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., . apvr. raws*-?? t . ... . ,v . :-v . - \ v : \' . * ?- ; I S i '. ? ' v"*y!:-; "V' h ' n .' ': . .* V ' - ' '.'V' f*'.- WMM ' m v I Abbeville Press and Banner Y.? Abbeville, S. C.. Friday, April 25,1919 Sin.l. Cpie., Fh? / IGNORING THE BOYS : ATM COTTON MILL lie Mill Gives a Delightful Supper! 4o the Young Men Who Went to j War From the Village?Major | Tillman, Speaker of Evening. Maj. Hemphill a Guest. Major Henry C. Tillman has' irown off the uniform of the soldier, resume the habit of the court and " " "" ?* *- {canan1 inds mmseii content wnu lOOUWW _ it arms in the great world war in phich he played a not inconspicuous >art. Such is the influence . of en-j ironment that Henry, as his friends,' all him, has broadened into a well!, ounded citizen of the world. Born n Edgefield, trained in Charleston lor the practice of law in Green-. rood, killed his quota of Huns, preumably, he has not been spoiled by; dulation. One of these days, possily, he will run for office?the de-: ire for this sort of thing is in his flood?and when he runs he will Lnd all his comrades in arms rooting ! or him and a fair majority of thei ommon people casting their ballots or him. v I Henry was in Abbeville last Mon-j . i [ay night, He came here to speak | t the dinner ^jven by the cotton i lill company to the young men who ! rent from the Abbeville mill village o serve in the Army of .Freedom.: t cannot be repeated too often that,! esides being one of the most pros-; terous mills in the State and the best. quipped for the comfort of its peo-; [e and its people "home folks" of igh quality; it must be added to I be lasting glory of this institution j bat one man for every fifteen resi-; ents of the village?counting men, romen and children?rallied to the, olors when the call to arms was! ounded. The dinner Monday night was all hat heart could wish or the genius >f the kitchen autocrats provide. Foster Barnwell, president of the aill, presided with rare grace at the estive board but the ladies who! eally made the occasion a gastronobic triumph were, Mrs. Barnwell, tfiss Boyd and Miss Wood. The dinner over the entire company repairid to the village auditorium where tfajor Tillman delivered his speech j ifter he had been properly introduc-l fd by William P. Greene, as among j hose present when the Hindenburg jine was broken. Major Tillman rould not admit that he had really $ propria persona smashed the Hinlenburg Line but generously insisted hat this Liile had been cracked I n a number of places and that it millH not. Hp 'fnirlxr plnimo^ tliat artir particular State had turned this trick I 11 by itself. Major Tillman paid a most elo-1 juent tribute to the little blue-clad | oldier of France for his immortal | :ourage, was moved to. speak fromi i full heart of the striking dissimi-! arity of the food at the Community Jouse and the grand old Army: Jeans at the front in France. He! vas reminiscent and tender by turns j >ut always suggestive in his counsel j x> the young fellows who had comej >ack from over there to help build, i greater state. He charged those! *ho had been privileged to go to | ;he front that they must not in any! vay seek to discredit the courage and; levotion of the very large body of >ther soldiers who were in training | it home for service abroad and who! rare just as anxious and ready to. ight on foreign soil as their more! fortunate comrades who were taken! ? the front. The boys in training j pere were in all respects as much de-j Serving of praise and honor as the j lolditrs who went over. Major Till-1 y ? nan.-illustrated his point with a lom&y story about a negro base >ajl^|ame. In passing he asked the igh|j?eider % "How does the score itani?" "Seventeen to nothing igainat us," replied the right-fielder. 'Well, that's pretty bad," observed jfr. Tillman?that was before he be! ... i I vt-.w WAR SAVINGS COM. LOCAL CHAIRMAN Captain William R. Timmoni M^kes Appointment?Central Committee of Four to Act in Advisory Capacity?Dr. McMurray, Chairman. . Captain Wm R.. Timmons, Director of the Educational and Rural Division of the War Loan Organization^ Fifth Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, Va., was in the city Monday afternoon conferring with Dr. C. H. McMurray, who has been appointed chairman of War Savings for Abbeville County. Dr. McMurray will have a Central Committee of four besides himself, who will act in an advisory capacity and forward the movement' in dif lerent uivisiuua ui one m/ia. amv&v will be one member for activities in 4 the Industrial field; one for Educational and Rural; another for Agencies, and another for Women's. It is not expected that much will be accomplished before the end of the Victory Loan but after the bounty goes "over the top" in that it is expected that the War Savings movement .will* occupy the center of attention. *The Federal .Government through the Treasury Department is seeking in the 1919 War Savings Campaign to promote permanent habits of saving and investment, and to lay well the foundations of a peace-time prosperity. It proposes to convert the American people into a nation of sane savers, wise spenders and