The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-01-18
ABBEWLLE-GREENWOOD CONTROVERSY
The Fine Points of the Two Rival Cite:
Cities with Their Weaknesses, as
Seen by Two Small Boys
Travelling on
Sunday

What were you all doing with the
lights out?''
"Oh, Mr.. Anderson, he was the
man which was talking to Mr..
Sproles on the telephone. He could
tell Mr.. Sproles was in his "nighties"
by the way he talked and shivered
over the telephone. Soon as Mr..
Anderson knowed that the lights was
out in Greenwood as we'll as Able;
vile he jist sat down, my mama
said she knew, and commenced to
try to fix up a plan to buy new
rabbit for the park. She says she
supposed that Mr.. Anderson ex-
pected the housewives, that's what
she called 'en, to rub the back of a
black cat and get light to see by in
stead of getting on the job. But my
papa said not to be too hard on the
old man, he is President of the Tri-
State. He learned to run for every
small Office that comes along from
the mayor and DR.. Neuffer, who used
to be on the town council, and park
commissioner. He said, my papa
did, that DR.. Gambrell is now not
only the Mayor, but a Trustee of
the Schools, member of the State
Board of Health, and does like a
doctor, and he said that if there was
any man who could fill as many Of
fees as the Bradley's, it was DR..
Gambrell, and pa said he had two
faces, too, but I don't know what he
meant by that. My mama says if
he's got another one she don't see
he don't wear it sometimes"
"Say," said the Greenwood boy,
81 was over at Abbeville onct and
I saw the funniest things you ever
saw. I was walking round the
square and I saw some big fat fig
ures dressed up like policemen
standing on the corners, every cor
ner, and at first I thought they were
policemen, but I went around and
came back and they was still stand
ing there, and I thought then they
was dummies to fool people, and a
man what was standing there when
I asked him what they were, said
Abbeville saves money by dressing
up these statutes like policemen
and makes the people behave, but I
walkd up to one and its eyes blink
ed after awhile and after awhile it
walked off, and after awhile, bout
dinner time, they all walked off, and
they was sure-enough policemen and
two of them was crippled, but my
pa says that is nothing, as crippled
policeman is fast enough for Abb
beville."
"Willie," the little Abbeville boys
mama called, ."Don't you hear the
train blowing for Abbeville, come to
methis minute"
And Willie hurried out to the
vestibule of the Seaboard train, and
the Greenwood boy called out, "Eh !!
Eh! getting off at a dead town."
And Willie shouted back, "Green-
wood amt got no coffin big enough
to bury it in"
And Willie's mother said, "How
do you manage to find every bad
boy on the train, at school, down
town, in church, and everywhere
else, and get acquainted with him?
Where did you get your love for
bad company; from your father, I
suppose"
And Johnny Yates pulled upon
the throttle, and the big Seaboard
Mogul rolled slowly away towards
the shops. Willie and his mother
walked up the hill, and Willie drop
ped behind and shook his fist at the
other boy, while the Greenwood boy
shook his fist at Willie land shouted
back, "Say, is that man who collects