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Mr. Jim Sherard was in town from "the Falls". Monday. Mrs. S. 0. Botts, of the Central section, was shopping in town Sat urday. Miss Blanche Smith, of Anderson, is in the city visiting her cotfsin, Miss Eva Reames. Mr. A. 0. Lominick,of Newberry, spent the week-end in Abbeville with friends. Mr. George McCanty was in town from McCormick Sunday spending the day with friends. Mrs. John Maxwell came over from Greenwood and spent Sunday with Miss Daisy Maxwell. Mrs. Ernest Cheatham was in the city from *Antreville Saturday on business. Mr. J. J. Grant, one of the sub-! stantial farmers of the county was in town Monday. Miss Lydia Owen, who was quite sick at Winthrop last week, ?r get ting better and is out again. Mr. and Mrs. Roddy Ellis, of Due West, spent Sunday in Abbeville with Mr. and Mrs. Langdon Wilson. Miss Sarah Wilson, of Sharon, has been in the city for the fcast several days visiting Mrs. I^angdon wuson. iFraser McDill came up from Greenwood Saturday and spent over Sunday with his home people. Mrs. B. S. Reames went over to Greenwood Monday and .spent the day looking around the stores. Miss Lillian Dodson was down from Donalds Monday looking at the pretty things in our stores. Mrs. A. I. Shelor came up from Ninety-Six Saturday and spent the day with her friend, Mrs. B. S. Reames. X Mr. Joe Wilson went down to Co lumbia last week and spent several days with his daughter, Mrs. Whit ner. There were no services in the As sociate Refoa-med Church Sabbath, the recent rains having flooded the furnace room. Mrs. W. P. Edwards and Miss Elizabeth Grant were in the city Saturday from Calhoun. Falls shop ping. Mr. Sam Eakin, who has been the victim of a genuine case of small pox, is getting better and was sit ting up Monday. Mr. John Kerr was in town Mon day from the Cedar Springs section. He hitched up his trusty mule and came by the old time route. Mr. Robert Edmunds, of Parks t ville and his son, Newton Edmunds, are in the city visiting at the home of Mr. Joe F. Edmunds, on Parker Street. v Miss Aliene Shane is here from Columbia to visit her friend, Mrs. Johir Harris, Jr., and to be present at the marriage of Miss Mary Law son Link on Thursday. y _ Mr. and Mrs. James C. Fair are in the city from Greenville spending a while Mr. L. C. Haskell. They are 1 enjoying all the festivities, incident to the Link?Townsend wedding. Mrs. P. B. Speed went to Green ville Saturday where she will spend some time with her lively grand children while their parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Marchant are in New York. Mp. C. F. Gilliam and Miss Helen Herbert were in from Watts Satur day trading in our different stores. Miss Mary Lou Bowie, who is liv | ing in Greenville now, came home and spent Sunday this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bowie. Miss Howard Hill went to Due West this week-end and joined her friend, Miss Addie Rogers of the Woman's College, and both spent several days near Anderson visiting Miss Rogers' parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jodie Uldrick and Miss Ephegenia Uldrick, of the T. Al.l.l i.; A1.U rseinienem sec nun were m nuue ville this week being the over Sun day visitors of Mrs. Fannie Milford and Miss Corrie Killingsworth. Even the great are not proof against the doctors. "Chick" Gallo way, who is the admiration of all the boys in town, has had to^ under go a tonsil operation which has left him none the worse off. Claude Wilkinson, who has been empoyeld in the Cotton Exchange office has given up his position and will go to Greenwood where he has a position. Mrs. Wilkinson will go with him and they will make their home there. Mrs. Joe Wharton, Mrs. Charlie Wharton, Mrs. E. D. Andrews, Mrs. Howard Ellis, Mrs. Alice Duckett, W A Williomc A r+.Vmr Klugh, Mrs. H. K. Thayer and Miss Pola Zeigler were among those who attended the Greenwood-Abbeville basket ball game in Abbeville Fri day.?Index-Journal. IN HONOR OF MRS. FAIR Miss Kate Haskell is entertaining this afternoon at her home on Greenville street in honor of her / sister, Mrs. James Fair, who is here from Greenville for a short visit. The young matrons of the cit^ are invited for this pleasant affair and a lively card game Is being enjoyed. ' A STAG SUPPER Misses Mamie and Jessie Hill gave a uciiguiti. ui ouppci tu hicji gentlemen friends at their home last Friday night. The guests were all relatives except three.. The guests were Messrs. Albert 'Henry, W. A, Calvert, Dr. Neuffer, W. D. Wilson, W. E. Johnson, Dj\ J. C. Hill, W. E Leslie, IX H. Hill, W. E. Leslie, Jr., W. A. Stevenson and Jimmie Hill. A delightful course supper was served after which the men enjoyed set back until a lat^-hour. r- / MRS. CASON'S CARD PARTY \ Mrs. Fred Cason entertained twenty of her lady friends Saturday afternoon at a card party at hei home on North Main street. Th? ladies gathered at four o'clock and engaged in the games until lat^ ir the afternoon. Mrs. Cason's principal