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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
A CRIME AND ITS LESSON

It is a sickening story that comes
from Burke County, N. c. A promi-
-nent citizen of the community, a
county official, while under the in.
~fuence of whiskey, cut his wife's
throat and killed her.
He was good citizen when sober,
we are told, and loving husband. But
whiskey made him maniac and
drove his wife into premature
grave. ..
He was filled with remorse when
he got sober, of course, and the re-
morse will abide with him every min.
ute for the remainder of his days.
He may be brought to trial and
, convicted and given the supreme pun
ishment for the crime which he COM
mitted while in his crazed condition,
but this will not atone for the crime
and the ends of justice will not be
met until the man who made the
whiskey and the man who sold it are
convicted and given the full penalty
of the law. ::
There is no doubt about it. The
men who make and sell whiskey in
violation of the law should be re.
quired to suffer the same penalty as
those who commit crimes while under
the influence of whiskey. =
This horrible affair in North Caro-
lima will make good people every.
where more; determined than ever tc
stamp out, root and branch, whiskey
making and whiskey selling.
If we will do these things, there
will be no need to worry about whis
key drinking.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
w. c. HILL SHOT
Negro Shoots White Mar in Green
wood County,

Negro Shoots White Man in Green.
-. wood County.
Index Journal.
w. c. Hill, q white man, was shot
in the face with a shot gun, but on.
ly slightly injured this morning
about seven o'clock by Fred Chiles
a negro, at the store owned by Mr.
Hill and b. n. Matthews on the Sa.
luda road, over fifteen miles from
Greenwood. At noon today officers
We're still looking for Chiles.
According to telephone messages
from that section this morning
Chiles had had some words with Mr.
Hill and returned to the store with
a single barrel shot gun. Just as
Mr.. Hill slammed the store door the
negro fired, a few Of the shots tax
ing effect in Mr.. Hills face. =,
Sheriff E. M. White and his depu
ties, with dogs went to the scene al
once and at last reports were or
Chiles' trail. Chiles is young ne
gro, about grown, it is said.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
Cause of the Noise.

Cause of the Noise. 3.
= Everybody is talking about boil
weevils and cotton. The other day
Ben Taylor, an old colored man on
the edge of Mccormick county said:
"Boss, you know was settin' on my
front pooh restin' my toes and I
KEEP a-hearin a fuss out in my cotton
patch benin the balm. / auibled round
the balm to see what twas maxim a
rackit. Got aroun there and didn't
see nothin. Went back an sot down
and hemn it agin. I went back aroun
there an stood still a mint. And
boss, what ye supposin that it vast"
"Don't know Ben, you tell u.s."
his neighbor replied. .
"Well sab, it warn't nothin but the
big boil weevils cussin the little uns
cause they warn't takin' two rows at
the time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
WANNAMAKER SIGNS
St. Matthews Planter Puts Name To
Cotton Contract.

Columbia, Sept. John r. Wan
namaker, of St. Matthews, has sign
ed the cotton cooperative marketing
contract, it was announced yester-
day from the headquarters of the
South Carolina Cotton Growers Co.
operative Association in this city.
Mr.. Wannamaker is a well known
planter Of Calhoun county. J. P.
Strilbling. of Richland, Oconee coun-
ty, one of the best known planters in
his county, also sent in his signed
contract yesterday.
In sending in his contract, Mr.
Wannamaker writes President Harry
G. Hammer as follows:
"It unquestionably requires nerve
for one to sign away his right to sell
his own cotton in his own way; but it
is the wise thing to do. Under The
plan which we have tried to our sor-
row and our undoing for 10! these
many years when every farmer COM
peted with every other farmer in the
sale of his cotton, the farmer has
been brought time and again to the
verge of bankruptcy and has been
made an easy prey for his enemies.
Under this old plan he has been rob-
bed, pillaged,' plundered, laughed at
and trampled underfoot- for lack
of organization and hearty coopera-
ton.
"I therefore take pleasure in sign
! ing the contract an bid you and your
associated godspeed in his great
forward step which promises so much
for. the economic and financial free
dom not only of the farmers, but the
entire South"
Mr.. Stribling writing President R.
C. Hamer, Of the South Carolina
Cotton Association, said:
"Since we made good, broke the
reduction record--in agricultural
history-by our % to 80 per cent
reduction in cotton acreage against
all old and unsuromuntajble difficult
ties, am prepared to believe we
can put this worthy cooperative
movement across"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
POSTMASTER EXAMINATION
Competition Under Presidents Or
der .September 27.

