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I ? i , t ^ 3Local ? v fie we | . . i i K i personals : i * > R. M. Burts spent Wednesday in Donalds. Mr. G. B. Baskin spent Wednesday in Spartanburg. J"' Mrs. Herman Benton spent Thursday in Atlanta. Mrs. Hugh Bowen, of Level Land, J was in town Tuesday. ' ?? Miss Virginia Aiken, Greenville, is expected to arrive this week to spend the holidays with her parents. Mr. S. C. Seal of Logansville, Ga., was in the city a few days this week visiting his relatives. Mr. W. F. McCord, of Route 2, was a business visitor in Abbeville Wednesday. Miss Lois Jackson left Tuesday lor vunpopeiw w bvwhu , ding: of her cousin. : $? && ? Mrs. Joe Link and Miss Jane { Shanks, of Bethia, were in town ' 1 Mrs. Lysle Haddon and daughters, ; 111 of Antreville, were in town WednesJ day doing their Xmas shopping. . ', Mrs. E. 0. Bell and Miss Annie ; ,.; i Bell, of Antreville, were in town;; Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Bowie and Mrs. , R. W. Adams spent Tuesday in j Greenwood. t- ?' Mrs. Charley Armor and Miss f Maggie Brooks spent Wednesday in Greenwood.. ' - Eggs are selling in Abbeville at. seventy-five cents the dozen and are, scarce at that price. ' Sheriff Burts was a visitor at his home in the upper part of the county this week. . Misses Margaret Cothran and Tot McDill were visitors in Greenwood Thursday. I' " > . W. Frank Benton has returned to hia home in Sumter after a -visit of several d&ys with Mr. and Mrs. H. A. , Benton. v- ____ The Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Pratt will 1 , leave Monday for Washington, where i they will spend the holiday with ' Mrs. Pratt's family. * I: Mrs. Furman McGee and J. R. McGee of Due West, were visitors in Abbeville this week. ' V-lk A 1 ' ' J , r t' . Miss Winton Parks, winthrop, will arrive here Saturday to spend the week-end with Mrs. C. C. Gambrell. : i , , Mis/ Ruth Howie and Miss Edna Bradley arrived, here Wednesday ?*. from Brenau to spend the holidays ? s, with their parents. ? '. Miss Mildred Cochran came home from Lander College, Greenwood, Thursday to spend the Christmas !? holidays with her parents. . '? i Miss Howard Hill arrived yesterday from the Womans College, Due West, to spend the holidays with her mother, Mrs. H. H. Hill. I -wTT ' V\ ' ' Messrs. S. S. Boles and J. M. Huckabee, of Lowndesville, were business visitors in the city Wednesw r 7,"' Miss Helen Smith, Winthrop, is expected ;o arr.| e this week to spend the dhristmas holidays with her father, J. Allen Smith, Sr. ???? Townes Robertson ,Vicksburg, has ' r arrived in Abbeville to spend the holidays with his sisters, Misses Mae I( and Eugenia Robertson. R. G. Hagen and family have moved to town from the country into '-heir recently bought home on Magazine street. JUST We are getting in one-horse wagon, Lines, Back Ban* Chains. FOR I All of the extra Cruppers, Lines, 1 Bands, Bridles, ar We have a few j . Our prices are I TH / No. 18 North Mai] l. ? ^ Miss Althea Keaton, a student of zander College, was in Abbeville i few hours Wednesday enroute ;o her home in Antreville to spend ;he Christmas holidays. Miss Margaret Bradley and Mies Susie Stevenson, who are teaching ihis year at Donalds, have arrived in Abbeville to spend the Christmas season with homefolks. Miss Mary Smith is expected home! Saturday from Lignite, Va., where she has been teaching during the fall, and will spend the holiday season with her father, J. Allen Smith, Sr. Mr. Frank Thompson, of Troy, a former service man, having enlisted in the navy, was a visitor in Abbeville this week. Mr. Thompson recently; returned from a trip to the Orient with the United States Pacific fleet. , Mrs. Hugh Bowen spent Wednesday night in Abbeville. She took her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Bowen