decorations | were baskets of trailing ferns, tied | with red ribbons, the green ferns I Vinintr intorwnvon trfvi'n/?e *\4 *1*VVVU VT TTlVlt OliillgO UJ red hearts of graduated' sizes. Vases of spring flowers were also used. After the games salad, aspic, char lotte and cake and coffee were served. A BIRTHDAY PARTY Elizabeth, the lively little daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Hipp, celebrated Jper seventy birthday Saturday afternoon by inviting about thirty of her little friends to ' a party. The Hipp hom? was decora ted with red valentine hearts, red lamp shades and red candles on the birthday cake being useck Ked jelly with whipped .cream and fancy cakes were served as refreshments and each little guest was given a red souvenir bag of candy tied with rib bon, the end of each bow being a valentine heart. There were many lively games played in the yard, the little hostess being assisted in entertaining by her aunt, Mrs. James : Shelly. All the o f J A firvi a little iumo uau a imc nine. AT BRENAU Miss Ruth Howie went over to Brenau College last week to be pre ! sent at a Student Volunteer meeting and to spend sometime among her ' old schoolmates and friends. I ? MRS. LANE ENTERTAINS One of the most enjoyable parties given last week was that at which Mrs. Mamie Lane entertained a few friends at cards Saturday morning at the Eureka Hotel. Mrs. Lane has 'been here from Virginia spending the winter in Abbeville and she has 1 charmed our people. Saturday morn- . ing she entertained Mrs. Percy Mil- ( ler, Mrs. J. D. Kerr, Mrs. F. E. Har rison, Mrs. T. G. White, Mrs. Wyatt j Aiken, Mrs. Austin, Mrs. W." P. ] .Greene, Mrs. W. W. Bradley, Mrs. , S. A. Allen and Mrs. H. B. I^ickson. The morning was spent in playing cards and in partaking of the de- j lightful salads, sweets, almonds and , coffee served. The parlors were fragrant with l many vases of spring flowers, the ( j score caras empnasizea xne coming ^ 1 of spring. At the conclusion of ^ , the games Mrs. Miller, as the visit- ( ing "lady, was presented with a ^ shower boutonairre et violets. I 1 BIRTH NOTICE. , , | Born at Fort Lawn, Thursday, j | February 10, 1921 to Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Gilliard, a son. Born, near Abbeville, February 13, 1921, to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Henry King, a son. PLAYING THE ORGAN Miss Mary Quarles Link played ! the organ for the Baptist congrega tion Sunday morning and evening in the absence of Miss Ruth Howie. MARION GAMBRELL HOME Marion Gambrell arrived in Ab beviiie Sunday ana is spenamg sometime with his grandparents, Mr. ! and Mrs. John M. Gambrell. Marion , has seen the world since leaving us a year ago. For a while he was in the Northwest, learning how they harvest wheat after which he went ! to the Pacific coast and enlisted in the- navy. He served his time out and was discharged recently. He is looking well and his friends are I glad to have him home again. I LOSING BIG MONEY \ .1 j Charlie Janides, one of the kais [ j ers of the Greek restaurant business-* j I in Abbeville is a sad man these days. He feels that he is ahead of the man who is losing: money on cotton and that the man who is heM rp. and robbed is not in it with him. Thursday night he "took his stand' in front of his shop to watch the people go by to 'My Golden Girl," which afforded some smart, hungry man a golden opportunity to slip in the back of the restaurant and carry off a fine piece of roast beef and a boiled pork ham. This is losing big money. . ' REFINED SUGAR PRICE IS GIVEN A BOOST New York, Feb. 12.?The first ad vance in the price of refined sugar since the slump was' .noted ? Friday when the Federal Sugar Refining Company announced a boost from 6.85 cents to 7 cents a pound. The I 1 cm /~i i lvauunai ou^ar iveiining company | and Arbuckle Brothers announced they had withdrawn from the mar ket. CHICAGO SOLDIER BRINGS HOME BRIDE - FROM RHINE Chicago, Feb. 11.?The first Ger man war bride of a Chicago soldier with the American army of oc^pa . tion was at home here today/ with her husband, Lieut. James Smith, of 'the marine corps. While regulations fawned on fraternizing with tho | enemy on the Rhine, Smith met and ; became engaged to Miss Erna Ferst j mayor there. 'After two years, she I obtained permission to join him, a* i riving last Monday in New York I where they were married. I __ ' 50-CENT CUT IS MADE IN CRUDE OIL PRICES Pittsbug, Pa., Feb. 12.?The Jo seph Seep Agency here, Standard Oil purchasers, Friday announced a | 50-cent cut in the price of the five best grades of crude oil. The new ! prices follow: j Pennsylvania, $4.25; Cabell, $2. ,96; Somerset heavy, $2;25; Somer set light, $2.50; Ragaland, $1.15. RED CROSS WORK x STARTED AGAIN Mrs. M. T. Coleman to Have Charge of Home Service at Craven Hall In Columbia. The home service department of the local Red Cross chapter has been reorganized and will reopen offices in Columbia. Mrs. M. T. Coleman of Abbeville, for'some time prominent in women's