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Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-08

Newarkr-There is no Improvement
in the employment situation. A num-
Der of plants will close for from
to two months during the mmer
Improvement In building is expect
ed to follow the recent adjustment
of controversy in the building trades.
Trenton-With steel, iron and rub
Der continuing to reduce forces the
industrial situation remains extreme
ly quiet. Tobacco and pottery show
some improvement. The only large
construction Jobs under way are a
new Y. M. G. A. building and a new
hotel.
Paterson-The silk industry is
holding its own and ;building.i is fair
ly active, but machine shops and all
other iron works are exceedingly
sluggish. A change for the better
is expected after July Is.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-08

IT, Fol 80 s
the 26 cities showing increased en-
ployment in June over May. Pater-
son gained 636 or S.S per cent in en-
ployment in June over May and
Passaic 275 or 81 per cent.
Camden's unemployment increased
1878 or 4.3 per cent in June over
May; Bayonne 7S5 or 81 per cent;
Newark 1899 or 81 per cent: Tren-
ton 367 or 80 per cent; Jersey City
259 or 2 per cent and Perth Amboy
254 or IL per cent.
The 26 cities showing increased
employment in June over May had
1906 more employed. while the 80
cities showed increased unemploy-
ment had 81, 500 more idle.
The United States Employment
Bureaus report for New Jersey
reads as follows:
New Jersey General-Unemploy-
ment is still increasing, though the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-08


demand for farm help continues
good. Satisfactory books are report
ed from summer resort sections.
Camden-Unemployment contin-
ues to increase. though not as rapid
ly as in previous months. Textiles,
hosiery. leather and shoes. steel pens.
candy. and paper boxes show gradual
Improvement. Metals and machin-
cry are very dull. There is a small
amount of building and indications
are that work on the Delaware River
bridge will soon be under way. I'm
employment is serious but prospects
are brighter.
Perth Amboy-Metal refineries are
stagnant. There is some building
under way; also some municipal i'm
provement work. though no settle
ment has been reached in the pend
ing controversy In the building
trades.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-08
KERMESS At so. AMB0Y.
CHURCH BIG SUCCESS

SOUTH AMBOY. July S.-The
grand kirmess, under the auspices
of the united societies Of the Sacred
Heart Church, closed last night
after tour great days, where thous-
sands of this city's people were at
tracted each night. A huge dancing
platform, erected especially for the
occasion, seemed to attract a goodly
number of the old, as well az a
great number of the younger set.
All kinds Of concessions stands were
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-08
OLD SOUTH AMBOY RAILROAD
MAN ON TROLL OF HONOR"
lBy Evening News correspondent.l

SOUTH AMBOY, July s.-After so
years, and five months of continued
service in the employe of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company In this
city. Thomas Holton, has been r1ac-
ed on the honor role. Mr.. Holton
was born in this city. on February
IA, 1856.
He attended private schools in this
city, and at the age of thirteen years
entered the service of the Camden
and Amboy Railroad as a messenger.
serving in this capacity until Oc-
tober /, 1872, when he was promoted
to machinist helper. He remained
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-08

on the grounds. and all were patron
lied freely. The affair in genera
was . great success. ~
A contest between several of thu
ladies of the parish ragged strong1
during the four days. Just who thet
fortunate girl will be was not learnedN
as yet, all returns not being IN on
time.
Plans for another such event are
being considered and it is likely that
Labor Day will be the time SET
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-08
UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASES
IN new JERSEY CITIES
BY GEORGE H. MANNING
Washington Correspondent of Perth
Amboy Evening News

WASHINGTON. July S.-The en-
ployment situation for New Jersey is
not at all bright. the monthly re-
port of the u. S. Employment Bu-
reau, issued today shows.
The report places Camden, Bay
onne. Newark, Trenton, Jersey City
and Perth Amboy among the 80 cities
reporting increases in unemployment
during June as compared with May.
Paterson and Passaic are among
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-08

where he moved. several years ago,
from the Mechanicwille section of
the city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-08
DIR. M. HULsART

