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Abbeville Press and Banner! Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C. Monday, September 13, 1920 Single Copies, Five Cents. 77th Year. I - Nl ? COX UNDER CARE 7 Or SPECIALISTS f I .ar SUFFERING NOW WITH SERI-,cr i th OUS THROAT TROUBLE? e() LARYNGITIS DEVELOPS. PHY-'de I i 1 SICIAN ADVISES CUT IN! su SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS? i NOMINEE REFUSES. ATTENDS! ' PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. :an y Portland, Ore., Sept. 12.?Goverr m; nor Cox, whose throat has been giv- ' w ing him trouble during the past few days of his campaign tour of the West, was examined today by a r specialist who declared the gover- ur nor's throat was in bad condition and advised him to cancel some of his speaking engagements. This Governor Cox declared emphatical ly he would not do. The trouble was diagnosed as speaker's laryngitis. The physician, Dr. Charles T. Chamberlain, a son of Senator fo Chamberlain, was called in this w< morning after Governor Cox ar- M rived from Seattle and prescribed an massage treatment and obtained a o massauer who agreed to accompany Re the Democratic nominee on his trip th tomorrow to Salem, Ore., and possi- du bly continue further on the trip. A crowd of about 100 persons, nij . including many women, was at the ha station when the governor's train co arrived at 7:40 this morning, but Dr. J. C. Smith, state Democratic chairman, after conferring with C. members o ft^e candidate's party, |ln' said the governor desired more restM't and would meet the reception com- thi mittee at 9 o'clock. ">< % Governor Cox had announced' he cr< desired a quiet Sunday and would attend church services. Several churches extended, invitations, but not until the governor and Senator Chamberlain started for West , va Minister Presbyterian, cuurch was cr< any intimation given as to where the visitor would worship. At the church the governor refused to be ^ ushered down the aisle and sat near . , tel the door. He listened to a sermon by the Rev. Dr. Edwaid H. Pence. !"! , Ki The governor is to speak at the ^ armory at Salem Monday morning . and will return to Portland in time an to SDeak at the auditorium here ^ uw Monday at noon and at 3:30 p. m. gr The governor is to leave Monday ^ night for Salt Lake City, but owing Al to the condition of his voice it was o expected he would not make any rear platform speeches for two or three days. ^ or Salem, Oregon, Sept. 12.?Governor James M. Cox, Democratic nominee for president, was honor guest here at dinner tonight given informally by local Democrats. The u candidate made no speeches, being under instruction from his physician to let his throat rest until tomorrow, when he is scheduled to speak once here and twice at Portland. _ _ o ICE PLANT RUNNING I jth< The local ice plant which has'va been closed down four or five days for repairs on the boiler which sprung a leak last Wednesday, com- ^ menced operations again Sunday night and barring further accidents 0? will be turnig out ice by Wednesday morning. In the meantime ice is be- eR ing bought from other points and u shipped into Abbeville, so as to cause as little inconvenience as SQ] possible. ne PARENT-TEACHER'S ASSOCIATION The first meeting of the ParentTeacher association for this session Po will be held at the High School b building on Greenville Street, Tues- in day afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. A Ar full attendance of the members and bv friends of the association is expect- of ed to lay out plans for this session's fiv v.i.r1u and to arrange for the recep- wa I lor for the new teacher?. th< / DR. P. K. BLACK DIES Dr. P. K. Black, of Mt. Carmel, ed in a hospital in Augusta Friday ght, his death resulting from in- { ries received by him when his aumobile was hit by a Charleston id Western Carolina train, at a ossing near Mt. Carmel, some ree weeks ago. Dr. Black sustainI injuries to his spine in the acci- 1 nt, which completely paralized his 1 iver limbs, and which finally re- ^ Ited in his death. Dr. Black had resided at Mt. Car- ' el for many years. He was a phy- 1 :ian with a large country practice 1 id was greatly loved and respected : his neighbors and friends. He ' arried a Miss McAllister some 1 renty-five years ago. Mrs. Black is 1 i aunt of our towsnman, Mr. H. R. j cAllister. They have several chil en, among them Miss Black who is a teacher in our public schools J( me years ago. ;1 The funeral services were held at |1 s home in Mt. Carmel Sunday. i SECEDER NEWS i / 1 The services of the Associate Re- j rmed church Sabbath morning ] ;re of unusual interest, in that < r. Robert S. Ellis was installed as t . elder and Mr. Gallman as a dea- ) n TViq cormnn wnc nrp?