work in the state, has been secured to take^ charge of this work.' * The headquarters have been mov ed from the university, the forrher headquarters, to Craven hall and will occupy the first office to the left of the entrance of that hall. The work of the chapter will not carry out a regular peace time proi ?ram but will be mainly for the pur pose of information and to care for disabled soldiers. Knitters are ashed to volunteer to knit up the wool th^t is still on the hands of the chapter for the purpose ofv sending garments to the sticken children of Europe. YThe office tele phone number is 4111. Mrs. Coleman is Well known in Co lumbia and throughout the state, | having been at one time president of the state suffrage league and at an other time president of the State Federation of Women"s Clubs. She has had training in this line of worl^ and will be an efficient and capable worker.?The State. Parties are coming so thick and( fast that they are getting out of the ordinary, an informal one was. given Sunday night and two 'charming old maids entertained their gentlemen firends at a set. back supper Friday night. BOND SALE OF FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ($450,-^ 000.00) DOLLARS HIGHWAY j IMPROVEMENT BONDS OF AB-j BEVILLE COUNTY. The Highway Commission of Ab beville County, South Carolina, will receive sealed bids at the office of the Highway Commission, in said City of Abbeville," up to noon of the 28th day of February, 1921 for the sale of Four Hundred and Fifty Thous and ($450,000.00; Dollars of High way Improvement Bonds. These are coupon bonds of One Thousand Dollars denomination, ma turing serially, that is, Fifteen Thou sand ($15,000.00) Dollars shall ma ture on the first of January 1922, and Fifteen Thousand ($15,000.00) Dollars additional on January Jst, each year thereafter until 1951 in clusive. bearing- interest from .Tanu ary 1st, 1921, (the date of issue) at six per cent. (6%) per annum pay able semi-annually, January 1st, and July 1st; principal and interest pay able at Guaranty Trust Company of New York, New York. Each bidder will be required be fore his bid will be considered to deposit with L. W. Keller, Secretary \VVV<VVV v#v * * vv % I S OPERA HOUSE ?. PROGRAM. TUESDAY GLADYS WALTON IN RICH GIRL, POOR GIRL" ALSO LAST CHAPTER OF v "THE DRAGON'S NET" 10c 20c WEDNESDAY7 BEBE DANIELS "DUCKS AND DRAKES" ^ also V INTeRNATION NEWS REEL V 10c. 20c. V , M' THURSDAY v dorothy gish V in * \ "LITTLE MISS REBELLION" vj also V! INTERNATIONAL NEWS v| 10c. 20c. * I irp in a v cupriAi MARION DAVIES IN "THE RESTLESS SEX" ALSO A CENTURY COMEDY "TAILS WIN" 15c 35c vvvvvvvvv of the Highway Commission a check payable to his order, for two per cent, of the bid and duly certified by 3ome bank satisfactory to the said Highway Commission. The Highway Commission reserves the right to re ject any and all bids. In case a bid is rejected, such check will be returned to the bidder, but if the bid is ac cepted, the amount of said check .vill be held by the Highway Com mission for the due performance of the bid within ten days after the bonda are ready for delivery, and if the bidder fails to comply within the time above stated, the Highway Com nrssion reserves the right to offer said bonds for re-sale at the risks of the bidder or bidders. The County 'has a population of about Thirty Thousand. The estimat ed actual value of property of the <w>ouniy is $zd,uuu,uuu. i V For more detailed statement of the resources of the County -and au thority for the issue apply to the undersigned. v ... J. S. STARK, Chairman, /L. W. KELLER, .Secretary, Highway Com. of Abbeville Col, S. C. Feb .12, 1921. 2tw until 28th. Our Loi are based strictl Thirtj Any cuts of Steak, per lb r> 1 iu ueei nutisi, per lu. .... . ' Stew Beef, per lb Pork Chops and Pork Roe Pork Steak, per lb. ... Pork Sausage, per lb. . . Mixecf Sausage, per lb. Cured Ham, per lb Boiled Ham, per lb. ... Sliced Bacon Strips, per 1 _ Boxed Breakfast Bacon .We have reduced the pric a very low margin of profit; to ly necessary that our accounts However, we are willing to all must have a remittance by th purchase. All accounts not in be charged at the old prices o prices qtioted above. BosdelPi Call Phone 102 for Anything Taste For. F Opera Hous Paramoi / mi n IheKes \ i by Robert W. 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' 50c. b 70c. 65c. 70c. \ es on our meats and produce to protect ourselves it is absolute be in by the first of each month, ow a margin of a few days, but ! 10th of the month following by the tenth of the month will r 20 per cent higher than the s Market . in the Meat Line you Have A 'rompt Delivery. , ? i e Friday Only mt Special itless Sex Chambers, with Davies The brilliant drama of a Ifirl who made excitement her god< A whirlwind ro mance that links* millionair es' ballrooms with poor ar tists' garrets. Adapted from the most talked about novel of the day. 1 J -THE SOCIETY PICTURE OF THE SEASON. ^arlyle Blackwell talph Kellard :ly?"Tails Win" j