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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
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HIGHWAY WORK IS RESUMED
r.derat Aid Undertakings Actively
Taken Up After Arm's''ce' Says
Secretary Houston.

ncI,vad i'm its program Of good
,,.1. construction by the war and
confronted nj the end OF mat period
nv condition OF badly rundown
HIGHWAYS the federal government, 60
o,'nrotinr with the highway depart
,io,,,s of the several states, has re-
.,,r,od tho vigorous prosecution of the
work and. says David T. Houston,
secretary of agriculture tlere is now
an snacioI obstacle to the cOnStruc-
zion in the different states Of the
Ir,ion Of those roads which serve the
greatcst economic needs. ID his an
nuoI report. Secretary Houston says:
Good roads are essential to the
rrospcritv and weIl-being OF urban and
rural communities alike. They are
prcre0ufSile for the orderly and sys-
, tcmatic marketing of farm products,
for the establishment OF satisfactory
ruroI schools. and for the develop
mont of q richer and more attractive
rural life. Recognizing these facts.
the fedora! government, through the
massage of the federal ala road act in
1916. inauguratcd a policy of direct
financial participation in road-building
ouerations in the various states. This
act appropriated $75OOO,OO0, to be
matched by an equal amount from the
states. for the construction of rural
most roads over u period of five years,
and $4,000 OO-$1 100000 b year for
10 vears-for roads within or partly
within the national forests II re-
ouircd each state to have responsible
central highway commission with the
rcoufsite powers and funds. All the
: states have complied with the terms
Of the act. although 1t was necessary
for them to enact additional legiSla
ton. or to amend their constitutions
to provide sufficient funds to mattel
the federal apportiOnment; and +
strengthen existing central highwa
bodies or TO create new agencies.
when these preliminary steps ha
been practically completed and the d.
partment and the states were abOu
ready to proceed vigorously with til
actual construction of roads, I'll
United States entered the war. 1t 500
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28

Trajan's on the Alcontara bridge. and
an even rarer modern example like
that of the colossal Arc de rEtoile
at Paris, whose architects indeed quar-
relied and wavered on this very point,
the standard designs make use of pi-
lasters and columns, engaged or de-
tached, and carrying more or less
orately broken entablatures. Stanford
piers carrying with the help of a
rather delicate arch between them, a
decorated frieze and cOrnice crowned
with an attic story whose broad wal
panels bear the commemorative in
scriptiOns.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
Important to all Women
Readers Of this Paper

Thousands upon thousands of women
lave kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect 1t.
Womens complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer pain in the back, head
ache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous, irrita-
ble-and mar be respondent; it makes any
one so.
But hundreds of women claim that DIR.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be Just
the remedy needed to overcome such
conditions.
Many send for a sample bottle to see
what Swamp Root, the great kidney,
liver and bladder medicine, will do Tor
them. By enclosing ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co, Binghamton, n. Y, you
NAV receive sample size bottle by Parcel
Post. You can purchase medium anc
large size bottles at all drug stores.-Adv.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
Washington Once Drafted.

Washington was at one time drafted
into government service, says the
Worlds Chronicle. 1t was in 1898,
long after the Revolution. and after
Washington had been president for two
terms and had retired 70 Mount Yer
non. France had broken relations with
us and war was expected. Congress
appointed Washington commander of
the army, and the secretary of war,
carrying the commission to him, found
him in the harvest field. When Wash.
ington learned the errand on which
his visitor had come, he said: II am
ready for any service that l can give
my country"
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
NEW YORK'S FINE MEMORIAL
For Merit of Design, the Washington
Arch in That City Has Been
Given Universal Praise.

OF American arches already stand
ing in permanent construction, the
Washington arch in New York has
widest recognition for merit of de-
sign. II had its beginning in Stan
ford Whites temporary structure Tor
the Washington centennial in 1888
just 100 years after Boston had built
Bulfinch's arch of lumber and canopy
fabric beside the old state house. Four
years later 1t stQl in mellow marble
At the foot q Z 20 n ssraisht=
forward construction, with no columns
or gables applied in merely decorative
uses. this centennial arch attests its
designers courage in breaking win
almost universal precedents. Except
for an occasional ancient arch like
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
Somewhat Sarcastic.

