remodeling his house ^ Ho expects to move his family from Calhoun Falls to Bethia soon. TEMPLE HOME BURNS. ei| :by B. S. Temple of Level Land had fri the misfortune to loss his home by mi c? 1 --+ C!.MVa Tamnla was 1U C iOOt kjauuiuaj. iavaiu.*?? a | YV C away teaching school and Mr. Tempie was at work The loss is partially sei covered by insurance. cai ? 0f Fine Irish Portatoei. rjE R. S. McComb had a wagon load of fine fall Irish potatoes on the ^ street this morning. Ho planted on i ^ the bottom land of the Front Pick-; ens Farm, and some of the potatoes' ^ he made will weigh as high as a pound and a half. UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT Hj Se Miss Julia McAllister had her an"'^v klo struck by the hoof of a horse Tuesday afternoon an one of the ^ street crossings on the square. The accident was unavoidable. A young, colored boy wtas riding horse back | and his bridlo became crossed he lost control of the horse. Miss McAllister is n<ft seriously hurt; nC OH only inconvenienced by a lame foot. BUYS VALUABLE PLANT fir Single Strawberry Plant Sell* For | $50,000. ! ?fl Three Rivers. Mich. Nov. 21.?! 1 Fifty thousand dollars for a single*! \ ,1 |f|Q strawberry plant wa^ paid i today; by Frank E. Beatty, president of j the JR. E. Kell-ogrg Company, fruit { a*" growers. jre' The plant ig to be known as ni? "Rock Hill" in honor of its breed-i in er Harlow Rockh?ll, of Conrad,; Iowa.. The plant bears in early summer j and begins again in the late sum-1 ' ' sti mer ibcoring' - continuously 1 until ' p frost comes. "We are paying the price, not qu from the idea of making a profit, u but as an incentive to growers and ^>r breederg' of plants to develope new ^> ' * ? an varieties," said Mr. Beatty. of FOR PERMANENT RELIEF mc inv 'j Railroad Owners Call on Commerce Commission. Washington, Nov. 21.?The Asso- 2X1 ciation of Owners of Railroad Securities renewed its efforts today to have the Interstate Commerce Com- ^ mission take steps toward establishment of permanent relief from railway car shortages. In a letter to ' Commissioner Atchison, commission- ^ er of the car service division, of the Commission, S. DAvies Warfield, the v^' association's president, declared that ?* so long as present conditions res- T01 pecting the interchange of cars con- ^ tinue, private operations of the railroads "is endangered." ?* The letters advert to the applica- c?5 tinn nf fV>o TTninn In tho mission, asking it to use its emer- reI gency powers to supply that rail- s*r road with cars consistent with the a * roads car ownership. 'If additional evidence werd re- SP* quired," the Warfield letter says, we "to demonstrate the inadequacy of present railroad methods in respect to interchange of car equipment and the necessity of the pooling of interchange freight cars, the application of the Union Pacific suppjies it, being unwilling to entirely rely ov on the competency of the railroad's T*5 own agency to supply cars." ^ of State Highway Meeting. ro' Columbia, Nov. 21.?The state 3 highway commission was scheduled los to meet hero today to take up a dri number of matters. Included will be consideration of recommenda- bo tioirtg to be made to the general as- wh sembly when it meets in January. ed ?? no SE FRIDAY JiB? <\< w< WALTE RHIERS and Otbert In ex D PAID FOR" | Er bought and paid for me. You'll ;jj ho l. o ha perfect happiness in marriage. consideration of the first few the years, marriage would have :|:jro >1 Hi . . 15 and 35 Cents. |: rr [SiDJiSISic,I31SJ5ISMSISISfi3S15SISISJS?SISF QOGIET*7 i kJ- 1 ? A BRYSON EVANS' PARTY Bryson Evans cleebrated . his fht birth-day Monday afternoon inviting about forty <xf his ends in to play games. In the dst of the games the children re invited into the dining room iere ice cream and cake were ved. The birthday cake had eight \ ndles on it, dnd the Wowing cut these was the rause of much' mer ivent. As the guests were 'leaving 5 dining room they were presestwith favors of small bags of ndy. All departed happy and shing for Bryson many happy rerng of the* day. To Name Judges. Washington, Nov. 21.?President irdimg is expected to send to the nate within the next few days ej names of a successor to William Day as associate justice of the ipreme Court and also submit his lections for some of the imore an a score of new district judgeips recently created by Congress relieve tHe congestion of busiss in the Federal courts throught the country. First Killing Frost. Greenville, S. C. Nov. 21.?The st kOling frost of the season was iciflly recorded here today by the lited States weather bureau. With e freezing temperatures ice was und in the open. The temperature opped 30 points from, yesterday noon to 8 o'clock this morning, mistering 33 degrees during the jht. \ DGE W. P. GREENE ' SENDS 'EM TO GANG Anderson, S. C. Nov,* 21.?Thej ind of Special Judge William Greene, of Abbeville, on the liquor est km, was today very definitely tlined when two negroes, J. P. ince and Clarence Johnson, apared in the court of sessions here d plead guilty in liquor cases each them being sentenced to six nths imprisonment. Judge Green posed a sentence of twoi years on B. Wright, a negro, who plead ilty to charges of housebreaking d larceny. CONTRACT IS AWARDED adway to Be Constructed in Greenville County. Columbia, Nov. 21.?