Competition Under Presidents Or.
der September II.
John Tolbert, recently appointed
temporary postmaster at Abbeville
received notice yesterday of a spe.
cial examination to fill the office per.
manently. The examination will be
held September q under a Especial
order" of the president and not un.
der the civil service rules.
So far as could be learned this
morning Mr.. Tolbert is the only ap.
plicant for the place. 1t is thought
that the examination is mere form
and that no change will be made in
the office here. The salary of the of.
flee is $4,000 a year.
The order reads:
"The United States Civil Service
Commission, at the request Of the
Postmaster General announces "a
competitive examination for postmas.
ter at Abbeville.
"This examination is held under
the Presidents order Of May 10,
1921, and not under the civil ser
vice act and rules. ,..
"Competitors will not be required
to report for examination at any
place, but will be rated upon their
education. and training, business ex.
perience and fitness.
:"Apply to TIE secretary of the
board of civil service examiners at
the post Office in this city or to the
United States Civil Service Commits
sion, Washington, D. c., for appliea-
ton Form 2241, and Form 2213 con-
tanning definite information in re-
gard to the examination.
Applications must be properly
executed on Form 2241, and filed
with the Civil Service Commission,
Washington, D. c., prior to the hour
of closing business on September
27."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
:. EXACTLY RIGHT.

The Press and Banner endorses
every statement in the opinion o.
Justice Cothran in the Gossett case il
which the special terms Of court are
: condemned. The courts are organized
to administer justice. There is nc
Justice where there is not an impair.
tial trial. There can be no half way
ground. A case is either, properly
tried, Or there is no legal trial. If
q man is to be tried. by a biased
Judge, or before biased jury, at
the demands Of mob, which some.
times threaten both the defendant
and the, jury, there is no legal trial.
There is no better way to bring the
law and its administration into fur
ther contempt Of the mob than by
making them subservient 70 the de-
mands of the mob. , ......
It were ten times, better that q
man be ,mobbed outright than by the
forms Of law, he be declared guilty
and sent to his punishment in a court
where exact justice is not. dispensed.
" We, OF; course, in saying this do
; not mean to express any opinion on
the guilt or the innocence of the
party accused in this case. That will
be determined when there is an i'm
partial trial, and on that we all may
afford to wait. -, -
What we do mean to say is that a
court called to try a man under the
circumstances under which Gossett
was tried is no more capable of deal
ing out justice than would be the
members Of the mob itself. If that is
the case then the court correctly calls
the Judgment of such court "judi-
cial lynching." And it is true. 2.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
FORD COMPANY HAS
$54,000,006 IN CASH

Lansing, Mich, Sept. 1.-The Ford
Motor company has in the neighbor-
hood of 100000 in cash in the
bank, according to a report rendered
the Department of State here. The
report, it was stated by the secre.
tary of state has not been officially
accepted because of minor errors and
may be returned to the company fol-
correction. The financial statement in
the report will not be made public
until it has been officially accepted
by the department, it was announced
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
CHILDREN WITHOUT FOOD

Riga, Sept. LIN one of Russia's
starving regions, the Tartar republic
even the children will receive no food
after tomorrow, according to an.
nouncement published by the Izvestia
today. ...... .<....&
Twenty-Five thousand children main
tanned by the State institutions will
be dismissed, while 100000 fed under
the card rationing syst TEN, also have
received their last supplies, the an
nouncement said. Tn. monthly re-
serve Of the Tartar government to
the amount of seventy cars Of bread
seventeen cars of cereal and two cars
Of sugar have been exhausted and no
further supplies are ir sight.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
A CLEMSON CADET.

