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RUMORS DENIED BY
PROHIBITION BOSS
CALLS . ON PATRIOTIC CITIZENS
TO SET AN EXAMPLE
F LAW ENFORCEMENT?NO
CHANGE IN SOUTH CAROLINA
FORCE CONTEMPLATE
Oolumbia, Dec 9?iSpecificial denial
of rumors that changes had
beern made or are contemplated in
Soatfc Carolina prohibition enforcement
forces was mad? here
afternoon by Major Koy a.j
Hayaes, federal prohibition commissioner,
after he had delivered an
address to the people of Columbia
in the First Baptist Church, the
crux of Which -was, that there
stytald ibe strict enforcement ?f all/
laWrs, otherwise thero would be
weakening in the .powers of the
government.
Major Haynes told neiwspaper
men that he invariably took the advice
and recommendation of his di- 1
visional chiefs, and no advocacy of
changeg in the enforcement person- '
nel in South Carolina had been
made, and ho contemplated no such
changes in the future.
The prohibition corrrmission <r, 1
accompanied by Judge James G.
Britit, chief counsel; Sherman A.
Cu?eo, assistant director and Col.
L. G. Neutt, acting chief of general 1
prohibition agents, who are making
a tour of the South rn tightening
up prohibition forces arrived at Colunrfbria
this morning. After a conference
with .prohibition agents, a
lurwbeon at the Jefferson Hotel
tendered by the South Carolina anti-saloon
league and the address '
this afternoon, the party loft over
the Seaboard for 'Washington.
While hero Major Hayncs had conferences
with State, county and
municipal peaco and enforcement
oftcere.
In his address Major Haynes was
outspoken in his appreciation of
tho cooperation 'given federal authorities
*in the enforcement of the
Volstead act (in South Carolina and
ke spoke feelingly of the entire
Swxth as tho pioneer in the "dry"
rorement.
He went into a detailed description
of the machinery of enforcement
and said that wonderful success
had been achieved in a short
wtoile.
(Major Haynes pleaded with the
men in the higher stratum of society
to lead at example in respect
for the law, asked that they not
patronize bootleggers and abjured
them to hold aloft their patriotic
"'observance of all laws.
He proclaimed that obedience to
the law is the fundamental of
which the stability of the government
must rest, othersewise there
wjll (be chaos.
IN UFARrH OF HTAI.TH
Emory Penney, who has gone
west in search of health arrived in
Prescott, Arizona, on a Sunday
morning to find the men busy cutting
wood and the* women washing
and hanging out clothes, although
the ground was covered with snow.
Mr. Penney stopped long enough in
San Antania to ''have dinner and
take a flivver rdo with Bofo Hemphill."
MONEY FOR STAMPS
About $50,000 is being paid out
bj the Abbeville post office in War
Savings Stamps. These are to be redeemed
before January 1st and post
offiee authoritiee are busy cashing
. in the stamps.
MR. MARTIN SICK
Mr. T. W. Martin, who runs an
enterprising grocery store on South
ifafn efrppt. has gv>na to the Ches
ter Hospital for treatment. He was'
accompanied on th^ trip by hisj
friend Dr. Calvert.
CONDITIONS GOOD
IN TRADE CIRCLE
GRAIN RATHER QUIET, BUT
PRICES CONTINUE TO HOLD
UP WELL?RAILROAD TRAF
FIC AT EXTRAORDINARY
HIGH LEVEL
VavIT rior> 1 A Pan/^rfc
concerning the fundamental conditions
underlying the financial markets
continued to be satisfactory
the past week. Railroad traffic is
holding at an extraordinary high
levol considering the season.. Car
loadings during the week endeid
November 25, / totalled 955,000
cars, which represents an increase
of 282,000 over the corresponding
week a year ago, and 152,000 over
the same week in 1920.
No cessation is apparent, meanwhile,
in the steel industry's high
rate of output, operations still approximating
80 per cent of war expanded
capacity. Pig iron pricee
have declined further, but trade
reports state that both buyers and
sellers are now feeding for the bottom
of this market. Steel prices for
the present remain firm and consumers
are showing slow disposition
to carry I reasonable stocks,
feeling that another coal strike
?a?4. i ~ j
ucjit ycax is juvt wyvuu vuc
bounds of possibility. Although the
total amount of coal produced was
cut into by the recent' holiday, it appears
that the bituminous output is
continuing at daily rate corresponding
to 11,000,000 tons a
w?ek.
Final figures for the earnings of
class one railroads during October
show the total net for the month
amounted to $85,000,000, which
while some $25,000,000 below the
total in the same month' a year ago,
when earnings were unusually good
is still $27,000,000 better than the
showing in September.