CHIROPODIsT
Successor to Or. J. Marrow
RA3ITAN BLDG. ROOM 500
OFFICE HOURS-Monday Wednesday,
Friday. 10 A. NJ. to 6 p. NJ.
Tuesday Thursday. Saturday. 10 A.. M.
to 8 r. M.
Wednesdays During July & August
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-31
MONDAY, JANUARY 81, 1921
CATCHING OFFENDERS

The law officers of the county have
been making it hot for the whiskey-
makers the last week or two. Sheriff
McLane has made a good start in the
enforcement of the law, and there
will be less illicit liquor sold in this
county if he keeps up the good work
He is doing his part in bringing the
guilty parties before the bar of JUS
tice.
The next work to be done is by the
judicial officers of the court. Whis-
key-making and whiskey-selling will
not be stopped so long as bonds in
insignificant amounts are demanded
and so long as fines of small amounts
are made by the courts. The judicial
officers of the county and state must
learn that the liquor-maker and the
liquor-seller are menaces to the good
order of the community and their
products are breeders of other crimes,
and they must be treated accordingly.
If this is done, there will be less for
the sheriff to do, and still less liquor
for sale.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-31
HOMECOMING OF COTHRAN

Abbeville County has enjoyed the
distinction of being the nursery for
many generations of lawyers and
jurists of character and fame
throughout the land. For example,
there was John C. Calhoun, of mar
vellous gifts in legal lore; and James
L. Pettigru, one of the greatest law
yers that ever practiced at the Bar in
South Carolina; and Armistead Burt,
a brother-in-law of Mr.. Calhoun, and
the Perrins and Cothrans and Mobiles
and Lees and scores of others. A
mong the Judges of the State there
were the Wardlaws of the ante-bel-
lum Bench (of whom Associate JUS
tice ,Cothran is kinsman) and Samuel
MCGOWAN, of the State Supreme
Court in the time of Wade Hampton,
James S. Cothran, as already noted,
father of the new Associate Justice,
was a Circuit Judge of the State. As
sociate Justice MCGOWAN, who mar
ried Wardlaw, was also related to
Justice Cothran. Then there is the
present Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of South Carolina, Eugene B.
Gary, and his brother, the late Err
nest Gary, who was a distinguished
Judge of the Circuit Court in South
Carolina, and another brother, Frank
B. Gary, now Judge of the Circuit
Court in--this State, and these three
brothers were all born and reared
and learned the law in Abbeville
county. We should think that the Bar
of .Abbeville would give great feast
in honor of the Abbeville man who
has been called to the highest posi-
BILE service, and kill the fatted calf
and welcome their wandering son
back home again.-Spartanburg Jour
nal
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-31
JUSTICE COTHRAN.
OF ABBEVILLE

Thomas Perrin Cothran, of Able
lille, but for a number of years tenn
porarily' sojourning in the town of
Greenille, has been elected Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court OF
South Carolina, and the best that can
be said for him is what his brethren
of the Bar generally say: "He is fit
for the high office to which he has
been elected" Fit, we would add, be-
cause of his knowledge of the law, his
familiarity with its practice, his ju-
dicial temper, his studious habit, his
lawmaking experience, his inherited
fitness for the highest service on the
Bench and his moral character.
We have known him for a good
many years and have never known
anything to his discredit. He comes
by his fitness for the highest public
place honestly. The son of James S.
Cothran-a soldier of conscipuous
bravery in the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia, the leader of the Redshirted
hosts of Abbeville County in 1876, a
Judge on the Circuit Bench of South
Carolina, when honest men had been
restored to power, a member of Con-
gress from the Third District who
served his people faithfully-he is the
worthy son of a worthy sire. On the
other side of his house, the son of a
daughter of Thomas Chiles Perrin, a
lawyer of high distinction at the
Abbeville Bar, in his day next to the
Bar of Charleston the ablest and
most distinguished in the State, and
a man of loftiest virtues and highest
courage, the new Associate Justice
comes into his high estate fit for what
ever service may be required of him.
Associate Justice Cothran is in the
sixty-fourth year of his age, in the
full possession of all his faculties,
accustomed to hard work and close
application to whateversthe task in
which he is engaged, and we congrat-
ulate the State that a worthy sue
cessor has been found in him for AS
sociate Justice Hydrick, who served
South Carolina faithfully to the end
of his useful life. The people of
Abbeville County are especially to be
congratulated upon the selection of
one of the most distinguished men of
that famous county for a place on the
highest Court in South Carolina
Spartanburg Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-31
WAGE CUT OPPOSED BY
RAILROAD UNIONS