intelligent investors. The means that will be used is a thorough-going educational campaign teaching the value of saving systematically and of. investing in safe securities, the safest of which is War Savings Stamps offered by the government itself. The War Savings Campaign therefore is distinctly a forward looking movement. It foresees a people happy and prosperous, enjoying the pursuits of a permanent peace; a nation of good citizens, who are owners of Government securities ?and therefore in financial partnership with their Government. It foresees also a Wotherhood of finance, made up of men and women saving in litflo +Vnr?f*a arts? in nAtTA?n v?v viintgj utiu lUTvoma^ Hi uv/vciir ment secures with the consciousnessjthat they are making possible the growth of home industries and the expansion of foreign business. V DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT" WELLINGTON WEDNESDAY ) . Property Loss Will Run Into the Thousands?Twelve Stores Burned. There was a big fire at Willington Wednesday morning, beginning at about half past six o'clock, and de?st'roying twelve of the stores of this enterprising little city .and four box cars on the'railroad. The fire begun in the store room of Alex Lawton and\soon spread to the adjoining buildings. * The following property was detroy^d: the stores belonging to I. H. Porter, Alex Lawton, William Lawton, N. H. McNair, George Lawton, Dr. Cade's bffice. Four seed houses, one ice house, four box cars. There is no definite knowledge as to the origin of the fire, the supposition now being that it was started by rats. The loss runs into the thousands and is greatly regretted by the many well wishers of the Viic+nrir* town GONE TO GRAND OPERA. Mrs. H. A. Benton and Miss Williams went over to Atlanta this week to take in Grand Opera. came a Major. "No, sah," insisted the right-fielder, "you see this is only the first inning and we aint come to the bat yet" SHE REMEMBI 0 Mrs. Fannfe Marshall Writes of the Departure and Return of Abbeville Soldiers?Capt. Jos. Calhoun Takes a Prominent Part. The Mantle of Courage Descends to the Fourth Generation of McKelveys? Safe at Home. I i " 7~ Having passed 'my 84th Mile j Stone, I will ^ive you some of my I recollections of six wars. First.?In 1836, the Indian or | Seminole War in Florida was dc clared. . My father, Captain Joseph Cal| houn, had served eight years in the United States Army, was in the War of 1812, wounded in the Battle of Lundy's Lane, from which he never entirely recovered, and not being able to command a Company, he was ; commissioned by the United States Government to raise and drill a company to be sent to Florida. In a short time over a hundred men in the neighborhood of Calhoun Mills enlisted. Thomas Parker, father of Dr.. Edmond Parker, was J made Captain; James Taggart, First | Lieutenant; and William Calhoun, i Second Lieutenant. As a child of five years old, I can J well remember goin with my j father to the mill yard to see him ; drill this company. In a month theyi ( nro?o marlir fVio coaf nf wnr. TllP : night before the men left, they came j in big wagons covered with white j ] 'cloth, camped on the hillside'of myj, ihome next to the river- Many fath-! ers and brothers were with them, and with the friends who gathered, made , the biggest crowd I had ever seen,J their camp fires cooking supper, and ] all in high spirits going to fight the;, i Indians made an impression I could never forget. v j; I Next morning at ^arly dawn the , ; camp was broken up, and all start- i j ed? on a march to Augusta, my fath-;, er going with them in his two wheel , gig, covered with blue?the automo- ] ' bile of the day." From Augusta this i company went to Charleston, then by ( I boat to Florida. ' j | The drummer boy who went with | ! this company was James McKelvey, {who inspired the soldier boys with I his good old time music. He. held ( I \ I the same position in the Artillery ] i Company that drilled for many years ! at (Jalhoun Mills. Mr. McKelvey re- i | tained the name of "Drummer Jim" i until his death. His patriotism ha3 existed in hjs family down to the i fourth generation when his great- ; grandson, Captain George McKelvey, i so recently distinguished himself for , bravery on the battlefields in France. ' Second.?I reihember as a school | girl the Mexican War Tn 1846. A | strong company left Abbeville under i I the command of J. Foster Marshall,' i < 'i jwith many of'our best young men! j of the county, who had to face a j treacherous enemy and poisonous i atmosphere of a malarial countr^ to, : which many of them succumbed. | r i Sergeant Selleck of this company was I the first United States soldier to, ; plant the Stars and Stripes on the | walls of Mexico. My what a hero he was when he returned! All the girls; made love to him, but somehow he; liked to go with the school girls. . j The home coming of this company. ;was the biggest gathering ever held i in Abbeville. Men, women and chil- ' ! dren came in wagons the night be-J i fore the Barbecue, and camped onj me nins arouna tne town, ureen-, jwood and McCormick were then fa\ i ; eluded in this Grand Old County, ex-j | tending from Saluda to Savannah: 1 j