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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07
1000 PERSONS IN STATE
DIE OF ct. B." PAST YEAR

Among the 10000 persons killed
by tuberculosis in the United States
last year, nearly 1000 were South
Carolinians. This point with other
facts is made known in a statement
made today by the Rev. Hugh R.
Murchison, campaign director Of the
Christmas seal sale in this state.
Mr.. Murchison gives as the official
estimate of active cases of tubercu-
losis in South Carolina $1,000. Dur
ing 1920 there were 1914 deaths,
yet there are only 16O beds to care
for patients. With only one bed for
every hundred active cases the peo-
pie of the state are being asked what
is to be done with the 80 cases out
of very hundred, who, through hack
of treatment, either die or continue
the spread of the dread diseases
throughout the remainder of the
population.
Death calls $4,000 children under
five years of age each year in this
country. More than so per cent of
all children are infected with tuber-
culosis before they are ten years
old and the percentage increases un-
til at 1S years it reaches it's maxi
mum of from 60 to 80 per cent.
One of the aims. of the South
Carolina Tuberculosis association,
states Mr.. Murchison, is to seek out
and record all cases of tuberculosis,
and to provide treatment as mat
ter of protection to the rest of socie-
ty, who daily are endangered by the
germ which kills thousand of the
best citizens. The prevention and
cure of the disease depends largely
upon the sale of the health bonds
and Christmas seals. The drive for
the sale of these begins the first Of
the month and will continue until
New Year.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE.
Probate Court.

Probate Court.
Citation for Letters of Administration
By J. F. MILLER, ESQ.,, Judge of
Probate:
Whereas, J. Allen Smith and Rob-
ert S. Link hath made suit to me,
to grant them letters of administra-
tion of the estate and effects of S..
]. Link, late of Abbeville County,
deceased,
These Are Therefore, to cite and
admonish all and singular the kim
dred and creditors of the said S. j..
Link, deceased, that they be and
appear before me, in the Court of
Probate, to be held at Abbeville Court
House, on Tuesday, the goth day of
December, 1921, after publication
hereof, at II o'clock, in the
forenoon, to show cause, if any they
have, why the said Administration
should not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal of
the Court this 9Th day of December
in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-one and in
the 146th year of American Inde-
penderce.
Published on the 7th day of Dec.
1921 in the Press and Banner and on
the Court House door for the time
required by law.
]. F. MILLER,
Judge of Probate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07
COTTON LINTERS USED
IN MAKING OF PAPER
Once Considered Waste Product
Is Now Being Utilized In
Profitable Manner

To most people paper is only
paper-for one purpose or another
Very few people can tell you what
paper is made from except that they
know pulp is used in the process
Most people do not know how to
judge the quality of paper or the
fitness of a particular kind for their
purposes.
But most people in the South
know something about cotton. They
know that it has been a money crop
since the days of the first cotton gins.
They know also that the supremacy
of cotton or money crop is being
threatened by the coming of the boil
weevil. Hence they will be interested
in any invention that seems likely to
increase the demand for this staple.
Therefore it will be interesting to
'esrn that recently a process has
been worked out by the chemists and
Inter men of the Southern Cotton
On Company by which linters, cotton
reginned from cotton seed, is made
the principal material in good
grade of paper. The discovery of this
process is considered of especial i'm
rortance at time when the scarcity
of pulp wood is said to be the cause
for the continued comparatively high
cost of bond papers. 1t is not known
to what extent the new paper making
material, linters, has been found
available, whether it can be used as a
sufficiently general substitute for
wood to supplant pulp, or whether it
is produced at a reasonable cost or
not. 1t may be that the cost of using
fafers is prohibitive to the general
use of paper made from this product.
Anyway more definite announce
ments will be awaited with interest.
Even the comparatively young
man can remember when cotton seed
were considered Of value only as a
fertilizer. Older people remember
the time when they were considered
u nuisance and dumped into rivers
and guillies. Until very recently cot
ton linters were useless, waste pro-
duct about the oil mills.
If the price of cotton shall con-
time low it is probable that paper of
n good quality may soon be obtained
at a much lower price than can be
had at present.
The Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany, which is interested in a. factory
ut Hopewell, Va, which makes lint
els paper, is now using this paper in
an of its Office work as we'll as for
dodgers and correspondence.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07

VICTRCLAS-Ma this a musical
Xmas in your home with Victro-
la and Victor Records. But be
SURE it is a Victrola, look under the
aid. Make your selection now while
our stock is complete. THE ECHO.
1875. tic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07