(?ViPfJ hv t ;v. Mr. Stevenson of Clinton and e ordination services were conicted by Mr. Plaxco. c Mr. Stevenson preached at the t ?ht services alsoNand what he had ] d to say was of interest to the 1 ngregation. i In the afternoon the Junior Y. P. ( U., held an open meeting and an jteresting program in which each ? tie child had a part was rendered ; e singing was done entirely by x e little folks and reflected; great , edit on them. <] TWO STILLS DESTROYED \ Deputy Sheriff T. L. Cann was in raiding party on the Island in Sa- ^ nnah River just at the Seaboard jssing Sunday. A boy hunting ^ iscadines ran on a distilling appatus and quickly gave the news to icers at Calhoun Falls. G. 0. Hall lephoned the news to Mr. Cann d he got busy. With Mr. Hall, j chard Martin and Policeman R. L. ant, of the Fall's force, he. went g the place indicated by the boy ^ d there found two stills, one of g enty gallons capacity and the oth- ^ of sixty gallons capacity. The lat- , r was not yet completely installed, j >out 1200 gallons of mash was aK ( found which was destroyed, the g lis being taken in charge. t At the place where the stills were ptured tents, bedding, provis- < is and cooking utensils were and, indicating that the parties ire staying on the ground for the rpose of plying their trade. ' jt] No one has yet been apprehended j ] t the officers hope in the next few ir ys to produce the guilty parties, t 1 o NOT OUR MRS. ANDERSON , b Last week the Greenwood Index- jy umal carried a notice of the re- ^ irery of Mrs. J. M. Anderson at S) 1 Greenwood Hospital. The notice ^ s copied by this paper under the j pression that it was Mrs. Anderi, formerly of this place. It now ms out that there are four J. M. idersons in Greenwood and all them married. We are glad to n ow that it was not our Mrs. And- ^ ?on, and to be able to state that c 2 is assisting Mr. Anderson to * pn rma nf tVio lnrcroct nnrl Kpof sic. V [ ted stocks of dry goods, milli- n ry, etc., . ever opened in Green- 11 od. I ASHLEY SECURES BAIL Ernest Ashley who shot and killed liceman Hughes of Honea Path out two weeks ago, and who^w ice has been confined in the jail at t< derson has been admitted, to bail s1 Judge George E. Prince, Judjre A the Tenth Circuit, in the sum of jci e thousand dollars. Ashley s case q is continued by Judfre Prince until t] ? next term of c^urt.' 'a Air Mail Service Bids Now On File ) Overhead Route Between New York And Atlanta Established Soon. ?Columbia to Be Collec? tion Center. Washington, Sept. 11?Bids were received at the postoffice department ;oday for the air mail route from New York to Atlanta via Columbia, rhis was the last day for such bids to 3e received from those intending to :arry these mails. Today it was impossible to say just when they would ill be considered or an award made, jut it is assumed that with the usual red tape surrounding such matters, it kvill be a week or more at the earliest :efore they are canvassed and an iward made. This will, in many respects, be one )f the most important enterprises established in Columbia since the announcement that Camp Jackson ivould be located there at the beginning of the war. Columbia, when this air mail filan begins, will be an im J ;)ortant collection center for mailsj ?oing South towards Atlanta and tforth to New York. It will be a splen iid saving of time in mails from and :o Columbia business men and othervise will mark an advance in the nty's commercial progress. Washington, Sept. 11?Bids were >pened at the postoffice department ;oday for airplane service between ^ew York and Atlanta, Ga.f via