The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-04-01

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writing, he declared, SO he could sign
it in the presence of subscribing wit
nesses.
But to return to the medicine part
of the story. On Saturday after the
vestibule had "ran" the misery"
arose with all the gentlemen again.
At this time Commissioner Stallings,
of the Southern Express was again
called on, and it was found that there
was a "Rx" in stock, but it could
only be taken out by resident of
the STATE a taxpayer and the head
of a family. Col. Kerr insisted that
he would call on Doctor Jones Miller
and get an order for the prescription,
as he said, now that the medicine was
on hands, he was sicker than he had
ever been when not full of pecans.
So he called on DR.. Miller and got
the order, but Commissioner STALL
! ings turned him down cold as he
said he had heard from several peo-
pie on Greenville street that the Col
onel was not the head of his family,
and being a married man himself he
was prepared to believe it. 1t was
then suggested that Uncle Jim was
certainly the head of his family but
the commissioner said "No,"' that he
would not take any mans word for
it that he was the head of the family
if he was married and his wife still
living. However, the law was
brought into play by COL. Kerr, who
consulted Judge Hollingsworth, and
appeared with an opinion from him
stating that he had phoned the Kerr
Mansion and as Mrs. Kerr was down
street and could not be gotten at
home on the telephone, this made
Furniture Kerr the Acting Head of
the family in her absence. Owing to-
this fortunate occurrence the medi-
cine was finally extracted from the,
Express Office.
Hoping to keep anyone but sick
people from knowing that it was on
hands, and for fear that some few
people suffering with neuresthenia
might imagine they were sick and
want a dose, when they were not, the
gentlemen in charge darted into the
newspaper Office of Brother Horton,
of \the Baptist persuasion, took: the
outside cover off the package and
wrapped it in a Medium. But this
didn't work. By the time, they came
out the back door, and passed up the
alley next to Col. Barksdale's store.
Uncle Jim and "Old Hill" spied them
and yelled out, "Hey, there" and
old man Mcmillan of Dyson, S. G.,
was not long in coming up. 1t wasn't,
long in fact that it looked like one O.
Sparks Brothers young elephants
had gotten loose and that all the lit !
tie negro boys in town were follow
ing it.
The last we saw Of the procession
it had switched into the buggy busi-
ness presided over by Uncle Jim. We
heard that Uncle Jim got lost among
the buggies and wagons piled up in !
that place of business against the
next fire, while patients Kerr and
Marston got lost in some of the ra-
vinues Of the rear part of the. stable,
living South. of the buggy business
chiefly because when they would Ar
rive at a certain corner they were
unable to tell whether they were
still a-coming. in, or a-going out, ]
| Oils. sMarsson and Kerr : attended
Eehufehsaf aha. Presbyterian CHURCH
Sunday morning, each looking as
pioast asean elder, Of forty years
standing. Col. Marston did not get
out at night, but brother Kerr was
there, nodding his head occasionally
as if in agreement with what Mr..
Pratt was saying. At least, we have
no doubt but that he would have con-
tended that this was the cause if, in
the hiatus between the first point
and the second point, and between
other points, he had not snored out
so loud as to wake deaf man on the
other side of the church.