Five hundred thousand Girl
Scouts of twenty-six nations nave
begun a campaign to bring about
world peace.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07

GlNNING-After this week we will
gin on following days: Thursday
and Friday, December 8 and 9th
and Friday December Is. South
ern Cotton Oil Co., G. E. Calvert
Dec. 2, I and IA. col.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07

In Warsaw a shoe shine costs g.
900 rubles. That is what they must
mean by the Polish problem.-Life.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07

STATiONERY-Convey the yuletide
spirit with White & Wyckoffe's
distinctive Stationery, the gift ac-
.. eeptab!e. Our holiday line now on
display. THE ECHO. ~, site
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07

MAGAZINES-Twelve Xmas gifts
for the price of one-a years sub
:cription to a Magazine will 80 a
twelve time reminder of your
Xmas thoughtfulness. We take
subscriptions to any magazine pub
iished. THE ECHO. 12, 5,-tfc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07

sets old fashioned
sndironc and tenders. Prefer
brass but would consider wrought
iron. Quote price to box 152,
Abbeville. 1t. pd.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07
WANTS

&ClI.GE-No hunting or trespassing
!. ny W..y is a!::o;::.c;: o.! ny l,:n.,s.
=. !2tpd Mrs. David Gillian.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07

NOTICING hunting, fishing or
reSpassing in any way is allowed
or lands of j. 7. Stokes and Mrs.
+ T. Stokes. -12, 7.2tpd.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07
TEACHERS ASSIGNED
ABBEV|LLE HOMES
MANY ARRIVING TODAY AND
TONIGHT-PROGRAM OF IN
STITUTE BEGINS TOMORROW
MORNING AND CONTINUES
THROUGH SATURDAY.

| mONINlNS AMI WV AANS
THROUGH SATURDAY.
Teachers attending the three-da!
institute here Thursday, Friday anc
Saturday began arriving this after
noon and the following assignment:
have been made by the entertain
ment committee:
Misses Euna Stevenson and Vir
ginia Aiken Thompson with Mrs. F
E. Harrison.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. V. Wilkes with
Mrs. R. C. Philson.
Miss Blanche Newton with Mrs. P
A. Cheatham.
Misses Mary Cox and Margaret
Turner with Mrs. C. C. Gambrell.
Misses Sara Addison and Ola Scog,
gins with Mrs. J. D. Fulp.
Mrs. j. B. Thomas and Miss Eliza
beth Grant with Mrs. C. A. Milford
Miss Olivia ,Branyon and Miss
Hattie Rogers with Mrs. Fannie Mil
ford.
w. F. Wingo and S. F. Ellis with
Mrs. G. A. Neuffer.
J. F. Harper with Mrs. R. E. Cox
Mrs. C. F. Gillian and Miss Daisy
Lanier with Mrs. Henry Gillian.
Mrs. M. X. Kinds and one teacher
from Calhoun Falls with Mrs. C.
E. Peele.
Mrs. Vera S. Everette with Mrs. S.
A. FAINT.
I Augustus S. Buyck with Mrs. w. P.
Wham.
Misses Audrey snipes add 4auline
Turner with Mrs. T. G. White.
Mrs. Nolan Bowen and MisssGer-
trude Weldon with Mrs. Sam Nc
Cuen.
T. o. Bradshaw and G. M. Gray
, with Mrs. j. T. Evans.
Misses Katie McClain and Marie
Hodges with Mrs. Bert Evans.
Supt. Frank Evans with Mrs. A.
M. Smith.
Misses Mary Jackson and Edith
Pennell with Mrs. w. F. Nickles.
Misses Clara Phillips and Ella Lee
Nance with Mrs. C. H. McMurray.
Prof. Bonnie Turner with Mrs
Fred Cason.
Two teachers from Calhoun Falls
with Mrs. j. F. Barnwell.
The following teachers have mott
fled the entertainment committee
that they will attend the institute but
do not desire entertainment provided
for them as they will either stay with
relatives or else will come from home
each day returning at night:
Miss Margaret McIwaine, Mrs.
Janette P. Crawford, Mrs. Robert
M. Stevenson, Miss Helen R. Eakin,
Miss Eleanor McNinch, Mrs. Ada C.
Kennedy, Mrs. j. R. McWhite, Mrs.
James Link, Horace D. Brown, Miss
Clara Wham and two teachers from
Keowee school and Miss Margaret
Swetenburg.
These in addition to the teahers
in the Abbeville schools and the tea
chers already assigned places to stay
make a total of about 100 who will
attend the meetings Thursday, Friday
and Saturday.
The program for these three days
follows:
Observation in Abbeville schools
9 to Thursday.
Conference $3.50 Thursday after
noon Court House.
Miss jeanette Mckenzie of Scot
land, primary supervisor in Green
vile City Schools, will talk to pri-
mary teachers Thursday afternoon
in Court House.
C. V. Wilkes, principal Donalds
schools will discuss teaching of Alge-
bra to seventh grade and high
school teachers at same time.
DR.. John Swearingen, state super
intendent of education will speak to
teachers and public g p. m. Thurs
day at Court House.
y. Observation Friday a. m. city
schools.
Reception to Marshal Foch Friday
p. m. followed by an address on
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07

