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Abbeville Pr< Established 1844. $2.00 the Year. Tri-Weekly Abbeville, S. C COMMENCEM IN THE 0 \ THIS MORNING-ELEVEN YOUNG PEOPLE RECEIVE DIPLOMAS FROM THE STATE AFTER FIN ISHING COURSE AT LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL?LARGE CROWD PRESENT?JUDGE BENET DE LIVERS SCHOLARLY ADDRESS The commencement exercises of She local high school were held in the city .hall today, beginning at 11 o'clock. The auditorium was beajiti fully decorated for the occasion, and early the people began- to gather to see and hear the young people who are* finishing the course here and commencing the journey of life. Promptly at,the appointed hour, the eleven graduates entered the stage. With them were Superintend ent'Fulp, Hon W C Benet, the speak er for,this year, Dr. Bristow and Rev Mr. Telford. The program as printed in our Wednesday's issue was carried out in every detail, the young people pleasing the large audience with the worth of their efforts. Miss Annie Wilson was salutatorian of the class, while Mise Mary White, as the first ffonor graduate of the class, was val edictorian. _ When the class exercises were completed Superintendent Fulp in troduced Judge Benet. He was re ceived kindly by the audience which confronted him. Saying a few per sonal words, he began in a little while his address on <(The Obligations of the Educated Men and Women of the South." His address was as scholarly as its" author. No words which we might use would adequately describe it, and we shall ask our readers to wait until a future issue when we ^ hope to give it to them to read and preserve. v / At the conclusion of the addresS^ and when beautiful bouquets of flowers had been presented to the speaker and to Mr. Fulp, the latter arose and presented diplomas to the graduates as follows: Misses Janie Vance Bowie, Vir ginia Leslie, Margaret Dawson, Wil-' lie McLane, Janie Milford, Mar/ Whit*) Carrie Hawthorne, Annie Wilson and Paul Graves, Thomas ^laxwell and Harold Tate. Major Pulp then read the Honor Roll for the year and presented the certificates of punctuality, conclud ing with the announcements, after which the Benediction was pronounc ed by Rev. Mr. Telford. ' The following is what Major Fulp had to say in his remarks: The following pupils have made an average of over 90 per cent each month during the school session and are entitled to a place on the yearly honor roll: Sara Neuffer, Albert Gil liam, Eugenia Swetenburg, Walter Hagen, Nogna Flynn, Claude Neuf fer, James Gulbertson, Florence Sprouse, Frances Wosmansky, Anne Smith, Emily Morse, Sarah Smith, Susan Minshall, Mary Norwood Per rin,.John McMurray, Margaret Flynn Alma Wilson, Rachel Minshall, Ellen Nabers, Ada Perrin, Jennie White, Virginia Wilson, Judith Hill, Deby Owen, Grace Milford, Mary Shaw Gilliam. The following pupils have been neither absent nor tardy during ?Yhe session and are awarded certificates 9 of punctuality: Sara Neuffer, Albert Gilliam, Frances Welsh, Eugenia Swetenburg, Dale Welsh, Walter Htfefl* Edwin McCuen, Margaret Culbreth,' Norma Flynn, Lounalle Sutherland, Claude Neuffer, James 1 Ouibetrtson, {Knox /CJhea(bham,, Joe Jones, Eflwm Ramey, Ovelle Gilliam, Frances Johnson, Florence Sprouse, ^Francis Wosmansky, Anne Smith, F!m?1tr Mnrsp. Tlp?t.ri<?p Win/hpc Alvin Culbreth, Margaret Maxwell, Sarah Smith, Sarah Thomson, H. N. Walk er, Charles Finley, Alex Hagen, Su ^gan Minshall, Nelle Flynn, Mary Norwood Perrin, John McMurray, Minnie Ella Swetenburg, Annie Jonea, Margaret Flynn, Alma Wilson Frances Jones, Thelma Bauknight, (Continued on Pago Four) ENT HELD >PEKA HOUSE 0 = FRENCH DEPUTIES . VOTE CONFERENCE Action iif Chamber Follows Debate Extending Over Period of Three Days. I Paris, May 26.?The chamber of deputies today indorsed the govern ment's policy on German reparation payments by the substantial majority of 419 against 171. This followed three days debate in. whicl* Premier Briand championed the government's attitude on the Sil eSian and other important foreign questions. The first part of the order of the day declaring that the London ulti matum offered the minimum indis pensable guarantees was voted* 403 to 163; the second, implying confidence in the government to impose disarm ament full payment and the imme diate application of penalties in case of invasion by Germany was adopted 390 to 162. The vote on the. order of the d.iy was as a whole was 419 to 171. BODY OF EDGAR EAKIN REACHES HOME The body of Edgar Stackhouse Ea kin, private of Co. F. 323rd Inf., ar- , Akkawillfl ott \Tovl 41VCU lit AVUOTM1V J oowiua; p 26th and was taken immediately to ( the home of Mrs. Burnett Eakin , on Washington Street The body was , one of many American soldiers which arrived in New York several .. days ago, and which were transferr- , ed to different parts of the country. < The body of private Eakin was sent ; first to Columbia, and thence here accompanied by Corp. Price Green- * way, of Atlanta, Ga., but who is now . a member of Co. I, 6th