home with her Thursday. Elizabeth has been a pupil at the High School and has had to give up on account of her eyes. WIIVLIAMS?LANGLEY The marriaee of Miss Eva May Williams and Mr. Westley LangleyJ was solemnized at Lebanon Church Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock the Rev. J. B. Hillhouse officating. After the wedding the bride and proom left for Augusta and other points south. On returning they will make their home in McCormick where the groom lives. * \ DR. CARWILE IN CITY?HAPPY. Dr. P. B. Carwile was in the city yesterday. When we saw him he was smoking a good cigar and looking hannv. In fact, hp .tolH us that hp was happy. His people at home are all enjoying the best of health, he said, the crops are gathered, there is plenty of meat in the smoke-house and corn in the crib, the lard cans are full and the sausage is seasoned right. He is at peace with his neighbors, which is a good sign that the Maker is not complaining, so why should he not be happy? Here's a Merry Christmas to him and his'n. Getting Ready For Boll Weevil. Mr. J. W. Burriss, Jr., of Calhoun! Falls, was here Wednesday. He J closed a trade while here for thej purchase of some of the fine Flat-j woods lands of Mr. S. J. Wakefield! for whicli he paid $100.00 per acre. This price, however, does not bother a man who made 3500 pounds of seed cotton on a little less than one acre the present year. Mrs. Burriss came along with her husband and called on Santa Claus while her husband was buying land. SHOOTS WIFE AFTER BRIEF WEDDED LIFE John Hutchison shot and seriously wounded his wife Thursday morning at their home near Martins Mill. RECEIVE] a nice lot of Slip Harnej heavy two-horse Brec d, Belly Bands and 1 *UGGY HARNESS i parts, such as, Shaft [Yaces, Hames and Tugs, id Hold-back Straps. sets of Double Harness. right. Come and see. ' i? ???? ?????? ? IE STARK rt St 1 1 _ t Hutchison then fled. Jealously is given as the cause. Sheriff Burts was notified and Deputy Sheriff Cann was sent to sent to apprehend Hutchison, who was said to have gone in the direction of Lowndesville. It is said the couple had only been married only one month. MERCHANTS WILL CLOSE TWO DAYS CHRISTMAS The following merchants will close their stores on Christmas day and Friday, the day following Christmas, i Four or five merchants declined to enter into an agreement to close two days during the holiday season. The list of those that will close their stores follows: Abbeville, S. C., j Dec. 15th., 1919' We the undersigned merchants' agre to close our places of business two days, Thursday and Friday, Dec. 25th and 26th, for the Christ7 | mas Holidays: L. C. Haskell, Mrs. J. S. Cochran, K. M. mil uo., Hall Investment Co., W. E. Johnson, F. S. Hill, Kerr Furn. Co., T. H. Maxwell, Abbeville Insurance & Co., W. A. Calvert, W. T. Cason, Ramey & Gilliam, B. T. Cochran & Co., E. R. Thomson, D. Poliakoff, L. W. Kellar & Bro., Planters Bank, J. M. Anderson Co., A If TT'11 /I. /V. 111. ?1111 I/O., S. J. Link, A. M. Smith, Haddon-Wilson Co., Parker & Reese, Cason & McAllister, The Coop. Merc. Co., Amos B. Morse Co., J. S. Bowie Co. (Wholesale Grocers) C. H. Bosdell, American Woolen Mills, J. Allen Smith Jr., Moore Bros., Philson & Henry, NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. ! NOTICE is hereby given that the stockholders of The McMurray Drug Company are called to meet at the office of the said Corporation at Abbeville, in said State, at ten o'clock A. M., on December 31st, 1919, to consider a resolution that the said Corporation go into liquidation, wind up its affairs, and dissolve, as provid! ed by Section 2813 of Volume I of | the Civil Code of South Carolina, 11912. All stockholders are requested to be present at such meeting, either in person or by proxy, and vote upon said resolution. C. H. McMURRAY, President. G. A. NEUFFER, Secretary. November 29th, 1919. 