River. The dinner was in the grove j I which in later years was the old fair ground near the Seaboard Railroad. I do not remember the speakers of the occasion. The preparation and cookine of that dinner was noti forgotten. To see so many beeves and hogs being barbecued over pits of fire, all of the washpots in the town filled with hash and potatoes, together with pones of raised cornbread (the art of making it has been t ; . iM .. f .. J ' -zvXri RS SIX WARS 1 lost) made a scene which lingers in my memory. The booming of the little - brass cannon with the Artillery Band ofj fife and drum made it a gala day. j This cannon'was the pet and treasure of old Abbeville District. During" the War Between the States, it was! sent to the coast and lost. Third.?The war so fresh in the memory of many of us, the Confed-' erate War, with all its sorrows andbitterness, we never can forget. The ' first company left under the com-j1 mand of Captain James Perfin. La- ) dies made red flannel shirts, which ^ was the uniform with black pants. 11 remember we all sewed on Sunday to j' get them ready., r * j1 A crowd went to the Southern De- j] pot to see our first soldiers leave?a 1 fine looking company of one hundred 1 men. * | J There'was no home coming at the| end of nearly five years of war for j ^ our brave men, only a welcome of;1 deepest heart love for those who re- 1 turned, almost one at*a time, and a 1 tear of sorrow for the brave that 1 fell on the battle field. Tn ? i,??. i lucip w as vac nuui ui uic -uoj that all hearts looked anxiously for, 5 the return of the evening train on 1 the Southern from Columbia. If1 ^ good news, our faithful engineer, j * Mr. Syfan, began his whistle atjl Long Cane Bridge, and blew louder* and louder until he Reached the de-:1 pot, where a crowd had gathered.! But if bad report for us from the | * battle field, only a low sounding * dirge was given. i j I Fourth.?The Spanish American t War, where many of our young nfcn| were called. t j? Fifth.?Where many of our young ^ men went to the Borders of Mexicoj ?a year of hardships. j 1 Sixth.?The sixth that began in j I 1914?a World War?the greatest] i war that has ever been. Little did s the grandmothers and mothers of our boys think when / rocking the c cradle and singing their sweet lulla- 1 bys to their dear ones, that they c were raising soldiers to defend our ^ country. Many of these brave boys ( are now filling 9 soldier's grave across the sea?"Peace to their i Ashes." " i On Thursday afternoon the good I citizens, proud of our brave boys in 1 khaki, opened their hearts with a t warm welcome home. The little chil- t dren in that grand parade will in c after years, remember and tell with 1 pride of their taking part in it and 1 may it give them *8 much pleasure as it dfd me to be able to see it all, and'hear that touching, beautiful welcome given by Jud?e Frank B. Gary, and the soldier boy's^address,! ? with a beairf of happiness pictured! ( on his brow to^ell of their experi-j j ence on the'batle fields, and now to: j know and feel that they are sqfe at; ^ home with mothers love and prayers.! ^ Fannie J. Marshall, j, !; AUCTION SALE O'NEILL BLOCK, j On next Tuesday, the old O'Neill; j Block of stores will be sold at public; I < auction by the South Atlantic Realty Company, the sale beginning at ten-thirty in the morning. There, will be an all star brass band to en-| tertain the buyers and the occasion bids fair to be a big one. The old law range behind the block of stores J will be sold also. The Barnwell pro-J" perty, now occupied by the Hot Hustler Racket will be put up for 1 sale. All this property will prove a goodj investment and the promoters of the J sale look forward to a good crowdand some lively 'bidding. I NO NEWS ON CURL TAIL. Col. Thos, P. Thomson came into the office Thursday morning and tells us there is no news. on Curl Tail Creek except-that he has taken up a stray pig and that the set back college is in full blast since Lent is over and Col. Pat Roche is taking on the ways of the world again. i / ^~ V-;~ ' '.i lj mm LOAN DRIVE RACING FOR GOAL Italians Still Holding Out for Spoil*. Wilson Stands Firm?Orlando and 3 Sonnino Said to Have Rejected Compromise Suggested By Allies. Paris, April. 23.?The Italian situation remains unchang:d, according ;o an authoritative^ announcement af ter the meeting of the council of four today. The Italian premier, Vittoria Orlando, while not attending the session of the council, had a series of private conferences and arranged a meeting with Premier Lloyd George ivith a view to seeking a plan of adiustment. . One Compromise proposed to the [talians, making provision for th4 recognition of their claim to Fiume n exchange for the abandonment ol ;heir claim tq^the Dalmatian coast, yas rejected. Although the Italian peace conference delegation made no official statement on the subject, a membei )f the delegation told the Associated Press today .it considered Jt useless :or the Italian delegates to take part jart in further conferences unless ;he allies were willing to grant their equests. -The Italians remain inflexible in heir determination to be allotted all he territory granted them under the >act