Reg. Inf. , Funeral services wire held at the residence of Mrs. Eakin today at 3 , o'clock, conducted by Rev. Mr. , Peele, of the Methodist church and this was followed by interment in long Cane cemetery. The pallbearers were members of the American Le gion: Messrs W. D. Wilkinson, G. . A. Neuffer, Otto Bristow, A. A. Morse, W. Joel Smith, and H. 0. Speed. The aged father and mother of the young soldier were here from Monroe to attend the services, as were his brothers and sisters from A. ' - * J.L. ainerent sections 01 lae suite. Private Eakin was the youngest of the sons of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Eakin life-long residents of Abbe ville, and who have but recently moved to Monroe, N. C. He went into the war early and did a soldier's duty. He died October 4th, 1918 from the effects of pneumonia con tracted on the field of battle and was buried first in France. His body now comes back to rest with his kindred of the tomb. * / DR. BISHOP TO PREACH Dr. Arthur F. Bishop will preach at the Associate Reformed Church next Sabbath. Dr. Bishop is a broth er of Mr. C. B. Bishop, who recently moved to Abbeville, and is a preach er widely known as a pulpit orator I both as pastor and evangelist. It is j with unusual pleasure that the As sociate Reformed Church presents Dr. Bishop to the people of Abbeville I on/1 iopiiao fVito ?nirif | U11U 1>}|}U^0 j lie to attend the services in the As j sociat* Reformed Church next Sab bath; SERVICES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. The service at the Baptist church Sunday morning will be especially 1 adapted to the boys and girls. While | the sermon will have them more par ticularly in view, it will be of worth an interest to adults, as well. Boys and girls up to fifteen years of age will be given the front seats in the church, as is the custom at the Bap tist church when there is a fifth Sun | day in the month. Ten Year Sentence for Manslaught er?New Trial Sought?Negro - Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter and Gets Sentence of V" ' U ' ' Three Years. Anderson, May 26.?Ernest Ash ley, found guilty of manslaughter J1 for killing Policeman . and Deputy 1 Sheriff Arthur T. Hughes at the close of a political meeting held in 1 Honea Path August 24 oi l^st year, was this afternoon sentenced to < serve ten years in the state pen iter- | tiary orr on the county chaingang. The sentence of the court was at , first 11 years, hut an appeal was . made to Judge George E. Prince^ , presiding to reduce the.sentence to i 10 years so bail could he granted , by the presiding judge, pending an appeal. After listening to F. B. Grier of Greenwood, associate coun sel for Ashley, and who had pre viously implored Judge Prince to temper justice with mercy, the pre- ^ siding judge fixed the sentence at ten years* Bond was fixed at ?10,000 bo be signed by two or more re liable sureties and approved .by the clerk of the court. Judge ranc* said: "I have listened to the appeals of ^ counsel for the defendant and have { heard them plead for mercy for this, defendant because of his wife and four children. This is one of the sad duties of a judicial officer, for every time some violator of the law is j punished, an innocent woman and some innocent children suffer. But * then I must also remember the chil- 1 dren of th9 man who was killed.' c The Ashley case has .been one of ? the hardest contested legal battles in the criminal court of Anderson in a long time. The prosecution in troduced testimonyto show th*c Po liceman Hughes had disarmed him- J self a short time before Ashley fired, . handing his gun to Chief of Police 1 Fage, who was disarmed by two of Ashley's friends. The defendant pleaded self-defense, claiming that 1 he had shot after the policeman had 1 cursed him and shoved him' back, reaching for his gun as he did so. Defense witnesses also testified < Chief Page picked Hughes' gun from i the sidewalk- and that it had not ' been given to Page by Hughes, < The defendant wa3 represented 1 by F. B. Grier, of Greenwood, T. F. J *v?wnns, u. a. ureene ana u. u. Earle of this city, and Solicitor Leon W. Harris was assisted by Proctor 1 Bonham of Greenville and (Jen. M. L. Bonhacm and Thomas Allen of 1 this city. Before the May term of the court ' of general sessions adjourned % this afternoon, Broadus-Miller, a negTo indicted for murder and held at ithe 1 county jail following a mistrial, en- 1 tered a plea of manslaughter and was sentenced to serve three years on the county chaingang. GREENVILLE FARMER , SUFFERS INJURIES i Greenville, May 26.?After volun teering to help James H. Styles, fur- 1 niture mover, in getting a truck load | of furniture out of the mud near Duncan this afternoon, W J. K. How ard, farmer of near Travelers' Rest : was probably fatally injured when 1 the truck turned over on him. How- 1 ard was passing the scene of the dia- 1 tressed truck in a wagon and seeing Styles' plight went to the rescue. ELECTED TO OLD POSITION I Mr C. D. Brown has returned from I Greenwood