The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-11-20
THE CITY OF ABBEVILLE.


Some Talk on the PrOspects-LoOk-
ing Backward. But Forging
Ahead.
Mr.. A. Did you know Wyatt Aiken had
been arrested?
Mr.. B. No, surely not
Mr.. A. Well, am only joking; he ought
to be arrested for living in slow place like
Abbeville.
Mr.. B. Why do you call Abbevile slow?
Mr.. A. Because 1t does not keep pace with
Mr.. b. Mention some.
Rock Hill, Anderson, Laurens, Elberton and
a host Of others.
not up with those towns?
Mr.. A. Certainly do.
Mr.. b. Well, we are not in debt like some
Mr.. A. We had better be then. 1t would
be better to 60 in debt little rather than
tall behind like we do.
MIR. b. What does Abbevill need?
Mr.. A. We need first OF all a few more pro.
gressive public-spirited men. do wish Sam
Jones would come over and iniuse into our
people some Of the spirit of his lecture upon
"GIt thar ELL" We need water works, elec.
trio lights. town hall, public library, a
town clock and q great many other things we
can have by pulling together. but right now
we need and must have water works,
Mr. b. Well, we have heap of style any
| way.
II.
something else besides style al this day and
time.
Mr. B. What do you think Ia the matter /?
Perhaps Abbeville Is poorer than some of the
places you mentioned.
Mr.. A. No, it is not. In proportion 10 its
size 1t is as we'll of as any OF them. I tell
you what the trouble Is. Some OF our people
-and those who have the most money at that
tually doubted whether the G. c. & N. K. r.
would be benefit to Abbeville. If 1t hadn 7
been for that railroad we would have fallen
Mr.. B. DO you really believe that H. would
pay US to spend money for water works. elec-
trio lights, town hall, and other things of
MIR. A. Certainly do People want to live
in live town. That's why people 60 to Al
lanta to live and If we don't have these up.
to-date conveniences they wont come here.
MIR. b. L don't believe you like Abbeville
any way.
Mr. A. Yes, | do. I think we have q fl.e
people. They are Intelligent kind hearted,
and liberal-but the trouble with them is that
they are not progressive. They have got TO
wake up if they want To get along.
Mr.. B. You must admit we have beautiful
churches.
MIR. A. Yes, that is true; but we need more
people TO fill them aud to build more of them.
Mr.. B. We have fine school house and q
splendid school.
Mr.. A. acknowledge that, but we should
Mr.. b. Mention some other things that you
think would help Abbeville.
Mr.. A. Why there are great many ways
in which we could build up the place. 4. l saw
a circular last week which Greenville had got-
ten out with illustrations and pictures show
ing the many advantages OF that city. We
ought to have something like 1t struck off for
Abbeville and should distribute 5000 copies
at the Atlanta Exposition. A week or two
ago / saw that Henry w. Watterson had de-
livered q lecture at Chester. Why can't we
have some distinguished lecturers at Able
Vile?
Mr.. b. Well what else?
Mr.. A. One OF our greatest needs Is unity.
We should all pull together. We should
unite and try to build up our place. We
should talk up our town and we should have
town worth talking up. TO use some slang
we should get q move on us-wo should get
a hump OH our back. Nobody can talk up an
easy going town no matter how pleasant a
place ii Is to live In. Junius.