Harold Tate is being congratulated
by his many friends these days fol
he was the successful contestant for
the Clemson scholarship. Harold fin
ished at the high school this spring
and will go to Clemson when the
college opens. He is a bright, am
bilious boy and will uphold Able
ville's representation. Harold is a
star player on the high school team
and no doubt will be Tiger before
.le finishes his course.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02

The Mirrors of Washington" re-
fleet the statement that the Hardings
do not want to be considered as in
any way exclusive. To adopt their
own way of expressing it, they want
to be considered "just folks" Father
Harding has recently undertaken tc
prove the statement true.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
Trouble Regarded a. Religious

London, Sept. 1.-The grave dis
turbances in Belfast, which gave
come in the midst Of the most deli
cate peace negotiations with Ireland
were occupying the attention Of the
entire English press today.
Some correspondents Of London
newspapers in Belfast designate the
present trouble as purely religious,
and it is certain that this element
enters into the conflict to a more or
less degree, as always has been the
case in Ulster politics.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02

ties of the rifemen but at 9, p. M,
they were resumed and police rein
forcements were hurried to the To-
cality. On the arrival Of the curfew
hour matters quieted, but through
out the night occasional shots were
heard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02

If cotton keeps ON going up, per-
haps there will be something to talk
about except the boil weevil. Maybe
somebody will say something about
paying debts. We hope however that
this subject won't be mentioned to
us.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02

Col. Dale Barksdale says that cot
ton will sell for fifty cents per pound
by spring. Frank Nickles says that
Mr.. Ed Calhoun, in his lifetime, used
to saw that Dale didn't know thing
about the price Of cotton, 'but I GER
tainly do like to hear him talk"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
CONTINUES
HOLD IN BELFAST
TOLL OF GUNMEN AND SHIPPERS
REACHES FIFTEEN WITH
LARGE NUMBER INJURED.
LOYALISTS AND SINN FEM.
ERS STAGE FIGHTS.

Belfast, Sept. 1.-Although thu
truce between the discordant fac
tions is being completely observed
throughout the remainder Of Ireland
Belfast again today experienced an
other period of terror from gunner
and shippers. AS a result the deatl
list was augmented by six, while
thirty persons were injured many o1
them seriously.
Today's casualties bring the tota,
death toll for three days Of toiline
to fifteen. There probably have beer
100 persons more or less seriously
injured, of whom numbers were
non-combatant who lucklessly had
veptured into the streets which were
being swept by rifle and revolver
fire.
With some quiet intervals, result
ing from the police putting Shippers
to fight shooting persisted at vari-
GUS sections Of the city from early
until late this evening.
Some times it became so dangerous
as to necessitate the suspension Of
the tramway service. Many workers
were unable to reach their places of
employment and returned to their
homes, while shopkeepers did not
dare open their stores. In some of
the disturbed districts manufacture
ers were compelled to close for the
day, while owing to the failure to
open the shops the streets presented
a deserted appearance.
By mid-afternoon with the fight
ing still proceeding in some areas
between the Ulster loyalists and
Sim Feiners, the total death roll
since Monday night had reached
fourteen. Scores have been wounded,
but the exact number is not known.
Tram cars this morning raced
through the riot district Of North
Queen street and Old Lodge road,
the passengers lying on the floors to
escape the bullets of the rioters but
an Englishman on his honeymoon
trip was shot in the abdomen and is
in a critical condition. Last nights
scenes centered in Royal avenue.
They begin with a determined attack
by a party of snipers. on Crook
street. At the end Of that thorough
fare crowds had assembled on which
heavy revolver fire was opened by a
party of Sim Feiners. A wild stam-
pede resulted.
While some of the crowds ran
along Royal avenue TOWARD Castle
Junction the remainder attempted to
escape along Donegal street toward
the cathedral. They had gone only a
few yards when two youths with caps
pulled down over their faces dashed
over Academy street to the foot
path and commenced firing. The ter
rified crowd raced back toward Royal
avenue many of them falling and be-
ing trampled.
Later operations were opened in
Stanhope street where Sim Feiners
equipped with rifles fired into Lime
street and Old Lodge road. A motor
car temporarily quelled the activi.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

Born to MT. and Mrs. R. P. Nicks,
August 29, daughter,
Frances Elizabeth.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
Thinss That Can't Happen

Thinss Th.. Can't Happen
Congress passes bill to appropri-
ate a billion dollars to aid needy
hootch manufacturers.
Rockyford gives million to provide
free cigarettes to INDECENT.
Woman defes all edicts Of
fashion.
Farmers forget boil weevil worry.
Cotton brings fifty cents a pound.
Soldiers get bonus
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
Advice We Wish We Hadn't Heedet

