The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-01-16
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1901.
The Minutes OF Synod.

The Minutes OF Synod.
The Minutes Of the meeting Of Synod have
been received, just nfty.six days since Synod
adjourned. They are very full and make q
ought to have q copy. From a cursory ex.
animation we would Judge them to be in the
main correct. We have discoved no errors
published By Mr.. Hugh Wilson. A6beviiIe,
tive and well printed. The statistical work
is particularly fine; The Clerks and the Z,
we had gotten them q little earlier our thanks
would be more cordial. Would 1t not be q
good idea to put the printing OF the Minutes
him responsible? Delay and confusion are
likely to follow when two men living in diff.
ferent towns have charge Of the matter OF
course we cannot afford TO wait fifty six days
We are requested by the Second Clerk to
say that he has sent the mailing list TO Mr..
Wilson, the publisher OF the Minutes and
that all persons who wish 10 secure copies OF
the Minutes will please write to Rev. James
Boyoe, Stated Clerk, Due West, 3. CAS-
sociate Reformed Presbyterian.
We sincerely thank the Associate Reform
ed Presbyterian for the above kindly words.
We think we have done an honest Job, and
we are sorry for the delay. We assume our
pro rata share Of the blame for tardiness,
which occurred almost wholly because of
misunderstanding.
Ordinarily, an Office like that of the Press
and Banner can get out such job as the
Minutes In q very short time.
In order that the work in future may be ex-
pedited, we would suggest:
That the printer to whom the contract may
be hereafter awarded, be required to furnish
printed copies Of the reports 10 lay on the
desks OF the members at the meeting OF
Synod.
The type can be left standing. while the
proof can have the most careful scrutiny
by the respective committees, and every
error may be marked
These printed copies, say 100 bound togeth-
or, would not appreclably increase the cost.
Perhaps So or sS would cover the entire cost OF
furnishing 100 copies Of all the reports. includ.
ing the statistical tables.
Besides securing advance sheets OF the
printed reports at q nominal cost, the work OF
printing the finished copies Of the Minutes
would be greatly advanced.
We again assure the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian ofour high appreciation of any
kindness to this Office. When the editor OF
this paper was mnch younger than he is
today, he left the parental roof to learn 10 set
type In that Office. which was much smaller
Office then than 1t is today. 1t was q second
hand outfit, which printed The Hamburg
Republican in the early forties, and later
printed The Ensign OF Liberty, or the Wicked
One Revealed, by Samuel Jordan, at his home
In the lower part of this county. The mate.
rial, consisted Of q few cases OF Long Primer
and Brewer, half dozen galleys. A stone that
had an inscription to the memory OF dead
person, was turned face down, and did duty
as an imposing stone. A Smith hand press
completed the outfit, all Of which we under
stood was bought by the founders OF the Ers.
kline Miscellany, Rev. J. o. Lindsay and Rev
j. I. Bonner. for 1926. The A. r. P. Presbyte-
rian wss first known by that name. Its
second name was the Due West Telescope.
After the war 1t became the Associate Reform.
ed Presby yterisn, and we presume that name
will hold good forever.
Since tie war new type and modern presses
have taken the place Of the old outfit, and
much work beside printing the paper, Is now
done by the Office.
The old printing ONCE was an exceedingly
modest building when compared with the
elegant brick ONCE, from which the paper is
issued today. It was a one story wooden
AFFAIR. weatherboarded, but had no ceiling on
the sides. Rough plank, laid on the joists,
made the overhead ceiling.
In the Winter the printers moved their
stands close to the stove, and kept warm In
that way. 1t was impossible to warm the
Office and Of course good press work could not
be done. The editor apologized in the paper
for the bad print, and assigned the cold
weather as reason. Col. D. Wash. Hawthorn
in reading that notice said: Ut ia strange
that the cold weather does not interfere with
the printing OF other papers than the Tele.
scope and the Abbevilie Banner" In those
days. we wet or sprinkled the paper. and we
have seen the sheets frozen together. We
had stove OF huge proportions. On one
occasion the boards of the roof caught fire
This editor, who was the "devil" then. ran 10
Mr.. Bonper's house, knocked at the door OF
his room. When bidden to come In, /
found him shaving. Upon being told that the
Office was aflre. he dropped his rasor, and ran
to the office crying "ire. fire; boys, why
don't you boiler fire?' It seemed funny to
me then 10 see dignified preacher run. A
ladder was near by. Some one ran up II
to the roof, and soon pulled off the burning
boards. and the building and its contents
: were saved
Although the men whose upright lives gave
tone and character to the town at that time
are not there now. yet we hold the old town
In sweet remembrance. Good men have
taken the places OF the good men whose careers
are ended. and whose records have been made
up.
The more modest buildings OF those dayi
have generally given place to more moderr
and more imposing structures.
At that time the trade at the stores wa!
almost nothing as compared 10 the busine esl
which is done there today. The lien business
was unheard OF then. Corn and bacon wer'
not bought and sold at the stores In 1851, ex
ceptin an occasional bariar trade The peo
sie who wanted hams bought them from
we'll to-do farmers. who fed other parts of thu
bacon to their negroes and sold the hams
Ezekiel Rasor, rich farmer on Saluda, sole
hams there every year to the people Of Du
West.
An Outrage.