where he has been in ; attendance on the meetings of the Grand Lodge of the Knights otf Pyth- i ias. Mr. Brown was re-elected Grand i Keeper of Records and Seal. He has I held this position for a number of i years and has always performed the duties of the office to the satisfaction J his organization. ti \ Important Paper* and Rccordi Re lating to London Lost?Number Number ol: Person* tfll ed, Wounded and Cap tured fn Fifbtinf Dublin, May 26.?The Dublin .cus tom house is in ruins tonight and all the most important documents of the government relating to Ireland, with papers and records, th* value of vhich can no); be estimated, have been destroyed. This destructions the officials announced, is th<; work of Sirin Fein torces, which at an early hour this Eifte moon, made the most formidable itta:k against government property that has been, engineered since the present rebellion began. The employees of the various de partments housed in the building wert: made prisoners, vast quantities >f petrol were poured over the in terior of the building and the light vas- applied.. Soon military lorries ippeared and a pitched battle en med. The Sinn Feiners occuoied the cus-l x>m house and ::rom the windows net ttie soldiers with a heavy fire. Machine guns and rifles responded md a strong cordon was thrown iround the building. When the flames became too hot ;he raiders attempted to make their ;scape through the various dodrs, >ut several were shot down and kill ed and many were wounded. Accord ng to the official statement, seven :ivilians were kilted, 11 were wound >d and 111 captured. Four of the mxiliaries were wounded. Crown forces m a sortie entered ;he building and made many cap ;ures. Some of the raiders were laturated with petrol and it is be ieved that several met their death n the raging flames. London, May 26?The Irish office ;onight issued the following official report on the custom house fire at Dublin: "Three tendere carrying auxiliary ;aclets and accompanied by an ar mored car, approached the Dublin :ustom house. shortly after 10 j'clock this morning. As they ap proached the building a number of bombs were thrown at the leaders from the railway bridge, while re volver fire was opened on them from the windows'of the custom house, which was occupied by a large force of Sinn Feiners. "The cadets dismounted under heavy fire and surrounded the cus. bom house which = was seen to be burning. Fire from the auxiliaries and the machine f.Tin of the armored car was poured into . windows of the custom house from wflich the rebels replied vigorously and a se ries of desperate conflicts followed between .crown forces and seven or eight parties of rebels, who rushed from different doors of the building making dashes for liberty and firing as they ran. The first party to emerge consisted of three men, only one of whom escaped,, the rest be ing killed or wounded. "Some of the auxiliaries then stormed the blazing building, where many of the .rebels surrendered. Some of them were found to be sat urated with petrol and several were probably!burned to death before the crown forces entered. "The firemen were held up at the first station by ret els so that the fire sngines did not arrive until 2 o'clock t>y which time the fire had taken hold if the entire building. "At the conclusion of the fight, iead and wounded rebels lay about in all sides of the building, where ;he ground was strewn with broken ?lass and empty cartridge cases. ruur auAiiianca ncit nwunuv-. seven civilians wure killed, eleven mounded and about 111 captured." i STAPLE CROP HURT B] Q COURT SITUATION GROWING SERIOUS Attorney General Seeks Plan To Rulieve Dockets of Many Liquor -Cases. Washington, May 26.?Attorntey General Daugherty plans to appoint a committee of legal experts to draft recommendations to congress'"- for legislation to relieve the congestion of liquor catees now crowding the dockets of federal cctarts throughout the country. Mr. Daugherty said today he would invite three district judges, two dis trict attorneys and William A Blount of Pensacola, Fla. to form the com mittee, Vith Judge John E. Sater of Columbus, Ohio, as chairman. The situation in the courts, he said was very serious. *. The department has already con sidered appointment of extra judges, or special commissioners, or using judges available^at present to travel .through the congested districts, in an effort to cl^an up the court dockets, but has taken no action as yet. REAL ESTATE AGAIN Those people who have been think, ing that the real estate market is dead, and as Mr. Cohen would aay, a piece of crepe hung on its noser, are mistaken. Real estate is a live asset, and the real estate business is something from start to finish al ways. Sometimes it is in a quiescent state and then again it breaks out like the measles, or the mumps. All olf this is said on account of the fact that the Taft Realty Com pany, of Anderson, is about to put on a big real estate sale in this coun. ty._ Messrs G. E. Taft and E. F. Gei ger, of this