A recession of about 2 per cent
in . the ratio of reserve of the combined
federal reserve system ibringsi
that figure down to 74.3 per cent.
This ig slightly lower than any other
figure recorded this year, but is
still high enough to demonstrate
very amplef supplies of commercial
credit. The -decline in ratio is very
largely a reflection of a further increase
in rediscounts which in
turn measures the sustained industrial
movement and the preparations
for the holiday trade. Money
rates remained steady and no material
disturbance is expected to attend
the large government transaction
centering around the tax
date.
With the census reporting cotton
ginnings to December 1, at 9,318,000
bales, the trade is more
than etver inclined to view that the
crop will amount to slightly less
than 10,000,000 bales, instead of
the 9,000,000 bales which werei discussed
a fe/w weeks ago.
VISITING AT THE SHOALS
Miss Eugenia Swetenberg and
Miss Marnicj Reese spent Saturday
and Sunday at Ware Shoals with
Miss Margart and Dick Swetengorg.
They enjoyed the sights of
the city.
"MISS MAY" SICK
Miss May Robertson has succumbed
to the prevailing fin and
has been confined to her homes
since Friday. Misg May is a general i
favorite in town and everyone
wishes for her a speedy, recovery.
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VISITING MISS BRADLEY
\
Mrs. B. I. Childs and son, Mr.
James Childs, visited over Sunday
with Miss Irene Bradlev at the
home of Mrs. Tutt.
v Roman custom forced a son of a
dead man to conduct the funeTal service.
DRYSIN COMPLETE
CONTROL OF HOUSE
WETS ARE ABLE TO MUSTER
ONLY SEVEN VOTES TO
CRIPPLE ENFORCEMENT ACT
FRIENDS OF PROHIBITION
MAKE CLEAN SWEEP
Washmo-bon. Dec. 9.?Friends of
prohibition, in complete control in
the House, made a clean sweep today
in knocking out amendments
to the prohibition section of the
j treasury supply bill which they
claimed were designed to weaken
enforcement of the Volstead law..
i Standing alone at times, Representative
Hjill, Republican,. Maryland,
sought to limit the money
spending actiyfltiea of the prohibition
unit, but his proposals were
thrown out ibodfily after thirty minutes
of bitter debate, in which the
manner of the law's enforcement
wag commended and condemned.
Numeroue references were made
to the annual address to Congress
delivered earlier in the day by
President Harding, and there was
vigorous applause when m amber*
recalled that the President had
said the eighteenth amendment was
her^ to stay.
The bill stood Hke a stone wallj
against attacks by Mr. Hills group,!
which often included only himself.
It had not reached the point of
passage tonight because of an
agreement to defer until tomorrow
action on a provision for substituting
fast power presses for hand
presses which the government's
money long has been printed at the
Bureau of Engraving.
The biggest vote against the prohibition
group was seven, that number
of members supporting an
'amendment! by Representative
Tinkham, Republican, Massachusetts,
providing that men employed
in enforcement work should be appointed
from the civil service,
against fifty-six in opposition.
GOVERNOR IN ABBEVILLE
Abbeville was honored (Friday
afternoon by a visit from Governor
and Mrs. Wilson G. Harvey. They
came as the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
C. D. Brown and while hetre were
shown many of the sights of the
city.
Mrs. Harvey as Miss Waring
visited in Abbeville and 'one of the
chief points of interest to her was
the Ancrum house where in days
gone by she had attended many
pleasant dances. ' Mr. and Mrs.
Stevenson were charmed to have
them call and Governor Harvey and
hig wife enjoyed seeing thei handsome
residence. Mrs. Harvey, while
on the square, renewed many pleasant
acquaintances.
Abbevillei was glad to have the
Governor for even so short a visit.
BOARD MEETING
Dr. C. C. G&mbrell leayes tonight
for Columbia where he goes
to attend the last meeting of the
State Board of Health for this
year.
WITH THE DOCTORS
Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Neaiffer le{ft
today for Pinehurst, N. C., where
they will attend the meeting of the
Seaboard SJurgeona. They will enjoy
several trips visiting Norfolk,
Lynchburg and Richmond.
CALLED AWAY
Miss Reejp was called to Cheraw
last week to attend the funeral of
her friofnd, Miss M>y. Sho returned
to the city today.
In the sale of the effects of Col.
James T. Roberts of Anderson,
who died from thej effects of an automobile
injury, are listed forty
| well trained fox dogs.
STERN CAMPAIGN I
ON BOLL WEEVIL
LARGER SCALE FOR NEXT SEA- ,
SON?PRICES OF CALCIUM
ARSENATE AND SUPPLY ENGAGING
ATTENTION OF GOV
ERNMEWT.
