The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-07
Picked Up on the Square.

1t looks outrageous that builders should
be allowed SO much Of our Sidewalks ana
streets to handle brick, sand, lumber ana
claY Trinity street is a mess, when all 0l
that excavation and clay handling should
have been confined to one, small spot as IN
cities. Citizens have some rights To- the
sidewalk and they should be respected hut
the building material for the new stores
on Main street will soon cover the entire
street sidewalks and all. The city author
tiles should have required the erection OF Il
covered passage way on the sidewalk.
The sidewalks should 1t least have been
cleared for church-goers.
Every citizen of Abbevlle should do his
full part towards securing the electric
road This is the particular time for Able
vile to do her level best. If we get the
road it will mean more than one million
dollars in cash for this dear old town. a
town cannot stand still; it will either go
forward or backward certain. Arc We 60
ing forward? | was aStOniShed to learn
that some people in Abbeville would not
subscribe one cent to stock in the road
and some would only take 81, 900, and one
firm signified their Willingness TO take
500 and take it out in hauling. The three
classes mentioned have made fortunes out
of Abbeville people but cannot see that this
greatest of all enterprises will help the
town. These same people have never help
cd the town and / am sure the town would
be far better of if they lived in Georgia.
If the road comes to Abbeville the few en-
terprising and progressive people who are
always trying to do something for the up
building of the community will deserve
the credit and the reward which is sure to
follow.
Say! please let me know what has be-
come Of the new cotton mill project. |
hope your valuable paper will advertise
for this lost opportunity, and il you hear
anything let me know. If the sO-called
promoters can't handle the proposition
they should stand aside and let some gen.
/uine business men build the mill
What about our water supply? Nearly
two months ago we We're asked to boil wa
ter for two or three days and everything
would be all right. 1t looks like downright
negligence on the part of somebody. There
is one thing certain, the water bills for the
past month should be very light. Wake
up, sleeping city fathers.
Would it not be good idea for some one
to look alter our expensive school houses
and see that they don't leak and that gut
terS, conductors, &c, are kept in repair:
And please get somebody to take down
that little so-called flag at half mast on the
High School building.
Recently l have made careful inspcc,,
tiOn of our splendid City Hall building and
was surprised to find that it is being
abused and neglected. The cutters leak
and the walls are being injured. The ROOF
leaks some. In the opera house many OF
the seats are broken. Our good Mayor
must look after these things and correct
them. The janitor service there is not
good. If that fine building was in the
North it would be kept as neat as pin.
The Southern road gets as much freight
and passenger business from Abbeville as
the Seaboard, but they don't treat us right.
The little dinky coaches we are forced to
ride in with worn out seats and burnt out
lamps are an outrage, and we should not
submit to it. One citiZep forced the com
pany to pHt two lights at the depot, but
two more are sadly needed. Before these
lights We're put in it was as dark as Egypt
there at night. That little station belongs
at Darraughs and any other town would
have had better one long ago.
Have we no Industrial League or some
thing of the sort to help? Where are the
young men?