The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1903-09-16
FOR SALE.
Fine Lot of Second Hand Plank Shut.
ters, Suitable for Barns, Stables
and Cow ShaGs.

The great wooden shutters on the Cour
House windows and the swinging iron BARI
| that hold them. are no doubt for So le at grea
| bargain to relic hunters or to persons DESIRING
to put ugly plank doors on their barns, saw
mills or COW sheds. Considering the thirty
years of service, and the wear and tear Incl
dent TO being opened and shut daily for thirty
years, they are In good condition, and would
last for d time on mule shed, Irrespective as
to contact with the heels OF these valuable
| servants.
1t is Intended that the Court House of Able
! VILE County shall keep pace with the progress
shutters may be removed from the hinges on
| which they have SO long hung, and that they
may henceforth protect cattle from the
| weather, and keep them In doors.
these shutters shall no longer remind us OF
! the fellow who wound his clock every night
for twenty years before he discovered that II
was an eight-day clock.
Away back In the Middle Ages, some peo.
pie imagined q wooden shutter made an Of
! 1ce burglar-proof, but since burglars can go
into great iron safes with about the same ease
| thatyou could break into cigar bog, faith in
wr 'den shutters has been somewhat shat
ter>'
tia Court House officials from force OF
hap. IL cling to their old job Of opening
and closing their grea plank shutters every
| we know, ought to be safely locked by one OF
| the most improved time locks" We refer
particularly to the Supervisors Office. where
lot OF valuable irons are stored. The sort,
| for instance, that are broken off OF the road
| scrapes. II less skilled burglar than an ex-
pert could get into that Office, a ton OF old
iron might be sold next day to Mr.. s. F.
Cromer. who has paid for scrap iron price 80
high as to almost induce the iron founders to
make him shipment. II 1t were not for the
| scrap Iron In the Supervisors office, there can
be no doubt that all the shutters that give the
Court House barn-like appearance could be
thrown on the market. The Bh utters on the
Court House. however. are not quite as large
and are not near so heavy as the doors on the
| warehouse. 1t will be remem bered that Capt.
Lyon was Supervisor for long time and
his office in the Court House, where 1t Is ..,s-
sible that he imbibed an idea of the impor-
tapce OF the plank shutter. At any rate,
when he went 70 put up doors on the ware
house, "he saw the Court House shutters, and
went two BETTER" Instead of one ply OF
| plank as In the case OF the Court House shut
| ters, he made the doors OF the warehouse
three ply, and then drove perhaps @ few
thousand nails into them TO bind them to-
gether az solid mass
1t is fair TO presume that the warehouse
manager would refuse to sell the door shut
tiers OF that Institution, but we feel quite GER
| tain that deal could be made for the Court
House shutters. Intending purthasers ought
| to apply early, as the.supply Is limited. These
| shutters are the only relics OF the antedelu.
Wan age hereabout. For further particulars,
apply to g. N. Nick les, Coun ty Supervisor.