of Londtyi, ^ritluFiume in addiion. - Tho indignation of the ' Italian lelegation is as strong against the British and French as against the Americans and after the failure ' of Premier Orlando again today to ap>ear at the meeting of the council of 'our the break between the,Italians ind the allies^ became well defined. In the meantime Premier Clemen:eau and Lloyd George and President Wilson are busily considering the juestton of the future of Kiao Chau with Baron Makino and Viscount ^hinda of the Jananese delegation. The American delegates declare imphatically that President Wilson s determined not to yield on the ?iume question. As America waa lot a party to the London treaty, ;he president refused to discuss con; ;roversies arising over the Dalmatian :oast and other countries covered foy ;he secret treaty signed by Italy, France and Great Britain. rRAGEDY ON TRINITY STREET. There was excitement on Trinity street Thursday morning when one )f the fine horses from wnite's sta>le became frightened by having a lalter put on him and bolted across ;he street. The horse ran into the plate glass window of Rosenberg's grocery and hardware store, breaking both glasses #and very nearly revering the horse's two front legs, rhe horse was so badly hurt that it lad to be killed. It was a valuable inimal. THE NEWS WITH MR. HILL. The news with Mr. R. M. Hill or rhurday morning was that he has plenty of strawberries and is eating shortcake every day, and that he ivill have Irish potatoes by the first May. He is keeping up with the Baptists and says he understands hat Brother Stark not only took he Easter collection but he 'swipied' he two handsome vases of flowers ilso. kVVVVVVVV V VV V vvv Si t COTTON MARKET. V w v t Good cotton on-the Abbe- N t ville market brought 28 cents V t. yesterday. May futures V w closed in New ork at 27.80. V t S, kVVVVVVVVVVWVVV ?-> ? VEXED SITUATION STILL UNCHANGED I f / , Official Figures Given Out Include Only Subscription* Supported by First Payments and Recorded Through Federal Reserve v. Banks. * A, Washintgon, April 23,?A quarter , of a billion dollars has been subscribed to the Victory Liberty Loin and , officially reported through banks and < ; federal reserve district headquarters ! to the treasury. This covers probj ably only the first two days of the ' ' subscription period which opened I Monday, and does not include the ' millions of pledges on which subscribers are taking their time to pay the initial installment. Neither does it include officially recorded subpl scriptions which have not been tabu (I lated by banks of which are in ?he ,! process of being reported, to district | headquarters or compiled there. j Only ten of the 12 districts wer? ' represented in figures given out tp- _ j night by the treasury, the Kansas j City and Atlanta headquarters not j having submitted official reports.' For ; these reasons. officials were inclined . j! ' ' ' ? j to believe that the actual subscripj tions already gathered by the mit, lions of volunteer loan x workers j amount to at least a half billion dolj lars. ' ' ' j The first complaints that the treasI ury's official reports do not fairly ini dicate the records of various comi munities reached here today. They ' ! were met with the explanation that I the figures given out by the treasurjr | at ni^ht in most cases wei^e transi mitted bv district manfluors ?Vnnt - / i noon of that day. The district manager also may report the standing I of some cities as of the night before, , and this is reflected in the national j headquarters review a day later, aa | a consequence. ! MISS GRACE JONES MARRIES. i Hon. George S. Mbwer of New- t berry, has^ sent out announcements ' of the marriage of his niece, Miss Grace McHardy Jones to Mr. Oscar ' E. Mauldin, of Greenville, on April ' 1 A+VT of A fcVV,M ?*" "ouctuxc. inxa? JKittUlUlIi, * as Miss Jones has been a frequent | visitor in Abbeville at the home of * J Mrs. L. W. White and she has many friends and relatives here who wish her great happiness. ' U - / %' 1 t t . VISITORS FROM COLUMBIA. Mjr. and Mrs. J. E. McDavid ar? ,! here from Columiba visiting their .1 .nany friends and relatives. They , L made the trip in a handsome car , and aoe taking in all the sights of i ;heir old home. . Mrs. McDavid has , taken a prominent part in the war . i work done in Columbia. I i. ^ . - '.? VISITORS FROM WEDGEFIELD j Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Platte and I their family of interesting children j are in the city from Wedgefield om / j a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ben] ton. They made the trip in their 'j car and are enjoying the many pleas1 j ant drives around Abbeville. 'j ; GOOD ADVICE. ' I i| The slogan now is to "paint up ; and clean up" which good advic* ' might be taken by the city as to the i stalls occupied by Mutt and Jeff and the alley way between White's grocery store and the Fire House. The ; smell reaches to high heaven. A FAST MAIN. Rev. H. D. Corbett went up t? , Greenville recently on business. He , made the trip in his Ford and covered the distance of over sixty mile* in an hour and thirty-five minutes. He made the trip home in less time. \ , ":,/V'.T