BLACK FRUIT CAKE-Ary size at
SIS cents a pound. Give me your
order early. Phone No. l
Mrs. D. A. Rogers. if.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07


Sensible Useful Gifts
That's the kind of gifts the wise shoppers
are purchasing this year, that's the kind
of gifts that will be most appreciated.
Right now when our different depart
ments are just ''brim full'' of Holiday
Goods, in beautiful Christmas Boxes, is the.
time to secure just what you wish.
Here Are a Few of the Many Useful Gifts:
FOR MEN.
!; The very newest in Hart Scaffner &
Marx Suits and Overcoats.
Howard and Foster Shoes Many
Christmas specials at $3.50.
! The newest styles and colors in Stetson
Hats.
A new shipment of Eagle Velours at
$500. .....
The 'Sure Fit" Cap is an ideal Christ
mas gift as it is sure to fit any size ' head.
The new Automobile Sure Fit Cap makes
splendid gift.
! Hansens Automobile Gloves some
fleece lined.
Hansens Dress Gloves in the newest
shades of Brown
Hansens No. Railroad Special" holi-
day price $1.75.
Heaviest Grade Carhartt Overalls So. !
Work and Hunting Shirts in Wool, Cot
ton and Heavy Cheviots. Greys Browns,
Greens, Blues Olive, Khaki and Mixtures. J;
Dress Shirts in every color and combi-
nation of cplors ina aginable. Extra Speci-
ais i'm Christmas Colors.
Beautiful Fancy SoX in Fancy Boxes,
solid colors in Full Fashioned Silk, Lisle
and Cotton.
Beautiful Bath Robes and Smoking
Jackets.
/ A large shipment of Holiday Neck !
wear in Christmas Boxes.
Pure Linen Handl<erchiefs. !
Pajamas and Night Shirts. I
Every color and kind of Bed Room !
Slipper man can DESIRE
A Beautiful Line of JEWELRY. +
NO OBLIGATION TO BUY
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07

Blankets, Laprobes, Comforts and
Underwear at HALF price.
.-, AMOS B. MORSE co. 1t
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-04-07
EVERYONE FORMERLY WORKED ROADS
Toll Bridges, Ferries and Roads Helped Traffic
POLL TAX WORKED OUT ON HIGHWAYS

the autoist's lament if he was held
up every so often to pay toll OF
so much mile as he burns up gas
oline around the state.
The manner of the collection OF
the poll tax is vexing many, but poll
taxes have vexed people in the past.
In 1892 there was poll tax in this
state. At that time the worlds fair
at Chicago was being promoted and
for the purpose of collecting data
the assessors, who were holding
state convention, were requested to
obtain information regarding the
number and variety of stock being
raised in the state, together with
other agricultural statistics. The as
SCISSOR from Stevens county, rug.
ged old ranger, addressed the meet
ing and said that he had to go to
the end Of the railroad, and then to
the end of the wagon road, and then
to the end of the horse trail, and
then up to the miners on foot to
get his information and he did not
propose to carry any extra blanks
with him.
That question settled he said he
had something else he would like
to know about. 1t was the poll tax.
The law, he said, directed him to
collect the poll tax from every man
in his county by a certain day, and
that on that day when the train
came down from Canada there were
number of passengers, tourists
from the east, who did not have any
poll tax receipts. He told them to
pay up. or come along to the Stew
ems county hoosgow and become the
guests of the state. While they
must have known that he did not
have chance in the world to collect
they probably thought it cheaper to
chip in the nine dollars each than
to put in a couple of days with the
other county bOarders while they
were getting their cases before the
bar Of justice. At any rate the old
man got the poll taxes.
And the law now evidently reads
to include the visitors within our
gates. There must also be included
those few women who, for reasons
of their own, have been claiming
their age to be in the thirties or
forties in the face of possible stats
tics in the family bible. Is their
claim to be worth five dollars to
into their confidence and tender him
the delicate information with which
they have been trying to bunco the
public all these years?
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-04-07