Advice We Wish We Hadn't Needed
Sit steady in the boat. Cotton will
sell for fifty cents by Christmas.
i Buy May cotton.
Sell October cotton.
Buy. that piece Of land; it's sure
to double in value.
Buy railroad bonds.
Buy any bond.
Continue to live.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02

The Surveyor General Of Real Es-
tate is a new officer created by
"Cussing" Dawes. His duties will
probably be to give the flower plots
in the white house grounds their
proper shape.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02
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The boil evil continues TO be the
principal topic Of the day.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02

Thirteen hundred cars Of boxed
apples, costing 100000 were froz-,
en- in shipment last year. ,.
There are 100000 hunters in the
U. s. judging from the number of
game licenses issued in 1920.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-09-02

It's a wise owl that can risk "sell-
ing short" these days.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18

Ii pfinuceni pfiznati, re nazev
Bratislava jest MAVEN pdvod-
MIN. TAX mad'arsky universit-
nj professor Glen mad d'arske.
Academic DIR. Theodor Ort-
van v knize "Dejiny mesta
Prespurku", vydane 1892, W.
slovne a S rozhodnosti tvrdi,
re mad arsky nazev Poszony
jest podobnym zmad' arstenim
slovanskeho nazvu Bratislava,
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18

jako nemecky nazev Press
burg jest jeho znemcenfm. Ho-
spodafsk4n stykdm mezi obe-
ma zememi, Sc takovyrnto SOW
nistickym a historii neoduvod-
nenym postupem mad 'arskych
dradG ovsem slouzi pramalo,
Pfirozene by Jim utrpel j pfi-
pravny orientalni trh v Pesti,
Sktery tam bude uspoTadan bu-
doucim jarem.
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18

ri. Mad arske lrady ignoruji a
"neuznavaji' nazev Bratisla-
va. Pro ne existuje jedine mad
Poszony, nejvyse nemecky
Pressburg. V ReSti necht6ji vi
dovati cestovnf pasy, vydane
do Bratislavy a zakazali tam
vyvGSovati .plakaty Orientami-
no trhu Bratislave. A pfece
sami historikove mad arSti by
The Ocala banner., 1921-10-07
# BACKACHY OR
KIDNEYS BOTHER
Eat less meat and take . glass oi
Salts to flush out Kidneys
Drink plenty water.

Uric acid in meat excites the kidneys,
they become overworked; get sluggish,
ache, and feel like humps Of lead. The
urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is irri-
tated, and you may be obliged to seek re-
lief two or three times during the night.
When the kidneys clog you must help
them flush off the body's urinous waste
or you'll be real sick person shortly.
At first you feel a dull misery in the kid
ney regio you suffer from backache,
sick headache, dizziness, stomach gets
sour, tongue coated and you feel rheu-
matte twinges when the weather is bad.
Eat less meat, drink lots of water;
also get from any pharmacist four ounces
of Jad Salts; take tablespoonful
in glass Of water before breakfast
for Few Gays ana your kidneys will
then act fine. This famous salts.is made
from the acid Of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with iithia, and has been used
for generations to clean clogged kidneys
and stimulate them to normal activity,
also to neutralize the acids in urine, so
it no longer is source of irritation,
thus ending bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot in
jure; makes delightful effervescent
Whitewater drink which everyone should
take now and then to keep the kidneys
clean and active Druggists here say
they sell let's of JAd Salts to folks who
believe in overcoming kidney trouble
while it is only trouble.
The Ocala banner., 1921-10-07

B the future viii consist Of garages with
q sleeping room connected with them
Eation (Colo.) Herald.
4 Time viii tell, but 1t has nothing
on small brother, as any girl can
tell you.
A man who gets into society may
expose his ignorance while his wife
y viii just expose herself.
i Too many of tha men who fee temp
tation are afflicted with leaden feet.
IN card game even a brunette
should be fair.
Onions or grouchy disposition
win keep friends away from even
the best of men
Another reason why some women
have such sour dispositions is be-
cause they insist on wearing mum
i ber two shoe on a number FIVE foot.
You cannot always Judge tie sue.
Icess Of 4 mans life BY the size Of his
funeral.
Wives Of tigiltwads may not OBJ
iect to wearing their skirts longer,
but they do object to wearing the
skirt they have any longer. Hus-
bands of such please make a note
of it.
/ We have often observed that the
fellows who wait for something to
turn up finally turn up as walters
in a cheap hash foundry
What young man likes his girl
to have is good looks. divine form
and sweet disposition. What she
insists on his having is plenty Of
money.
| Geese lay the best eggs from the
point of view of nutrition, but there
isn't much nutrition in row of goose
eggs for a ball game
The oldfashioned man who tried
all the patent medicines for what
allied him has son who tries all
the bootlegger's stun for the same
reason.
Many wife, these days. misses
the oder Of cloves on her husbands
breath.
It doesn't take the average wom-
an naerIy SO long to change her mind
as it does her dress.
The old-fashioned wife who used
to ..handle the reinss now has a
daughter who takes me wheel.
julius Caesar was not the only
man to be stabbed to death by his
friends.
The Ocala banner., 1921-10-07
civiLITY