Cleveland, o., Jan. 30.-Heads of
three big railroad brotherhoods in
formal statements here tonight
said the railroad men of the coun-
try "will not peacefully submit" to
the wage reductions, which Chicago
dispatches say the railways will seek
from the United States Railway La
Dor Board in a petition to be pre-
sented Monday.
w. G. Lee, president of the Bro
therhood of Railroad Trainmen; w.
S. Carter, president of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and
Engineermen and L. E. Sheppard,
president of the Order of Railway
Conductors, made this declaration
in formal statements. A similar dec
laration was made Thursday by
Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers.
All the brotherhood executive de-
clare that reports of decrease in the
cost of living are not borne out by
actual conditions, but are the result
of propaganda; that the wages of
railway employees did not increase
as rapidly as did the cost of living
or as much; and that railway men
are not receiving as high standard
Of wages as are paid in many other
industries.
Prejudieing Public
Mr.. Lee assterd that, in his opin-
ion, "some, if not the greater por-
ton of the business depression has
been brought about solely for the
purpose of prejudicing the public in
the interest of reduction in wages
generally"
Mr.. Carter declared that mot
withstanding all the wage increases
made either by the railroad admins
tration or the Labor Board, it can
be shown that because the great in
crease in the efficiency of railroad
employees there has been no practi-
cal increase in wage costs compared
with product"
Mr.. Sheppard asserted that "to ad-
NIT that in this country Of our it is
necessary to make an onslaught on
labor at his time, after all the coun-
try has done for the railroads, is abb
solutely un-American."
Messrs. Lee, Carter and Sheppard
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-31

also pointed out that the railroad
employs piece worker, laid off and
not paid when the railroad traffic is
light. They also took the position
that before the railroads could pre-
sent a request for wage reductions
o the board, they would first have
to present them to the men and ne
gotiations failing there then appeal
to the board.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-31
WILSON AGAIN USES PEN

Washington, Jan. 30.-Congress
received from President Wilson to.
day the first message signed with
pen and ink since the President was
taken i'll a year and a half ago. The
message had to do with changes in
customs districts.
Since his illness and up to this
time the President has used an in.
delible pencil in signing communica,
tions to Congress.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-31
SELLING COTTON

The Press and Banner has been a.
mong those who believed that the far
mers should hold their cotton for bet
ter prices. We adhere to that advice
so far as the man is concerned who
is not in debt.
But it is apparent to US now that
some of the present crop of cotton
must be sold before there will be
revival of business in this section.
The banks are owing more money
than they commonly owe in the mid
die of the summer, or at the end of
the crop season. The fertilizer bills
have not been paid, the bank notes
have not been paid, and the mer-
chants have not been paid.
If we are to make any part Of a
crop next year it will be necessary
for US to arrange for credit some
where. The banks cannot further
credit until their debts to
other banks have been paid.
The merchants cannot extend
credit until the farmers have paid
them, and they in turn have paid the
banks. We are in state Of stagna-
ticn, and there is nothing in our
judgment which will start tie wheels
to turning except the selling of a:
at least a portion of the c1'ton crop
rca on hands.
1t will not do ii say that this will
put the cotton down. We do not be-
lieve that it will have this effect. If
only twenty-five per cent. of the cot
ton in the hands of farmers who are
in debt is now sold, it cannot have
the effect Of putting cotton down.
The people who buy cotton know that
this cotton must be sold as we'll as
the people who have it. Besides by
selling it and beginning to pay debts,
we enable the merchants to begin to
pay up and buy more goods;
we enable the banks to pay
some of their indebtedness and place
them in a situation where they can
help again, and we contribute to a
revival of business to that extent.
And just now, we believe the coun-
try needs to get things started as
much as it needs anything else.
Of course cotton will be sold, or
some of it, at present prices, below
the cost of production. But the mer-
chant is selling his goods below cost,
and a great many other people are
taking losses. The dehation which has
come about so suddenly makes it nee
essary that all of us take our share
of the losses. We do not want to take
anymore than we are forced to, but
we had as we'll make up our minds
that something must be done before
business will show any life.
The sale of one bale of cotton and
the payment of debts to that amount
enables US to hold the next bale just
that much longer. The throwing of
the entire crop on the market at this
time, we are sure, would not be
wise thing, but the time has come
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-31

when we must begin to sell gradually.
The wise man, if he is in debt will
begin to liquidate his indebtedness in
this way.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-31
CIRCLE NO. 4 TO MEET.

