The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-12-01
FIGHTS H0ARDERS
AND HELPS POOR
EUGENE McCORD UNDERTAKES
TO CARE FOR POOR.-GETS
CHICKENS FOR WARDLAW
STREET AND POOR MANS
FRIEND, AND SELLS THEM AT
LIVING PRICES-FORSAKEN
BY FRIENDS HE GOES TO RE-
CUPERATE IN OUTDOOR CAMP

fowl meat. He does not believe in
high priced chickens. Then again Eu,
gene is a friend of the poor. He
knows that the people around on
Wardlaw street are not able to buy
hens at $1.50 each, so early this
year he made up his mind to supply
them with the white meat of the finest
chickens which grow at forty and
forty-fve cents each, whichever a.
mount was most convenient for them
to pay. If tRey couldn't make change
he made three for one-twenty-fve.
Not everybody will understand how
Eugene could turn this trick, but it
was easy enough for Eugene, who is
bible student. He had been reading
about the young man being command
ed to sell all that he had and give it
to the poor. He also read that you
should /give full measure, heaped-
up and running over. He took an in
vsntory of North Main street and he
found that some of the miserly in
clined on that street instead of selling
and giving to the poor, were eating
all the fat hens and "fries," them
selves. He was unwilling that these
people should continue to be disobe-
dent any longer, so he appointed
himself to do the selling for them,
and he gave full measure by selling
the hens cheap. Accounting himself
one of the poor he gave the change
to himself.
Knowing that there were several
handsome and worthy widows as well
as other good people on Wardlaw
street, he "kinder appinted hisself
gardeen" for all these in the matter
of supplying chickens. Lately he
found, however, that Col E. R fhom-
son, DR.. J. R. Nickles and DR.. James
Austin, were raising fine chickens
faster than. he could dispose of them
on Wardlaw Street. He began then to
look around for other poor people in
the city, and the only other person
whom he could discover and whom
Eugene says, he felt he ought to
help was Corp. Kerr, of Greenville
street. Not that he thought the Corp.
was poor, he said, because Eugene
knew he was not, but he said that the
Corp. was "The Poor Mans Friend
as he could easily. prove by Furniture
Dealer Link, who is now selling q
dollars worth of furniture for sew.
enty-fve cents, being a friend of the
poor himself somewhat. So Eugene
let, the Corp. have two fine fat hens
at forty-five each.
This plan of fighting the hoarders
and being friend of the needy work
ed fine until Col. Thomson and DR.,
Nickles and the rest began to take
stock of their chickens after cotton
went, down, and found that some Of
the chickens must have flown away
Hearing of fine chickens being sole
on Wardlaw street, these hoarders OF
fine fowls on North Main began ar
investigation, and it was not hard TO,
them to identify some of the cheaI
fowls which they discovered in Ward
law Street barnyard. Of course
Wardlaw street people returned al
the chickens they had on hands, and
were glad to do so.
Corp Kerr, however, had his mind
on that ninety cents he had reluctant
ly parted with and as soon as he
heard the North Main crowd were 60
ing around identifying chickens, he
gave orders to have his two hens bak
ed for dinner. He then went @dowr
and had DR.. Nickles to fix up isteetE
on credit and hurried home and ate
both hens at one meal. That is the
reason he could not eat anymore al
Jim McMillan's party, and the rea
son why he could not drink anything
at all, not even a little water. The
two hens which the Corp. ate hac
been sold for DR.. Nickles by Eugene
Eugene has been so overworkec
that he has decided to take little
rest so he has gone out to Supervi
sor Stevenson's camp and will spenc
awhile with the boys out there. A.
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