SVashington, Raleigh, N. C., and Collmbia, S. C. Alfred W. Lawson, of: Uhicago offered a bid of $300,000.Tha lepartment said that awards on th? )ids would probably be made within i few days. Mr. Lawson offered, if iwarded contracts, to furnish planes vith a carrying capacity of six tons md a speed of 120 miles an hour, rhey will also carry from 10 to 30 passengers. He agreed to begin service November 15 on one of the routes, to be selected later/, and to proride equipment for the entire system jefore the middle of next winter. .IGHTNING KILLS MULES AND BURNS BARNS' During the thunder shower Thursay evening of last week a bolt of ightning struck a barn on the planation of Lewis Jackson, four miles iouth of Abbeville, instantly killing wo mules in the stables on the round floor and setting fire to the am, by which the barn was entireV consumed. One of the mules be>nged to Mr. Jackson and the other [) <x iiegiu tenant, xne uaiu wao <x ' mall and not very expensive strucjre, but the loss is considerable. [ENNEDY MAGILL ON COMMITTEE Five major activites will engage iie attention of the South Carolina eveloument board coring the relaining months of 1920, according > a decision reached at the meeting f the board of control of the board eld in Columbia. The questions to e given immediate attention are: [arkets, live stock, industrial re- j sarch, drainage and health and anitation. W. Kennedy Magill of ( .bbeyille is on the sub-committee of . ve stock Sanitation. WILL RETURN TO ATLANTA . \ Thomas H. Cobb, who recently ; tioved back to Abbeville to care for lis mother, since her death has deided to return to Atlanta. He finds hat Wages are better for his class of c /ork in that city, and employment tiore steady, while the cost of living s no greater than here. He is offering his home in Fort 'ickens for sale. COL. SPARKS APPOINTED Col. Joe Sparks, who is pretty rell known around Abbeville is af- ^ ?r the people in fifteen different Lates. He has just been appointed * .ssistant Treasurer of the Demo- * ratic party. He will locate his head- * uarters in Columbia and will work ' le states from Maryland to Texas I nd Oklahoma. ( Court Adjourns Sine Die Saturday Several Negroes Receive Prison Terms of from Five Years To Lifetime?Order* Taken for Forfeit of Bond's. The term of the Court of General1 Session which convened here last] Monday adjourned Saturday morning| after transacting a great deal of business, and practically clearing thej criminal docket. Judge Ernest Moore i handled the business of the court with courtesy towards everybody but with great dispatch. The Solicitor, officers of the court and the lawyers generally attended upon the sessions in a business manner, greatly aiding ?,he court :r winding up the business1 which it was intended to do. When we went to press Friday af-j ternoon the jury in the case of John, Sibert was out. They later in the af- J ternoon returned a verdict of not , guilty. Sibert shot his father-in-law ; in a family fuss, the father-in-law according to the testimony being af- ( ter John with a rifle. John used a shot gun which would not shoot asi, far as the rifle, but which "scatter ed" and hit in more places. 1 The court was engaged Friday af ternoon in the trial of Cooter Hamil- < ton charged with murder. Cooter shot!, another negro, "his best friend," he said, at a hot supper given for the . benefit of the church in Antreville, section. Although he shot his best friend Cooter did not go back to see! I! how badly he was wounded, but wentj^ home and went to sleep "in a min-|( ute." The State's witnesses, told it a'j little different from Cooter. Theyj^ said Cooter had a bier pistol which he!, was flourishing about the '"hall where the supper was being given and Bee Stark had shot his man and everybody was hiding under the bed j under tables, and behind the stove, j Cooter snatched out his bull-dog andj told it to bark at the crowd, resulting' in the death of his friend. The juryj found Cooter guilty of manslaughter.; After motions for new trials had been argued Saturday morning in the cases of Bee Starke, Dave Barksdale and Cooter Hamilton each received overruled, the court sentenced Bee Starke