-The State ?hway Commission today announcthat J. T. Blassingame, of Green[e, had been awarded the contract approximately 15 2-4 miles of id work'm Greenville County from jveland to the North Carolina line, way of Caesar's Head, on a bid approximately $278,000. Acrding to the contract, 6 1-4 miles ? to be clay-bound macadam, the naming nine miles of top soil conuction. Work is to begin within ew days, and the contract calls for npletion of the roadway by the ing of 1924. Bids for this contract re opened several days ago. \S NARROW j ESCAPE rs. A. T. Jamison Rescued by Negro After Accident ' . Greenwood, Nov. 21.?Plunging er a 15 feet embankment into a ol, Mrs. A. T. Jamison, wife of '. A. T. Jamison, superintendent Connie Maxwell orphanage, narsvly escape reath shortly after o'clock thig afternoon when she >t control of a coupe she was iving. Negro digging sand in Hardlar creek, near the orphanages lore the accident ociurred rescuMrs. Jamison, She was uninjured t even being cut iby the shattered iss of the car. Two little girls, lly and Enrmie 'Lee Morgan, who sre with her, wece also unhurt, cept for a slight ?rut suffered by nmie Lee*. Mrs. Jamison; could not exulain w she lost control of her car She ,d started to Landcy college to ke the little girls for their music jsods, when in some, unaccountae way, the car swerved frorti the adway and plunged into the creek ad it not been for the timely nr.-al of the negro. Mrs. Jamison )uld have drowned. DEATH OF J. W. PRESCOTT Brother of Mr*. Covar of This City Diea in Greenwood. J. W. Prescott, 23 years of age, died this morning after a long illness at his home, 306 Merriman street. The cause of his death was given as I I typhoid fever. The funeral party left the chapel of Howard B. Ellis this morning at 9 o'clock for Edgefield, where the funeral will be conducted sometime tomorrow. Mr. Prescott is survived by his wife and one small daughter. He is also survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Prescott of Edgefield, and the following sisters ancl brothers: Mrs. A. B. Covar, Abbeville; Mrs. Rubenstein, Augusta; Misses Alice, Lennie, Margie, . Frances, Cornelia and Sarah Prescott, all of Edgefield, S. F. and Harold Prescott of Edgefield.?Index-Journal, 21st. DEPOSITS 'IN BANKS SHOW STEADY GAINS \ Greenwood, Nov. 21.?Dieposjits in local banks increased by $200,ooo during the past 30 days and have been steadily increasing throughout the fall months figures obtained from banks here show. Greenwood bankers declare that thig indicates improving conditions. One banker stated yesterday that the increasing growth of bank dopos its clearly pointed to a gradual return to normal in this section. Bank ers state that the increas in bank deposits in Greenwood) during the past three months would amount tc soveral hundred thousand dodlars. ' THEY WERE BURNING WITH FOOTBALL FEVER Pottsville. iPa., Nov, 21.?Severs, thousand persons a xa( football gam* at Coaldade, near here, yesterday refused to desert th? 'game to fighi a fire when the alarm was turnec in and as a resuQr a house situatec in a sparsely settfled section of th< borough was destroyed. Appeal* were made at the game for firemar to respond, but not one budget Coaldale tied Shenandoah sui and six. I ov ^1 I New Rat I t; H Plaid or ? with or I $18.00 $20.( J PAR* i SflHflBHDHHflHHBB WA / ..F ANNOUI ( BIG AUC 94 Mrs Jas. 15 BIRTH NOTICE. i Born to Mr. and Mrs. Johnn; Finley, November 17, 1922, daughter, Esther Lee. i Holiday Decorations. I OoWs fiv? and ten cents store ' dressed up in holiday attire thes ( days. It begins to look like Chris mas and Santa Claus there. SIDNEY J. CATTS IS FOUND NOT GUILT Pensacola, Fla., Nov. 21.?Sidnf 1 J. Catts, former Governor ht th * State, was found not guilty by i jury in Federal Court here toda s which tried him on a charge of peoi 1 age. ' The jury deliberated only nir - minutes. The former Governor wi i alleged to have held two negroe i Ed Brown and John Henry Roger I in bondage on his farm, after the 1 had been pardoned from lifetinr sentences during hi3 term of office. ERCOj flans and I HE BI6 ROOMY K Blanket lined; also pis without Belts. All fair] )n $9? sn $25.1 /v/ v Y""w TCH : j CEMENT j HUM SALfc l >. Cochran's | WOULD REDUCE RATES /* 'e Senator Smith and Others Mgjim B On the Bill. Washington, Nov. 2L?rEenAar % D. Smith and other Senators of BEfe- ' eral tendency, not confine! to tft*is farm bloc, at a conference tafljiy?;e greed to prepare and press a 1318* t- reduce freight rates <m finiiTiiiiiii ifl# . V necessities of life, such as peiaMHfc farm products, clothing; shoes*, jgm~ ' ;?% ceries, etc., and also a "biB far Mm. % l*| Y extension of market reports bj mfm . ^ and telegraph. It yfas further dto- '. M sy cided to push measures for tte is mendment of the Esch-Cumnu* Jfefc- ' a so as t1 abolish .the present ubpiy charge o? 50 per cent exacted If i- Railroads on pullman tickets ail a* as to provide for the sale cf nfcle age tickets to commercial traveftoiL ; s? There is $50,000 worth of dMfr. '>?? Sj brass on the Lusitania. ? ' ^ ie A machine that d&gs, -sotti^ 'tUL ^ ^ sacks potatoes is now in use. Ill) 1 K Jlsterettes I IND. B lin lined; m [y priced. P 00 and $30.00 ^