Senator james \. Watson of In
diana has a story about his first law
case.
II was out in Nashville, Ind, and
the youthful attorney was called to
defend a fellow citizen against boot
logging charge. Il was clear case
against Watson's client. The outcome
was the maximum sentence Of 5000
and year in prison.
Next day Watson called upon his
client at the county Jail.
Il suppose you did all you could
for me-" glumly admitted the convict
ed man. what is your charger
"a hundred dollars" stated Watson.
THAT'S a lot of money, amt 1t:
CrOwled the client.
well. you can't get an able lawyer
for nothing" he was told.
II suppose if l had hired half
dozen able lawyers like YOU" retorted
the convicted client, 81 would have
pulled a life Observation-Disclosures
Star.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
OepopuIated Nebraska Town.

Forty years ago, Just as the city OF
Lowell. Neb., which was then at the
end of the railroad and had 5000 in
habitants. was about to lose its impor-
lance because of the extension of the
railroad, shopkeeper had the poor
Judgment TO lay in complete stock
of goods. The stock is still there. for
the disguised owner shut up the store
and has never since opened it for busi-
ness. Lowell now is populated by
fewer than thirty persons.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
YOUNGSTERS!
Need "Cascarets" when Sick,
Bilious, Constipated.

When your child is bilious, consti-
noted sick or full of cold; when the
little tongue is coated, breath bad and
stomach sour, get a box of Cascarets
and straighten the little one right up.
children gladly take this harmless
candy cathartic and it cleanses the lit
tie liver and bowels without gripping
Cascarets contain no calomel or dan
gerous drugs and can be depended upon
70 move the sour bile, gases and indi'
yestible waste right out of the bowels
Rest family cathartic because 1t never
, cramns. sicsens or causes incon'
venience.-Adv.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
Washington at the "Show''

coach to smaller communities. But all
that was long time ago, so long ago
that there was no United States Of
America, and the future father of his
country was still inclined to 90 to
what people nowadays call a "show."
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
GOOD ROADS ADD HAPPINESS
srina Farmer and Family Within Re"
Minutes Of Neighbors, School
house and Stores.

The modern farmer and his family
ara with good roads, within a few
minutes of their neighbors, OF the
movies and theaters, Of the school
house and library. Nothing stands Id
the way of going % or even 100 miles
from home on Sunday to visit rela-
tIves or friends. in thus moving around
he Is more contented and happy.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
MARYLAND FIRST IN FIELD
Residents of Boonsboro, in that State,
Built Memorial to George Wash
inuton in 1927.

On the summit of South mountain,
above BoonsborO, Washington county,
Maryland, stands an interesting me-
mortal to George Washington, when
is. moreover. the first monument ac-
tually erected to his memory In TINS
country, according to the Youths COM
panion. Although work was begun on
the monument in Mount Vernon place,
Baltimore. some years earlier. tnat
shaff sSsrs not pagapleted Until -lazss.
but the one on South mountain was
virtually built in one day, the Fourth
of July. 1927.
At IL o'clock on the morning or that
day all the people of the little settle
ment of BoonsbOro-twO years later IL
! contained only Twenty-Five houses
| went in a body to the point then
/ Known as Blue Rocks. Some OF the
men had fought under Washington in
the War of the Revolution. The re-
suit of the days labor was a monu-
ment built of the stones found on the
mountain. 1t measured fifty-fOur feet
in circumference and was raised 10
the height of fifteen feet that day
Tradition says that that height was
increased to fifty feet in the next Few
days.
A central stairway leads 20 the sum
nit. The outlook is over three coun
ties; il includes part of the route o.
Washington's historic trip up the Po
tomac. the scene of the John Brown
tragedy. the Antietam battlefield ant
a part of the old National road.
. white marble tablet was originally Sc
,, in the side of the monument, on which
was the inscription, Erected to IN
memory of Washington, July a. 1877
nv the citizens of BoOnsboro." IN
slab has disappeared and all effort
to trace it have been In vain.
Tn the course of half a century tn
monument fell into decay. In lSSz
; was rebuilt by residents Of Boonsboro
but stroke of lightning has tor
away q part of It,. The people G
J, Washington county believe that
would be fit 'ng tribute from IN
neople of the whole country to restor
:. r. and the matter has been brougf
o before congress by the representative
v of the 4th Maryland district. The fa'
4, that il is the first completed NOM
s, ment to Washington-except one
s Paris-is settled by contemporal
records.
W Prominent in Many Things.
% A close study Of the life. letters ar
W documents of Washington will sho
V. that he was prominent also as bus
ness man. farmer, philosopher al
q statesman and in his knowledge
human nature.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
DYED HER BLOUSE,
SKIRT AND A COAT
spiamond Dyes" Turned Faded
Shabby, Old Apparel Into New.