to a life term on the gang or in the penitentiary. Dave Barksdale and Cooter Hamilfc&n eache received twelve years on the same institutions while Jesse Freeman drew five. Orders were taken by the Solicitor requiring the sureties on the bonds of j Will Kay, charged with murder, and| .n several other cases, to show cause on the first day of the next term of the court why judgment should not be rendered against them, the principals having skipped while \>ut uiyteri bond. The usual orders having been assigned Judge Moore adjourned court at 10 o'clock Saturday, and left for his home that day at iz:iy over tne Seaboard. CAPTAIN HUMBERT STRICKEN. J N ] Saturday morning a message came :o Abbeville addressed to Mr. J. B. Humbert, engineer in charge of the Highways informing him Of the fact chat his father Capt. J. B. Humbert, ? of Laurens County, had suffered a't 3troke of paralysis at Honea . Path^ that morning. Mr. Humbert had just'a left for Columbia when the message ^ arrived, but it was forwarded to him at that point. _ A SENIOR Miss Edna Bradley leave Wedneslay for Brenau where she will take j ip her work as a dignified senior. jr Hiss Bradley has taken a high stand jt it Brenau much to the pleasure of|f er Abbeville friends. ic !c MORE HOUSES I President White, of the Home 3uilding Corporation, #is about ^ eady to begin work on the houses , o be built on the land recently ) )ought from the Cabell estate on ( Chestnut Street. The corporation j las completed a lovely bungalow on Magazine street which is now offer-1 :d for sale. 11 DEATH OF MRS. EVANS Mrs. Leila Gibert Evans, widow of the late John G. Evans, of this county, died at Charletson Saturday morning at 4 o'clock from Malaria. Her body was brought to Abbeville Sunday and was laid to rest in the Lebanon cemetery at 11 o'clock that day, the funeral services wete conducted by her pastor, the Rev. J. B. Hillhouse assisted by Dr. J. L. Martin, of Abbeville. The dea\h of Mrs. Evans was unexpected. She left her home in the Lebanon section last Tuesday to go to Charleston to be with her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Ferrell, who is ill in a hospital in that. city. Soon after reaching Charleston she developed a malignant type of malaria which resulted in her death within foui days of the time she was stricken. Mrs. Evans was born and reared in this county. She was a sister of the Misses Gibert of the Lebanon section, and of Hon. J. S. Gibert. She was married many years ago tt) Mr. John G. Evans, also of this county. He died four years ago. Mrs. Evans is survived by two sons and four daughters: Mr. Charles Evans, a divinity student at Columbia Theological Seminary, Mr. Pettigrew Evans, of Hartsville, Mrs. Jack Hardin of Rome Ga., .Mrs. M. C. Sanders, of Greenville, S. C., Mrs. Lucy Ferrell, of Greeleyville, and Miss Annie Reed Evans, of Greenville. The deceased was all her life, since maturity, a member of the Presbyterian church. % She consecrated her life to the training of tier children in the faith of their fathers. She died as she lived, in the iiope of the Resurrection. MANY PAY INCOME TAX More Than Five Million Firms And Individuals. Washington, Sept. 11.?More than 5,600,000 firms and individuals are paying income taxes this year, according to figures made public tonight by the bureau of . internal revenue. These figures also reveal that practically 3,000,000 taxpayers have already paid their income taxes in full. The bureau's statement shows thai 4,900,000 persons are paying income taxes in incomes of $5,000 or less and that fewer than 600,000 of this number have not paid their taxes in full, choosing the alternative method of payment by installments. Individual rotnrriQ fnr inrnmes in excess of S5. 