The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-10-24

lection at the BaptlSC CnuIcn' SoAP~
lent laid before the house a plan to
set a trap for suckers, and Col. Hor-
ton took the other end.
Looking to the end sought Col.
Kerr, who appointed himself presl-
dent of the new company, to be
known as the Kerr-Furniture-Rolllng-
Stock Talking-and-M -Medium-Publishlng
Company, issued on last Friday morn
ing the following commission to Vice.
President Horton:
"Reposing full faith in your ablll-
ty to bid, but with reservations on
YOUR being able to know how to DO
lit, hereby commission and empower
YOU to hitch up your Ford and travel
to the Pennell Land Sale, and having
arrived, to look wise, talk a good
deal, and when the bidding starts
run down all tracts and buy the high
est priced one offered. Having per-
formed this duty you will Immediate
ilv travel back to Abbeville, where
we will issue a check in payment
therefor, sending it around by Green
wood and Atlanta, and seeing our
banker upon it's return, when having
deposited the interest in the interest
taker, we will draw our note for the
purchase money, and let it work day
and night"
No sooner said than done. In fact
Col. Horton was on the ground while
it was still damp and had dug hole
to stand in to keep from slipping
down. He smoked nineteen cigar
cites before anybody else got to the
place of sale, and there fingered on
until Judge Ellis and Judge Holllngs-
worth, both psalm-singers, the one
looking pious, the other not, also ar
rived. He could hardly stand st:I!
until the fireworks opened but when
they did he was there with the oil to
lour on the troubled water. He
collared one of the first tracts offered
and Joined the bird-gang for home.
Col. Kerr had been on the anxious
lookout for him for seven hours
when he got back. He had stood on
every corner of the square several
times during the day, had stepped in
several great balls of blue mud, had
smoked so many cigars that it looked
like Mt. Calvary was on fire, and
then he had also taken "Co-cola'
with Will Barnwell and every other
unsuspecting wretch whom he had
been able to follow in to a drinking
establishment.
! At length the "buddies" were to-
gether, the report made, and the
president took the matter under con-
sideration. What would uncle, jim
say when he learned that his nephew
was also of the landed gentry Cogi-
tating and then meditating, he finally
announced that he would adjourn the
meeting until 9:55 the next morning
when the officers would 60 into exc
cutive session. That hour finally,
after a night of wild dreams, inter
spersed with sleepless moments, ar
rived. Col. Horton was there. He
had drawn up a few plans during
the night himself, and had thought
of putting them on the typewriter
but had not done so as he was some
what under the domination of his su-
perior officer, and wanted him to
talk first. When the minutes of the
former meeting had been read the
president announced that he would
like to have a profert of the land, but
Col. Horton said he had failed to FIND
out whether they had this at the
sale. Growing mighty wroth at this
the president ordered the vice-presi.
dent to start the Ford to smoking
and he would go down to the place
and find one for himself.
They arrived and an inspection Of
the terra 6rma, duly contracted for
commenced. Corp. Kerr found 89a
post oaks which he said were fine
for making mahogany furniture, and
enough poplars to make lining lum.
ber for his next lot of mahogany
wardrobes. He also saw spokes