Visitors to New York lately have
been struck with the big signs which
decorate the sides Of the Fifth avenue
buses. They carry just the one word
"civility.' When you mount to the
towering top Of one of the numbering
vehicles, you find a bit of an explana-
tion The employees, so the company
states, have been instructed to be
courteous The public IS asked to
help them in their endeavor to score
a. 100 per cent in civility. Whether
the New York public is responding to
this appeal or not, the bus employees
plainly show the effect of the new re.
gime. To appreciate their gallant be-
hayier one must have previously ex.
perienced the erstwhile rough-neck
methods Of bus and street car conduc-
tors in New York Perhaps no other
public in the world would SO long have
endorsed their bullying commands Of
Hurry up, there, and step lively I
But the New York public and the Wis.
itors to Manhattan appreciate the new
order Of civility, and quickly catch the
idea that their cooperation is wanted
and needed.
For that is the big idea. In New
York, u Columbus, Or anywhere else,
We cannot expect ciyility unless We
are ourselves civil. Like breeds ike,
and starts en- endless chain. Jua Tia
suggestion u one printed word
the bus ride Is changed from alI
lrible exne1ience of 5oslisssg ana h..t.
The Ocala banner., 1921-10-07
WITS AND FUNNIES


Early Fall Limeriel<s
There was an old Turk in TheTInopylae
Who Of wives longed to have mon
opylae.
said he: I'll just scare EN-
Right into my harem
II the silly things won't be wen
propylae."
A clergyman told from his text
How Samson was barbered and vest.
He told it so true
That man in pew
Got ratified and shouted out, Next"
a maiden at college named Breeze,
Weighed down by B. AS and N. Deeze,
Collapsed from the strain.
Said her doctor: '"Tis plain
You are killing yourself BY degreeze."
Legion.
The War Department viii save s40,-
100000 this year. We would like to
learn their system. South Charleston
(O.) Sentinel.
"The rapidly increasing divorce
rate, remarked the wit, indicates
The Ocala banner., 1921-10-07

that America IS indeed becoming the
land OF the free.
Eyes, replied his prosaic friend
but the continued marriage rate sug-
gests that it Is still the home Of the
brave
Face Homage
Fair maia, those rosy lips Of yours
I love in every mood,
Now uttering honeyed words and now
Impertinently rude.
Ii lore them. when / see them smile,
AS my greetings pay;
II love them, when they droop with
grief,
try in vain to stay.
one shape alone from these fond eyes
No appreciation wins
TO see those ruby lips pursed up
TO hold row Of pinsl
Wayside Tales.
Very few ladies
Need worry about
Tripping
Nowadays
BY catching their
Heels in the
Hem of their
Skirts.
st. Augustine Record.
The saving grease Of common sense
iubricates the squeaking wheels of
daily life Chicago Journal Of Com
'nsfc 4-z&E4
The Demonstrator-This cake is
made from our celebrated sugar, but
ter and egg substitutes. Will You try
a piece sir?
Mr.. Younghusband 1t looks very
nice. but notice you don't eat it your
self.
- tnccIlul IldA goes nOIu6 at night
and makes lemonade out of the lemons
handed him during the day Clare
mont (yao Herald.
Those Pilgrim fathers were in luck.
They got here before the English
quota for 1920 was exhausted Vino
IA Republican-Herald.
Another imported problem is that
If reducing the habitual bootleggers
% a state of unremunerated employ
nent. Washington Star.
Passports no longer are necessary
or an American citizen going into
Mexico. All he needs is the dinero.
San Fracisco Chronicle.
The resident portions Of cities of