000, including those individuals are firms numbered, 700,000. Approximately half of his number have paid all income taxes to the government in the first two tax installments, the bureau figures show.. Nearly 350,000 corporations have filed tax incomes but only 65,000 have paid their taxes in full. Commissione Williams in the statement also called attention that the third installment of income and profit taxes comes on September 15. I IN GAFFNEY Gaffney, Sept. 12.?From appearince the negroes in Cherokee Couny are behaving themselves and the (rhite people are violating the law is there are at present in the Cherolee county jail a dozen white people who are charged with stealing ,nd one negro. JUDGE GARY RECOVERS Judge Frank B. Gary has so far ecovered from his recent illness as o be able to go to Anderson for the mrpose of continuing the term of ourt now in session. Judge Gary ;per.ed court there this morning. TAKING A REST. Capt. W. J. Bryson, one of the jest conductors on the Seaboard, left Sunday for a mcnths' stay with his nother at Cashiers, N. C. He went ;hrough the country in his new Overnnd car. In India nearly every privat lcure has a tennis court. 40 CENT C0H0N "j TO BE SLOGAN 1 ' ' , r AT COUNTY RALLIES?FARMERS, BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN AND WOMEN | CALLED TO MEET MONDAY, | SEPTEMBER 20TH, TO STAND J i THE AMERICAN COTTON AS- | SOCIATION. Columbia, Sept. 12.?Farmers, merchants, business men, professional 1 men, and women of the State have been called to assemble at their coun- ; ly beai at 11 o ciock on Tine morning i of Monday September 20th, for the '('|j purpose of formally entering into the J * fight for 40 cent cotton.' The day his . 5 been set aside as "Cotton Day" and will be observed as such in every state in the cotton belt. The Govern- . o r of every Southern State is expect- 3 ' ed to issue a proclamation calling on % 1 the people to assemble on that day. J The cooperation of all agricultural departments, colleges, extension -Vf|| workers, county agents and organiza- Jj tions of every nature has been asked. I R. C. Hamer, president of the j South Carolina Division of the Amer | ican Cotton Association, said today ^ i that at each meeting three subjects * J will constitute the outstanding, fea- . ,'^f i tures of the program: First, plans for holding the cotton of the county y.'j|S until fair an;d just prices can be ob- >. | tained, together with plans for co- j operative marketing. Second, plans ^ for fully utilizing warehouses and 4 warehouse facilities of the county and for erecting additional warehouses with special emphasis in this li connection on practical plans for fin- v.| j ancing the crop. Third, plans for ? J 11 immediately increasing the acreage J in fall sown small grains, also cove^.lrl ' crops as the one wise and certain * plan of effecting a redaction in cot- v 1 . fnn nr?rpatrf> nledcM to this effect to ; be taken. -j "The importance of providing & 1 proper financial relief to gaolers holding cotton," said Mr. Hamer,"" : "makes the southern bankers almost | i the keystone of our structure and we 1 therefore wish to urge that the bank- | ers of the state lend their full aid , in the fight which we are making : :jfor better prices and the cotton day Jj Ij meeting to be held in each county j on Sept. 20th. President Hamer said i that every effort would be made to* -i make the day a notable one in the . history of South Carolina. .OOKOUT BOYS! CIRCUS COMING JO TOWN | Jas. A Hill has signed a contract with Sparks Bros., for a Circus for Abbeville. It will be given here Oc- ^ tober 6th. Before signing the contract Mr. Hill interviewed Maj. Fulp who promised to allow all boys V "n who got on the honor roll for the ' i first month to go provided they pay j their own way. 11 Sparks Bros, circus is one of the best on the road, and there is fun oming as well as elephants. There J will be peanuts, pop corn red lemonade, balloons and other such circus doings. It is time for the boys to get down to study. It would be well to save a few nickles and dimes also. | VISITORS EXPECTED . Mrs. Lewis Perrin, little Elizai. . . _ , . , . , betn and jl. w. Jr., are expected m i Abbeville Tuesday for a stay of a * 3 | week with Mrs. T. G. White. The little boy calls himself "Buckie Jr.," |which has a familir sound to Abbeville people. THE COTTON MARKET I I The cotton market closed down Saturday about 100 points. It closed * '|j lanother 60 points down today. The idecline is 'brought about by better j weather reports and talk of curtail ment by mills in England. October I futures closed todav at 27.95. | ; ? J j % a I j