Washington, Dec. 10.?Next season's
campaign against the boll wee- ,
vil promises to be on a larger scale I
than in any season heretofore. Plans <
i of the department of agriculture as :
j outlined /by its cotton' council, are <
being widely developed. Among ,the i
methods for control of the boll wee- 1
vil which will be used next season <
is that recently announced by the <
Florida state plant Vard which the ]
cotton council has recommended be
given a thorough trial throughout
the cotton belt. ]
The present price of calcium arsenate
is engaging the attention of
the government, an attempt will be
made to increase the supply for next
season's fight on the boll weevil.
A meeting for this purpose will be
held in New York next Wednesday.
It will be attended by givernment '
experts, including Dr. J. K. Haywood,
chairman of the insecticide and fun
gicide board of the \<lepartment 01
agriculture, and other officials of
that department; C. R. Delong, formerly
of the chemical division of the
department of commerce and now 1
head of the dye and chemical division
of the tariff commission, and by
officials of the departments of interior
and commerce. The meeting
will be held after a two day session
of insecticide manufacturers and a
large number of experts in the in- j
dustry will attend the calcium ar-J
senate conference. The main topic]
for discussion at the conference will j
be the amount of white arsenate|
available for the manufacture ofj
calcium arsenate and whether by any j
means the production of this essen-|
tial in fighting th-; boll weevil can
be stimulated and enlarged.
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS
An+nmnihilA accidents ^ were the
order of the day Saturday, about
one o'clock a Ford driven (by D.
Ferguson run into a tree in front
of the Baptist church and Mr. Ferguson
had his face cut on the windshield.
Mr. Bob Simmons ran into a negro's
buggy Saturday night and
scattered the pieces around the
(marker square and Sunday Mrs.
Gulledge struck an electric light
pole near the Baptist church and
broke it off. Mrs. Gulledge wag not|
nuri,.
Saturday afternoon a car full of
boys had a smash! up near the Seaboard
shops and lotft a turned over
car in the road.
STILL LEAVING
The whole sale immigration
among the negroes continues,
twelye men and women leaving on
Saturday for Chicago and twenty
leaving Sunday for the same destination.
IN GREENVILLE
Miss Mary Milford and Gottlob
Neuffer went uip to Greenville Saturday
and saw the "show" at the
Opera House. Mrs. Minshall and
Misses Rachel and Susan Minshall
went with them. The home trip
furnished all the troubles usual
when driving a car.
RESPECT FOR JUDGE GARY
Among other marks of respect
shown Judge Frank B. Gary, was
that of the Abbeville Telephone!,
Co., which close|d down for five
minutes while the funeral sefvice
wa^ in ppogrqss at the Methodist ,
church. i
COTTON BELT SHOWS t
THE BEST RECOVERY
AGRICULTURAL SITUATION IS E
SLIGHTLY IMPROVEJD.?ABNORMAL
MOVEMENT FROM ,
FARMS TO TOWNS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
Washington, Dec. 10?The general
agricultural situation in the United c
States has improved slightly as indi- d
cated by the monthly agricultural t
review of the department of agri- r
culture.* Cotton and live stock prod- US
ucta prices, as well as prices of r
things fanners have to buy, have ris- <r
en slowly, the October price index
on ten farm products being 110 com- 1
pared with 100 for 1913.
"This has put a little money into g
the pockets of some faraers, put c
heart into many more, and has done t
both for those who cany farm pro- a
ducts through the channels of trade.' a
the erview says. ^ t
The price farmers pay for other J
than food products, according to the >
wholesale price index, has risen to t
169 compared with 100 to 1915. Thus j
a unit of farm products will purchase fi
35 per cent less of other commodi- (
ties as it would in 1919. i
November figures indicate an ab- f
normal movement of population from i
farm? to towns. a
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Agricultural conditions in the east|
are in relatively poor shape. Potato, >1
apple, hay and truck growers are }
thoroughly discouraged, the report t
says. Some poultrymen are doing ^
fairly well, but most dairymen are <
having all they can do to break even. 1
The cotton belt shows the best J
general recovery of any region as a t
whole. Cotton is very poor in many i
areas, but those having cotton to <
sell fairly good at present prices.
General business has been much stim- ^
ulated. j
.Farmers in the corn belt are some ,j
what encouraged a t the rise in grain ^
prices. A heavy fall run of hogs to .
market, as well as heavy movements <
of feeder cattle and sheep to farms, r
is reported. Wheat belt shippers have ,
been hampered by an almost unpTe- ,
cedented shortage of freight cars. >
Winter wheat stands are reported \
generally fairly good. Sheep men in {
the range country feel fairly good 1
at sheep, lamb and wool prices and ]
the outlook for next year is geneif- ,
ally considered favorable. j
MISSIONARY TO MEXICO. <
1
Rev. Henry E. Pressly is .giving up
his work in Tampa, Florida, as a
minister of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian church and will leave j
shortly after Christmas for Mexico,
where he will enter the Missionary
field.