12-19-3t. ' The destroyer Reid was built in the yards of Squantum, near Boston, i i the record time of 45 1-2 days. t 0 58 tor ; VEHICLI WANTS FORD OWNERS?Enjoy comforts of a closed car. We can make your touring car a Sedan for $46.00; your roadster a Coupe for $30.00. For particulars write B. & M. Motor Co., Rock Hill, S. C. 12-9-8t. STRAYED?From my home Saturday night. One dark bay mule. Reward for return of same or any information. Thos. Wilson, Box 369, Abbeville, S.C. 12-12-3t pd. % FOR RENT? Three unfurnished rooms. See Miss Julia McAllister at J. M. Anderson's store. 12-9-tf WANTED?Three or four loads of wood cut ready for the stove. E. F. Arnold. The Ford man. 12-12-3t. FOR SALE?Milburn two horse wagons, 2 1-2 Thimble Skein $115.00, 2 3-4 Thimble Skein $120.00. C. D. AULD, Elberton, Ga. 112-16-2t. 1 I WANTED?A good milk cow, fresh in milk, giving 3 or 4 gallons per day. Write or phone Mrs. Paul Link 12-16-3t. . DRAY SERVICE?For best and quick service call George Thomas, The Drayman, Phone No. 388 12-16-3t pd. A. Ellis. F. H. Leslie ELLIS-LESLIE COMPANY. I ?? I t Announces that after January 1, 1920, they will handle for your approval the Chalmers and Elcar Automobiles. Display room 12 E. Pickens S+.rppf AV?ViPvil>p S <T Watch for Advertisement WANTED:?A few hundred bundles of fodder. MRS. GRACE HEMPHILL ROGERS. 12-19-2t. iTAKEN UP:?An old dark bay mule came to my house Tuesday. Owner can get same by paying for this ad. ANDREW STONE, Abbeville, Routel. 12-19-lpd i LOST:?Shoat, white and black spotted, male, on Blue Hill. i 12-19-3tpd. CHARLIE COVIN. I j EXPERTS REBUILDING and clean| ing of Typewriters and Adding I machines: Parts and supplies for all machines. A. R. MARKS. ?Phone No. 18 112-19-1 pd. i j LAUNDRY WANTED? J. E. Clark agent for Greenwood Steam Launt -1?. WArl/ T^YH rt O* UI y WciliLO JTWUi nvift. laundry to office underHotel. Prices right?work right. ' 12-19-lpd. i COMPAI LEGIONNAIRES CALL FOR s HASTE IN CONGRESS ON r INSURANCE EXTENSION <] I Washington, Dec. 16J?Under phins of officers of the American Legion, in session here, congress f would be called upon directly to hasten legislation favorable to veterans of the world war. ' Senatots would be asked why they had not concurred in the house action on the Sweet bill to extend the benefits of the war risk insurance act. Ane delegates nave tentatively decided to urge congress to combine under one head the war risk insurance bureau,, the public health service and the federal board for vocational education, claiming that under this system state legion officers could better cooperate with the government in the interest of exservice men. The delegates also agreed to recommend a revision of the Sweet bill to create a system of forty-eight IlE I Today? The Musica '"PRETTY PRICES:?55c* 83c Seat* on Sole at Satur Douglas I "MR. F1 Al.o a SENNE il "THAT 1 IMon ALICE "The Lion am "Bill's Am Also a STAI Benefit Playg OF THE CITY PRICES:?25c, 50c, Coming 1 Thursday a January Ii "EVERY) THE BEAUTY PIC ADMISS10:?First 1 Balcony, rn :| The Best of C \M 1 j *33 4 t I w ; I . \ Abbeville, S. C. ? itate directors for the war risk bueau instead of thp fourteen regional lirectors as provided in the measure. ' ><*f 1 . A world's record in intensity of ainfall was made at Porto Bello, 'anama, when 2.48 inches of rain :ell in five minutes. * / J D. POLIAKOFF, 4* Abbeville, S. C. ==t1 < House || -Friday tl Comedy BABY" , $1.10 and $1.65 M ' Box Office Now. | day Fairbanks I EXIT" TT COMEDY I NIGHT" day JOYCE B d the Mouse' liversary" I COMEDY ground Fund r SCHOOLS. Jj and 75c. wo Days ? nd Friday, st and 2nd. V OMAN" TURE SUPREME ' Floor, 55c. 45c. ; m n> ^ j n* - S 8 IUUU I ttl'UffCJ) | ag