ter was good for five years and call
ed for the following fares: For a
wagon, carriage. or vehicle with two
animals, 81; pleasure wagon, two
horses, 50; each additional animal,
so cents; cart, wOgon, or carriage
with one horse, 50; man and horse,
$1.50; animal packed, $1.50; foot
man, so cents; loose animals, so
cents. Some of those rates will be
seen to correspond pretty we'll with
rates charged at the present time
for automobiles; the pleasure wagon,
or car, rating SO, while the one-horse
rig, or flivver, gets by for $3.50.
A bridge over the Spokane river at
the falls was chartered at the same
session to one William Nix who was
to get % cents for foot passengers
and all the way up to $1.75 for diff
ferent kinds of rigs, the maximum
charge being for fOur-wheeled wag-
ons with two horses, or oxen.
Daniel Ledoux got charter for
ferry on the Columbia at Kettle
Falls and set the tourist with his
family goods back SIS for the short
trip across the river, and Thomas
Howe collected fares at White Bluffs
on the same stream. The ferryman
that Howe had at White Bluffs lived
there for years. That station was ON
the regularly travelled trail between
the Yakima country and the mines
that had been discovered in Stevens
and Ferry counties. At that his life
was very mOnOtOnOus and he put in
good deal of his time collecting In.
dian arrow heads, which are very
plentiful at that point as there is a
good deal of fine quartz rock near
there and the Indians used to gath.
er to make the points. He filled a
number of boxes with the bits OF
Clipped rock.
A wagon road in Walla Walla
county was chartered to r. r. Good.
win and Charles N. Mullan, who
were allowed to collect whole dol
lar for wagon drawn by two
horses, or oxen. The Naches road,
which was chartered to J. B. Web
Der, p. J. Moorey, e. R. Rogers, Hen
ry Winsor and j. ID. Loman, was to
run from Fort SteilacOom to the
White River silver mines. This road
was laid out in January, 1865, and
the builders were to be allowed to
charge 20 cents mile for vehicles
Transporting passengers and Is cents
a mile for vehicles carrying less
than five passengers and 5000 lbs.
of freight.
The paved state roads today cost
much more than those old dirt and
corduroy roads, but great would be
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-04-07

The much-talked of poll tax is
not without precedent in this as we'll
as other states where it has been
collected for variety of purposes
and in as many ways. Perhaps the
most common form Of poll tax was
the road tax which has been in
vogue from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific.
In the early days in this state
when roads were few and far be-
tween the road poll tax was one OF
the first laws put on the statute
books. ut shall be the duty Of the
board of county commissioners OF
the several counties in this territory
at their June session to levy and
assess a road tax of SO on every
person liable to perform labor on the
public roads," says the session laws
which were published December 1,
1856, by one Edward Furste, Prin-
ter.
The statute went on to state that
there was also an assessment of %
CcIlLS " ne COliCCltu Ol CdSA PAVo
valuation, to be collected with the
other country and territory taxes,
which was to constitute road fund
And the county auditor, Immediate
ly after the June session each year
shall furnish every supervisor OF
road districts with an abstract or
duplicate of the taxes so assessed
for road purposes in his road dis
trict. Every white male inhabitant
between the ages of 81 and so, ex
cept persons who are public
charge, or who are too infirm to
perform labor" That sounds a good
deal like the poll tax just passed ;
between the ages of Fl and so years
and those who are not public
charge, etc.
The result of the whole business
was that all of the neighborhOod
would gather on the days set by the
supervisor and make roads. AS a
matter of fact the roads were SO
poor and so badly needed that the
people generally put in good deal
more time than the three days that
the law called for.
The condition of the roads and the
need for them was so great that in
many cases the legislature chartered
companies and individuals to build
toll roads and bridges and ferries to
help make it possible to move the
newly arriving settlers around the
state.
One of the first of these charters
was given Jan. II, 1861, to Sanford
Owens and George w. Anderson to
run ferry on the Snake river at
the Fort Boise crossing. The char
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-04-07
CROSS CASCADES EARLY.