Don't worry about perfect results.
Use diamond Dyes" guaranteed 10
rive n new. rich. fadeless color to any
fabric. whether 1t be wool. silk, inen'
cotton or mixed goods,-dresses'
blouses. stockings, skirts, chlldreh
coats. feathers-everything!
Direction Book in package tells how
70 diamond dye over any color. 10
match any material. have dealer show
Won "Diamond DYE" Color Card.-Adv
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
A Mouthful.

The intense Miss Miggs-Do you moi
think that the communists, by the doc
trine of syndicalism and mass action
shall ultimately develop an insurgen
cv which shall impose the soviet prln
CHILE on industry as whole?
The dense Mr.. BOggs-YOu said y
Judge.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
Must Keen Up Roads.

State roads must be kept up in win
ter for unimpeded traffic by horse
drawn or motor vehicles. A new law
in Massachusetts requires this and pro
vides for 1t. Other states should do
the same.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
roo BUSY to Weep for Old Days.

And when a woman is trying TO raise
oight or nine children she doesh l
uoste much time regretting the pass
ing of old-fashioned southern hoSp'-
tality.-Dallas News.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
Hard on Horsehesh.

While the authorities are saving on
the gravel pit they are likely to De
hard on horsef1esh. Good roads under
the horses feet will enable him to DO
the same amount of work with small
or amount of oats in his interior.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28

Let "Danderine" save your hair and
double its beauty. You can have lots
of long, thick, strong, lustrOus hair.
Don't let it stay fifeless, thin. scraggly
or fading. Bring back its color. vigor
and vitality.
Get a 35-cent bottle of delightful
"Danderine" at any drug or toilet coun-
ter to freshen your scalp; check dan
druff and falling hair. Your hair needs
this stimulating tonic, then its life,
color, brightness and abundance will
return-Hurry ADV.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28

When q woman looks in mirror she
Is luckily never able to see herseir as
other women see her.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28

Acid Stomach, Heartburn and Nausee
nuicLIv disappear with the use of Wrights
Gndian Vegetable Pills. Send for trial box
20 372 Pearl st. New York. Adv.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28

According to an old bachelor tne
,,ce thing about getting married is thai
you don't have TO.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
In Mo Great Hurry.

Winkleby gazed mt the new triplets
with fatherly pride, hut not a Iittle
apprehension in his eye, nevertheless.
what are you thinking, GEAR
.s s.a., - - winiSlehy softly.
Nothing, dear, nothing, he ~'sid,
falteringly; "only don't you think that
if would he wiser for us hereafter to
build up our little family on the In
stallment plan?'-Stray Stories.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
Appropriate.

"Our pastor wants pet.
"Then why not give him shepherd
dogF
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28
Prominent in Many Things.

A close study Of the life. letters and
documents of Washington will show
that he was prominent also as bust
ness man. a farmer, q philosopher and
q statesman and in his knowledge of
human nature.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-02-28

ocopxrlsn,. 1920. western Newspaper unlonl
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-04
A RICH MAN OR FOOL.