A
Mr. Pressly is the youngest son of
Rev. Neil E. Pressly, and he was
' J J.
Dorn aim spent uic gicaiici yau i
his youth in Tampico. Dr. Neill
Pressly served the church in the
Mexican field for nearly forty years,
and it has long been the ambition
of his son to follow in his footsteps.
Rev. Henry Pressly knows the Mexican,
he knows his language and his
home life and he has a sympathy
and an understanding of hie short- ^
comings. Returning to Mexico is
like going . home again and his
friend# all over the state wish him
success and his family happiness in
their new home.
Rev. and Mrs. Pressly will come c
to Abbeville for a visit before leav- J
ing the states. f
a
greenwood doctors c
Y
Dr. Neal and Dr. Scurry were *
over from Greenwood Monday operating
at the hospital on a .patient
brought over on Friday.
u r? c 1 ' v.
ncrc trur i uuctM* u
Hon. and Mrs. Melvin J. Ashley
came down from Honea Path Saturday
and attended the funeral of
Judge Frank B. Gary at the Methodist
church.
IOAL COMMISSION
10 CALL MEETING
BEGINNING OF ENDEAVOR TO
PROCURE MUTUAL CONCESSIONS
IN INTEREST OF COMMON
GOOD -*-WOULD REACH
BASIS
Washington, Dec, 9.?Taking
ognizance of conditionB which inflirt,
nACGiWIl'fv A-f OTIAfV^I* WQ
ional coal strike in the ibstusmnous
aineg after April 1, the United > M
States 'Coal commfission today an?' ?jj
louneed that mine operators and ' $
rimers' union officials concerned
vould be invited to meet TVfffeb . it in
ffaskingfeon next week. , ? 1 :*|
The session would mark the be- ( . ^
ginning of an endeavor to "proure
mutual concessions in the in- .
erests of the common gofdf," the c:
announcement said, and wafc aeces- :'i
ary (because of "grave danger
hat another paralysis of the busiie%
of the country" is tanpendmg.
Action by the commission followed .
he adjournment this Week of a
odnt committee of ratine operators
md union officials, which net at
)hicago but faiiled to achieve a Satsfactory
preliminary arrangement
or wage negotiations which would (
is3ure continuance of operations .
iftexj April.
(Representatives of the United
nine w oncers 01 America in
Washington ware later informed . ,'r^
hat John L. Lewis its president,
vould not "be able to respond to the
:ommisstion's dnvita/tion /before
Thursday. It is expected that. con"erencea
on the sulbject will be
aken up then, and that the coannission
will proceed to executive
:onsideration of the situation.
Wage agreements, which now fix :jj|
>ay scales and working conditions
n the unionized coal fields, were
nade^at Cleveland last summer
ind Tun only to April 1, ibut contain
i paragraph prpviding for joint
committee meetings of the bitumiious
employers and the union to
consider terms of a wage contract
which might run after that date.
The committee created insluded for
ihe employers Phil iPenna, representing
Indiana operators; T. H. ' !ij
Watking for central "Pennsylvania;
S. N. Taylor for Southwestern operators
and others, while Mr.
L?ewis, Philip Murray, vice presilent
of the union, and William
3-reen, its secretary, represented
ihe men.
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MARY PARROTT INJURED
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-lad Both Legs Cut Off by Seaboard
Train No. 6 Today at Athens
Mary Parrott, colored, of Abbeville,
was run over and both legs leut
>ff in Athens . today at about 11 ?
>'clock as the Seaboard train No. 6
vas passing south of Barrow street.
Engineer Snipes and Fireman Filler
attempted to warn the woman
ind Engineer Howie stopped his
rain with his driving wheels still
>inning the woman to the track. She
ras conscious and was hurried to a
iospital for treatment.
The accident is greatly regretted
?y the Seaboard people.
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A SICK CHILD
Everett Rosier, the five year old
rhild of Mr. and Mrs. Prescott
3osier of Watte is very sick of
>neumonia. The child has been
lick for a month and has been unler
the care of a nurse. Pneumonia
las developed in both iungs and
he child is seriously ill.
COTTON MARKET.
Cotton on the local market today
irought 25%. Futures closed ->
? a a e *
Dec. __ z*.oo
Jan. 24.90
March 25.07
May 25.07 __
July ' 24.72
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