The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1916-11-01


there, and Wallace is a cotton buyer
and is the magistrate at that point.
Time had dealt gently with both of
them, or their wives have taken good
care of them. We found Senator
Tillman in his garden setting out
lettuce plants. He had just been up
to Greenwood to see his new grand
daughter, at the home Of his son,
Hon. q. C. Tillman, and he had come
home, as a Chester lawyer once
wrote, Feeling his oats" and carry
ing a basket full of lettuce plants,
which some Industrious parties were
planting out, while the Senator gave
the directions with variations"
Mrs. Tillman was there, and she
took great pleasure in showing US
about the place. She is really pref
ty, if we might call lady of her age
pretty-nothing else expresses it. She
was as happy as a girl sixteen years
old, and as care-free in her manners.
We understand why the Senator has
succeeded so well in life, he has fol-
lowed Mrs. Tllman's advice, we
know, though we would gamble on
the fact that he would not admit it..
At any rate, we were glad to see him
again, and his old friends in Abbe-
vile will be glad to know that he is
still Ben Tillman, and that he is a
live wire yet. T..
"Pink" Wood. -, =
One of the big men in that section
of the state is Pink Wood. He was
born and reared at Johnson, in Edge
field county. His father died when
he was a small boy, leaving the fam
lily in Strengthened circumstances.
Pink had no education and there was
little apparently in the future for
him. But he grew to manhood, and
he dreamed dreams, and he awoke
to put them into execution. He paid
off the debts incurred by his father
in a lingering last illness. He en-
listed in the battle Of life, and he
fought well. He saw millions of
dollars being lost in the wasted power
of the Savannah sweeping on to the
sea, and he decided as Mr.. Wright so
we'll expressed it Ito harness the
great river, and he did harness it,
and he is driving it today. He is the
head of the great three million dollar
company which has spanned the
river with a twenty-eight foot dam,
and he is making it power for pro-
gress in that section. The people all
love him. The very people who are
suing his company, come to court,
hunt him up, shake hands with him,
take dinner with him, and love him
the same as the others. He is q
leading business man in Augusta,
where the people all know him to
respect him. He represents the hopes
and the possibilities Of the boys of
America, and his career which is just
beginning, shows what brains and
character and work can accomplish.
The Newspapers.
Edgefeld has two of the best of
the county weeklies in the State
The Advertiser, presided over by Mr..
J. L. Minis, and the Chronicle, the
old paper of Col. Bacon, now edited
by his nephew, Col. Wigfall Cheat
ham. We went through their plants
where we found everything looking
prosperous.
Abbeville to the Front.
AS it is in most towns, wherever
you 60, you find Abbeville people at
the head of affairs, in Edgefeld,
Major Thomas J. Lyon, is the head
of the City Schools. He is an Able
vile buy. The principal Of the High
School is James Neel Bonner of Abb
beville county. The engineer and
conductor on the train into Edge
field are Abbeville men, Chalmers
Hughes is the engineer and Capt.
Moore, a brother of Editor G. E.
Moore, Of Honea Path, is the conduc-
tor. The agent is Mr.. Townsend,
formerly of Due West, who married