DEAL lLE SnOQualmle PdSS,
through the Cascade mountains on
the Sunset Highway is to be opened
to traffic between May 1 and May
TO- three to four weeks earlier than
any previous year, according to the
terms of contract approved by the
King County Board of Commission
ers and which is to be entered into
jointly by King and Kittitas Coun.
ties with Boss & Hampshire, Ellens.
burg contractors.
Three and one-half miles of high
way on the King County side and
four and one-half miles on the Kit
titas side are to be cleared of snow,
King paying 1894 and Kittitas ST..
666 for the work.
The contractors will use huge
caterpillar engine with specially
constructed dipper capable of mov-
ing 5000 yards of snow every eight
hours, to cut 12-foot path through
the drifts. The snow is said to be
six feet deep at the summit and
packed hard by alternating thawing
and freezing. In the switchbacks
where there is little sunshine the
snow is more than nine feet deep.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-04-07
Northwest News

SEATTLE.AThe board of directors issued
call for bids for the general contract in
connection with construction of the new
Roosevelt high school, Proposals to be
be obtained at the Offices of School Archi.
teet Naramore The Roosevelt high school
will cost considerably in excess of $1,000
600 and will serve the district around RAJ
VIENNA Park.
WALLA WALLA.-Work of remodeling
Fort Wala Walla for use as hospital for
former service men will start soon, accord
ing to President II. T.. Allen of the CONNER
cial club The public health service, which
now has title to the fort grounds, will send
architect here. in few days, he an
nounced It is planned to build a number
of cottages at the grounds each to house
IS patients. Plans call for room to care
follow, but in what form is not known.
SPOKANE. A. Davis, assistant chief
engineer of the state highway department,
Olympia, has been chosen president of the
Washington Assembly of the American As
ISOLATION OF Engineers at the annual con-
vention The following were named vice
presidents: X. Lozier, Seattle; II. Powell
Spokane; w. l.. Lovejoy, Hoquiam. Court
land Penny, Seattle, will continue as execu-
tive secretary. Forty delegates. were
in attendance. The association claims a
membership of 500 in the state.
RAYMOND.-E. G. Richmond, secretary
of the Businessmen $ Association OF TINS city
has received word from Representative AL
bert Johnson Mt Washington, ID. g., that
resurvey of Wilapa Harbor will be made at
the earliest possible date according to IN
director of the Coast and Geodetc Survey.
The matter of the inadequacy of available
maritime charts of this harbor was recently
taken up with Representative johnson.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-04-07

observation-disclosures men Throughout,
this section of Alaska are still discussing the
remarkable effect of National Fish Day con
sumption of sea food. National Fish Day
was generally observed throughout Alaska,
and restaurant men declare they ordered five
times much fish that day as usual and
were compelled to send in rush repeat or
ders 1t is asserted that more customers are
now eating fish than formerly.
SEATTLE.-The Washington State Asso.
citation of the United Association of Plumb:
ers, Steam and Gas Filters is the name of
new state body organized at reorganiza-
ton convention of the plumbers. By this
action, the old Northwest Association is
ter organization relinquishng jurisdiction
over all territory outside OF this state
WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, Pull.
man.-The 31st anniversary of the founding
of the State College was celebrated here
at special chapel program, with ex-senator
Enoch A. Bryan as the principal speakers.
Founders Day probably will be made the
occasion of an annual celebration in the flu.
ture. The last regular celebration OF TINS
event was held ten years ago.
TACOMA-The new publicly owned Port
business. The steamship Ardmore was the
first vessel to take on cargo. She was be-
ing loaded with 100000 feet Of lumber
coo has been spent on the port
OLYMPIA.-C. II. YOUNGER, supervisor of
industrial relations, named Harold P. Ever
est Kirkland, deputy for Western Washing
ton, and III. c. Miles, Spokane, deputy for
Eastern Washington. Everest former lieu
tenant in the air service, has been with the
state labor Office for two years.
PUYALLUP.-Offcers elected by the Puy.
allup Commercial club for next years are:
s. Burr Gregory. president, reelected; W. c.
Eatough vice president: H. r.. Barney, sec
rotary, reelected; w. A. Miller, treasurer,
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-04-07

SEWARD, Alaska.-Advices from the IN,
terror report that the most iihportan. 49, 80
str;ke in Alaska in recent years has been
made on a small creek few miles from
Fairbonks Greek, approximately 90 miles
from the city OF Fairbanks. Inc strike nas
caused n stampede The new district was
prospected several years ago. but IL Is salu
that the shafts then sunk stopped at RAISE
bedrock.
re.elected and trustees, Charles Schurh, ).
+. Patton and William GOelzer A report
showed 2O9 members. fourteen were drop
ped in the year and ninety'two received 10
membership.