Col. Pat Roche came up town one
day this week and "struck up with
Old Man Gillian" down at Calvert's s
Furniture Emporium. Col. Calvert
mad just loaded a caravan of furni-
ture headed for another county and
the boys were waiting on the home
folks, SO he sat down to talk to his
two friends. The conversation drifted
to land, and Col. Roche declared in
no uncertain terms that a man was
a fool not to sell his land at the
prices now being offered. So Col.
Calvert and Col. Gillian inquired of
him what he considered big fool
price for the six acres of branch
bottoms which he owns on the Fit.
Pickens side. He thought about $3.50
would fill the bill he said, and they
Immediately asked him to "ink" a
contract for the sale at this price.
He wiggled little and then backed
out. Next, they asked him for a
price on the tract he sold last year
for $50 per and bought back at
$50 per. He thought he would salts
fy them this time, so he put his fig
ures at $125, whereupon they again
dared him to "ink" his figures, and
he fell down again. He was then ask
ed to name the value of his house and
lot on Cambridge Street, which he did
They offered to "ink" it at an ad-
vance of about $500 over mis- own
figures but by this time he had gone
home.
We drove by late in the afternoon
10 find out whether Father Murphy
would be down for services next Sab
bath and located Colonel Roche out
in his fine garden in amongst the
onions, and he informed US that he
had been wondering all evening
whether he was really rich man OF
Just a plain old fool. He did not tell
US his decision but he loaded US with
the finest lot of good onio2s we have
seen this season.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-04

the Spring, and who was so greatly
esteemed there as an expounder OF
the scriptures and as a man OF
Biblical learning will be in Abbe-
vile next Sabbath and will preach
at II o'clock in the Associate Re-
formed Presbyterian Church.
The Due West people were so
pleased with DR.. Robinson that he
was invited to come down from
Washington and preach the annual
sermon to the seminary students.
This accounts for his second visit.
The Seceders in Abbeville who
heard him were so well pleased
with him that they determined to
persuade him to come to Abbeville
in order that the people might hear
this distinguished divine. They are
greatly pleased that he has accepted
their invitation.
DR.. Robinson, while considerably
advanced in years, having been in
the ministerial work for forty
wears, was in the thick of the fight
ing in the World War. So many
of the boys Of his congregation
were called to the eolors in the be-
ginning that he felt called upon to
go along as their chaplain, which ne
did. He saw many of the boys of his
church go down to battle never to
return. The war has made a great
impression on him.
DR.. Robinson is still in the SER
vice of the government and wears
the appropriate British uniform OF a
chaplain. While in France he was
stationed at Abbeville, and he de-
sires very much to see Abbeville'
South Carolina, which as everyone
knows was named for the French
city of the same name, Dt. John de
la Howe, native of the latter
place, giving our county and county
seat the name of Abbeville.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-04

lilies. This fund will be raised by
taxes imposed upon bachelors and
upon heads of families who have
reached a certain age and have less
than three living children.
This plan is to insure compensa-
ton for the loss of public revenue
involved by ~remitting taxes which
would be due normally from per-
sons having large families.
The commission also gave it's ap-
proval to the recently proposed
family suffrage system.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-04
SHIPPING BOARD
TO SELL VESSELS
Should Diligent Efforts Fail to Dis.
pose of Craft Here They Will
BE Offered Abroad.