Circle No. 4 of the Ladies' Auxili-
ary of the Presbyterian church will
meet Tuesday evening at 7:45 with
Miss Charlotte Brown. All members
are urged to be present as officer for
the year will be elected.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-31
D. A. r. MEETING

Andrew Hamilton chapter D. A. R
will meet Wednesday afternoon at 4
clock in the chapter room.
Mrs. J. Allen Long, Sec'ty.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-01-31

READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-07-20
cARn OF THANKS

we wish to express our thanks
ana appreciation to friends and,
tieighbors for the kindeness shown
us through the sadness OF our son
IN dbrother, also to the lodges and
comrades; and to those who gave
The beautiful floral tributes.
Mr. AND MRS. JAMES BoYDoH
AND DAUGHTER.
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17

1T is GENERAL opinion that the
Board of Education of Milford has
acted wisely in re-emplOying the
teachers who desired to remain in the
teaching corps of Milford. While
there are six vacancies in the staff,
only one of these will not be filled as
that department will be dropped for
the present from the Milford schools.
1t is believed that by the time
the schools reopen next September,
that thoroughly competent teachers
will be secured for the work of con-
Quoting the public schools. There will
be one or two vacancies in the color
ed schools to fill in addition to those
in the white schools-but there will
be less difficulty in getting colored
teachers.
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17
TO VOTE ON BOND ISSUE

A special election will be held at
Millsboro) on Saturday, June 25, for
the purpose of determining whether
or not the town commissioners shall
issue bonds for $4,000 for erecting
water works, furnishing water for do
nestle purposes and fire protection
and conducting a lighting system in
the town. The agitation for the i'm
provement was brought about by a
disastrous confagration, last fall,
which swept away the business por-
ton of the town.
AS the Indian River, one of the
largest streams in lower Delaware,
has its source at Millsboro, and four
of the largest mill ponds in the coun-
ty serve as feeders at it's source, it is
figured that the river mill stream,
which takes the waters of three other.
ponds, can be easily harnessed and
generate power at a minimum cost,
to conduct the utilities.
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17

by the faultfnders. Never" is a large
word and long one. No style ever
did last for many years, and this one
doubtless will change some day.
By that time, having become wonted
to the sight of what somebody calls
"drumsticks and wishbones," the sue
cessors of these scolders will be chat
ting fiercely about the wickedness of
concealing what in their young DAYS
was proudly and virtuously exhibited
for the delectation and ediication of
the peoples.
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17

high, in the metaphorical as well as
the literal sense, and a new and in
nocent joy has been added to life at
just the time when such an addition
was much needed. Also new inter
est.
Meanwhile the women go on dress
ing as they please, and so much are
many of them pleased by the way they
dress that they rasnly are declaring
that never, never, never again will
they extend their habiliments in either
of the directions so vehemently urged
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17
DROP IN NEGRO FARMS IN STATE

Farms to the number of 872, are
being operated by Negroes in Della
ware, according to a bulletin issued
by the Bureau of Census, Department
of Commerce, based on the census
count taken last year.
This is a decrease from 922 farms
operated in the State by negroes in
1910. OF the total of all farms in Del
aware, negroes operate 8.6 per cent.
Negro tenants till 504 of the 872
farms, as compared with 500 colored
tenants in 1910. The percentage of Ne
gro farms tenants indicated by the
1920 census is 1875, compared to 11.O
per cent in 1910.
Total acreage in Delaware titled by
negroes is placed at 54,883, compared
to 56,973, in 1910 Improved acres num-
ber 37,973 for 1920, compared to 37,-
O76 in 1910, indicating that although
fewer farms are now operated by ne
groes, those under tillage are better
cultivated.
Value of farm land and buildings
owned or operated by negroes in the
State is placed at $2,885,445 for 1920,
compared to S1,9S1,716.
In sixteen southern states, includ-
ing Delaware, negroes, according to
the 1920 census, are operating $780,
976 farms, compared to 880,824 in 1910.
OF these farms, 7O2,215 are operated
by negro tenants, compared to $685.
$50 in 1910. The total value of the
farms now operated by negroes in the
sixteen southern states is given as
SAL ,345,943 compared to Sal, 1884, 1916 in
1910. Improved acreage now under
cultivation by negroes is estimated at
27,706,281 acres, compared to 27,170,- |
318 in 1910. Value of the present farm
land and building is estimated, under |
The 1920 census, at $2,239, 1852. 100, COM
pared to only S873, 3,493, ,O1O in 1910.
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17

