The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-21

does not wait until a graduate ha:
attained such distinction that he doe:
not need the assistance of his alma
mater before giving him the kindes
and the most helpful assistance
Erskine is always anxious to give
helping hand TO every student. ever
as it is ever ready to see and tt
recognize his undeveloped worth.
VICTORIES IN PEACE.
The failure of the valor of our heroi,
soldiers is acknowledged. But on tn
foundation of their military failure
we have built in peace that of which
we know our fathers, if they ma.
look down upon us from their hom'
beyond the stars, are proud, even as
we are proud of the heritage Of theil
heroism in war. Their undyine
fame and their imperishable renowr
rest today like a halo of glory or
these classic grounds.
aRowTH OF THE SURROUNDING
COUNTRY.
Donaldsville is now a big town anC
Honea Path is almost a city.
In the long ago there was but ont
house between Donalds and Homes
Path, and but one from Donalds tt
Hodges. Now, the number Of ele
CANT houses along either road would
seem to indicate that there will soon
be a continuous town from Bolton to
Greenwood; and on to Ninety-Six.
Nearly all the road from Donalds
to Due West is lined with the dwell
ings of the best and the most pros
porous citizens.
A great cotton mill has been built
at Ware Shoals, and at Bolton and
Honea Path are other cotton mills
Greenwood has two cotton mills in
operation, and two others are being
built. Ninety-Six has one cotton
mill.
Cotton Mills have been built al
Abbeville and at Calhoun Falls.
AS an evidence of the prosperity
of the farming interests, the number
of stores has been greatly increased tt
supply demands of the people.
Farming lands in thirty years have
gone up from four, six, eight, and
ten dollars an acre to forty and al
the way up to one hundred dollars
an acre.
Hundreds of nice farm houses have
been built, and thousands of acres O.
former waste lands are now pro
ducing the best of crops.
Since Democratic reconstruction
the Savannah Valley Railroad ha.
been built. The G. & w. G railroad
now runs the entire length of wha'
was then the lower part of Abbevill'
County. The S. A. L.. railway ha!
been built across the county. And
railroad now runs daily trains be
tween Donalds and Due West.
LOOKING TO THE RISING SUN.
If our orators were disposed tx
look more to the rising sun than tt
the setting sun, they might find il
Due West such men as R. S. Gallo
way who is the first printer in all thu
land to build a railroad, or they
might look to R. G. BroWnlee Wht
by integrity, good judgment anc
business methods, has ama5sed
fortune, and who may at no distant
day add to the material and indus
trial wealth of the country by build
inga cotton mill. There is A. 5
Kennedy, prosperous bunker, with
character as high as the highest, aat
d heart as good as the bet.
Did any of the orators who nave
for the t%housandth time repeated TIT
names OF theimmOrtal trio-Calhoun
McDufi,, Pettigrue-ever hear o
our neighbors Joseph Haddon, }. 9
TribDle and Thomas Uldrick? Ii
their ignorance these speakers haV'
never mentioned the maine OF Franz
Ellis, whose apples are not inferior II
those with which Mother Eve tempt
ed your grandfather. The apple
which Mr.. Ellis grows are good tn
whole year round. Shne being win
ter apples for summer stomachs.
, Did any of these orators eve
tell the people that Samuel j.. Wake
field, by improved methods of farm
ing, by deep blowing, by intelligen
, use of fertilizer, and by the appllca
ton of energy, has astonished hi
neighbors in showing the fertilit.
and the value of Abbeville Count,
lands? Did any man who feel
bound on every public occasion t.
kiss the feet Of the immortal tri
ever tell the people that Samuel j
Wakefield, in an agricultural center
far removed from railroads, hat
successfully built and proftabiy man
aged the best oil mill in all thi
country? Did any of the worship
pers of the immortal statesmen
ever tell the people that Samue
J. Wakefield had been of more VALUE
to the country than a thousan(
politicians who never did a
much as to make two blades of gras
grow where only n grew before
Did not the lands of the immorta
trio, become almost a barren waste
How is it in reference to the lands
about Wakefield's hOme?: Say moi
thou, What is the cause that the
former days were better than these:
for thou dost not enquire wisely con-
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