company, were' in Abbe ville Tuesday and told us so. They will sell some time during the sum mer the John L. Tate place, known as the Hunter place. The place^will be subdivided and sold in separate parcels. These lands will be advertised in the Press and Banner shortly. If the readers of Jthis pap^r ever expect to buy real estate, they should take no tice of the advertisement, because the ship is scraping bottom now and real estate will be cheaper this summer than it will be for many summers to come. ! METHODISTS GETTING READY FOR CAMPAIGN The canvassers for the Christian t Education Movement for the local Methodist church met in the office of: Mr. W. L. Peebles, director and; made their plans. The meeting was| held Thursday, p. m at 8 o'clock. It; was decided.to make detailed an-| nouncements at the Sunday morning ( service. Sunday afternoon the can-j vass will- be made. The outlook is i very hopeful. Announcement will bej made at the Sunday evening service, concerning the progress of the work. J OLD PUPILS GATHER . Many of the old pupils who at tended Cokesbury School taught by Judge Benet soon after he came to this state from Scotland -have called j on him since he came here Wednes-, day. Among those who came from a distance and whose visits to him J were appreciated are Hon. NVG.' Evans, of Edgefield, and Col/- Geo. C. Hodges, of Greenwood. Both teacher and pupils have greaifly en joyed the meeting. OVER FROM GREENWOOD Mrs. John R. Blake came over from Greenwood today and was present at me ciusmg caoh,?h ui the High school. Mrs. Blake was in terested in the honors which Miss Mary White carried off and was the eniest at dinner of Mrs. White. 'S OF SOUTH / "DUMPING" TARIFF ASSOCIATION ASKS FOR*" PROTECTION FOR COTTON AND PEANUTS AGAINST ORI ENTAL ^L.?PETITION SIGN ED BY 170 CONGRESSMEN? CHAIRMAN FORDNEY INDORS ES REQUEST AND OFFERS AID Washington, May 26.?Southern industries Thursday appealed to Con- . gre.ss~ for protection against Oriental J-7 . . * dumping and from cheap competition ip other quarters. flvirn? "ttlB <>ntfnn on/J nanitiU ?...D * *? vwvvu nam j/caiiuv i-aims of the "South suffered a loss of $250 -'* 000,000 last year due to the dumping of Oriental oils upon the markets of *' the United States," the Southern Tar iff Association petitioned Congress Tor a tariff cn vegetable oils and hides to be included in the permanent tjir-'^ iff. 1 " J. B. Pinner of Norfolk, Va., ac companied by a large number of Southern and Western congressmen, represented the association and pre sented the petition to^hairman Ford-. ney of the House Ways and Means Committee. The request was signed by 170 Southern and Western-con gressmen. ' " Chairman Fordney at the concLa sion of the meeting indorsed the re quest and promised that he would - "treat all the States in the union alike giving them the protection they need." Mica A lirtn ? '' ??? ""vs ikvucrwuu, represent ing Oklahoma, appealed for the tariff "on behalf of the women and chil dren" of the outh. The first votes of these Southern women sent me here." she said, "aid :f you don't do something for thea} I guess I'll go back and stay with H }i them myself." " I presenting the appeal, Pinner said: . "For the first time in the history of the nation the Southern fanner and miner is put on a party with the manufacturer. ' Deploring the "tendency of some Southern congressmen to line uo with that class of manufacturer who want to buy raw products of the South in . a free market and sell back the man ufactured article in a protected mar-'' ket," Pinner said such a combina tion is "ruinous to the progress of the South." v * Senators Talk Farm Problems | 4 Wash'ngton, May 26.?Agricul tural problems confronting the coun- x i try's farmers were discussed at a conference late Thursday of 22 sen iors, both Republican and Demo cratic. from so-called Western and < . ' v'S Southern agricultural States. The formation of an agricultural senatorial club recently by fifteen senators, irrespective of party and sectional lines has resulted in the addition of seven to their number? Senators Johnson and Stanfield of California. Soencer of Missouri. Nor beck of South Dakota, Republicans, and arris of Georgia, Harrison of Mississippi and Caraway of Arkan- \ ses, Democrats. Revisi9n of the Federal Reserve and the railroad transportation acta was discussed. Iteis the purpose of the group of senators to act as a unit on all leg islation affecting the country's agri cultural interests. f J ATTEMPT IS MADE ? * TO WRECK S. A. L. 1 . 5- ' JS3 Florence, S. C., May 26.?Officials today are investigating what ia J)?- 'o lieved to 'be the work of train wreck ers in the week of the Seaboard Airline passenger train, No 23 near here last night, in which two train men were seriously Injured. White paper has been pasted over the sig nal board, showing a clear track, ac cording to Engineer Ivey Harmons, who suffered a broken shoulder when his train ran through an open switch into* a short siding. His fire man, Joe Jenkins, was injured inter nally. i