Washington, June 3.-While Civ
ing American shipping interests pref
erence in the acquisition Of govern
ment owned tonnage, merchant ma
rine legislation as agreed on today
by senate and house conferees would
authorize the shipping board to sell
vessels to foreign interests should
"diligent efforts" to dispose of the
craft in this country fail.
Sales to foreign concerns, how
ever, could be made under the COM
promise bill only on vote of five Of
the seven members of the shipping
board.
The legislation as agreed on would
direct the sale of the government
owned vessels "as soon as practical
BILE with good business methods" but
no time limit for the sale Is fixed.
Pending sale Of the ships the board
would be authorized to charter them
to American concerns.
Consideration of the conference
report will be taken up in the house
tomorrow and following it's expected
adoption will be called up without
delay in the senate in an effort TO Sc
cure final action before the expected
adjournment of congress Saturday.
AS approved by the conferees the
bill would require rs per cent Of the
stock in companies operating ships in
coastwise trade to be American own
ed with Americans holding the con-
trolling interest in ship companies en-
gagged in foreign trade.
The bill further would empower
the board to set aside annually for
the five years $25,00O,OOO to be used
as a construction fund from which
to assist American concerns in build
ing of new vessels, for the establish
ment and maintenance OF service on
steamship lines deemed desirable by
the board. The senate bill fixed this
amount at $5O,0O0,O0O. Owing to op-
position of house conferees, provis-
ion for direct subsidy it would au-
thorize the board and the postmaster
general Sin aid of the development
of a merchant marine" to determine
from "time to time the just and rea-
sonable rate of compensation to be
paid for carrying American mails"
In order to give the American mer-
chant marine every advantage for its
development, the bill would author
ize the president to notify foreign
governments within 80 days after it
becomes a law of the abrogation of
treaties which restrict discrimina-
ton in favor of American ships.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-04
LIBRARY HOURS

Since the; closing Of the schools
The Library will open in the morn
ing on Tuesdays and Fridays, the
hoursh being from nine until half
past eleven.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-04
FRANCE TO TAX BACHELORS

Paris, June 1.-The French Ma
tality Commission, at meeting
held under the craftsmanship of j.
L. Breton, Minister of Hygiene,
definitely approved the proposal of
M. Correard for the establishment
of a national fund for large fam
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-04
SERVICES AT PRES
BYTERIAN CHURCH

The Rev. w. n. Stevenson, OF
Clinton, will preach in the Presbyte
rian church next Sunday.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-04

so ACRE TRACT OF LAND with a
room house, barn, good orchard.
1 mile to school and church. 9
miles from Abbeville. Price per
acre, $4,000. Jno. F. Sutherland.
5-6-4.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-06-04

Distinguished Scottish Preacher
DR.. John Robinson, who is in this
country from Scotland, and who
preached for a week in Due West in
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-02-11
SCHLESW|C PLEb|SC|TE
VOTED AGAINST GERMANY

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whether Schleswg
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AMSTERDAM A
allied of
whose exradtion
adjutant, published
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he adj
Russians Sink Heavily
to
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the senate today
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-02-11
RAILROAD STRIKE QUESTION
YET FAR FROM SETTLEMENT

General Hines conferred with At
railroad strike
except had been maze
denied that the department justice con-
eventually
take
Wilson Approve.
railroad
responsibility railroad administrations standpoint
White House To-Day
Conferences
this
neither the meeting postponed until
m.
Oil IN Bill Completed.
completed today with the adoption the conference report The
bill to the president
and
sodium and OIL
7O0O0O
Of the public domain principally western states.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-02-11
SAMUEL GOMPERS
SCORES CONGRESS
LAUNCH CAMPAIGN TO ELECT
CONGRESSMEN FAVORABLE
TO UNION LABOR
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON. Organized
labor's campaign to elect a congress
friendly to it, was opened formally
today by Samuel Gompers, president
and J. A. O'Connell, vice president, of
the American Federation of Labor, in
addresses before shipbuilders trade
convention here. Both speakers Wig
orously assailed the present congress
as "the most reactionary in the his
tory of this country" and declared
that from it labor need expect not
the slightest assistance in the shape
of remedial legislation"
Inviting the Representatives of 500
900 shipyard workers present to join
the federation in its fight to reward
our friends and defeat our enemies"
Mr.. Gompers promised them every
assistance of his organization in
forcing the government to continue
the wartime ship construction pro-
gram to it's logical conclusion, giving
the United States the "greates mer-
chant marine in the world"
eve propose to move ahead, no
matter what obstacle is placed in our
way" said Mr. Gompers. "The labor
can not stand still; it must
of necessity, progress"