tried what could be accomplished by
insisting that thus the visible esthe.
tic content of the world, instead of
having been increased, had been di-
minished, and he wrote in his paper
The Villager, that his eyes were pam
ed by what he saw-because 1t was
uglyt At any rate, that's what his re-
marks came to. Either his standards
of beauty are abnormal or Katonah
is-well, call it unfortunate; for to
other observers the pulchritudes now
brought to view average distinctly
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17

which these styles demand compatible
with their standards of modesty and
propriety, it seems strange indeed
that denunciations of these styles
should continue. They do come, how
ever, sometimes from pulpits and
sometimes from positions considerab-
ly less high and less revered.
One critic, in evident desperation
over the failure of all the talk about
the wickedness of short skirts, has
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17
SHORTENED SKIRTS DEFENDED

With Miss Jane Addams guarantee
ing the morality of woman's dress as
now decreed by fashion, with DR..
Woods Hutchinson praising it with
authority as the most healthful she
has ever worn, and with millions and
millions of good women, young and
less young finding the revelations
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17
WORK ON THE FREDERICK ROAD

Work on the Frederica end of the
concrete highway has been completed
under the old contract. There is a
half-mile section near the eastern end
near the home Of Mrs. Short, yet to
be finished by another contractor. The
additional contracts fol work at each
side of Frederick and Magnolia will
be awarded next week.
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17

ALL SCHOOL elections in Delaware
will be held tomorrow afternoon, Sat
urday, June 18th, between the hours
of two and four o'clock The Whining
ton City school election was held last
Saturday, which is the only place in
Delaware to hold these elections on
a different date from the balance Of
the State.
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank the many friends
and neighbors who were so kind and
thoughtful during our recent bereave-
ment. Mr.. and Mrs. S. H. Morgan and
family. 1t
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17

Do you have something you don't
need and would like to sell. If you do
put little ad in the Chronicle and
get results.
Milford chronicle., 1921-06-17

TUESDAY, June IA, was Flag Day.
Not many people in Milford had their
flags waving.
The St. Johns herald., 1921-05-12

P. c. Abbott has secured a con cession to serve confections at thu Dreamland Hall during all amuse ments held there. In hot weath CT. cold drinks, ice cream, etc., will be obtainable, and during the cold weather, hot lunches anC drinks will be served.
 Hon. H. T. Laughbaum, orator and reformer. lectured at the academy Monday evening. The gentleman is an able speaker and was listened to by a very large audience. His discourse was one of the best ever delivered in St. Johns on the saloon question.
 Carpenters have been busy on the J. H. Heap residence for the past two weeks. remodelling the old home, making it more con- yenient and comfortable. We are informed that the exterior is to be given a thorough painting. This will add greatly to its ap- pearance.
 All ex-service men of the world war needing free dental work please make application to c. A. Patterson, 237 Flood Bldg, San Francisco, Cal, at an early date as it takes considerable time to complete the plans before work can be started.
 DR. JUNE GIBBONS.
 Everyone who has pride in his town will be gratified to know that tourists are already remark ing what a pretty, clean, little town this is. The committee knows that every citizen is inter- ested in making St. Johns an at place, not only for tour ists and immigrants but for our own townspeople. So lets do bet ter every day till we get every place in town looking neat and attractive. Clean up our prem ises without being forced-keep trash off the street and banish flies by destroying breeding places-and swatting.
 CIVIC IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE.