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A BATTLE DOTAL WAS BALL SAME Many Brilliant Features?Inter ested Spectators. - - CANDIDATES' NINE WAS SUCCESSFUL Some Brilliant l miorius \>ere 011 Display?Final Score 11 to lO. What boots it if Ty Cobb has pone on strike ? What matters it if the whole De troit team should forever refuse to again appear 011 the diamond ? If Manager Jen tlillcrt: nnlV IciH'W it. ho pouhl soon fill UD his ranks from the talent which is so plen tiful but is being so sadly neglected in these parts. All of which may be very startling when first related, but is merely by way of an nouncing that a game of baseball was per petrated last Wednesday on the Abbeville diamond by and between a nine composed mainly of candidates for office and one re cruited from the ranks of Miss Maggie Brooks' boarders. The Boarders put forth a gallant effort to secure an overwhelming victory, and had it not been for timely reinforcements they would no doubt have been successful. When the smoke of battle had cleared and the wounded had been removed from the scene of carnage it was found that the candidates, by a score of 11 to 10, had turn ed a seeming defeat into an assured vic tory. Judge it. niu, m a iair ana impartial manner, from a vantage point in the con ning tower, overlooked the decks and saw to it that the rules of civilized warfare were enforced to the letter. There were no ap peals from his enlightened decisions. The most striking feature of the game was the delicately ornate costume in which the Hon. J. F. Bradley appeared. His un iform was a masterpiece of sartorial art, and was the creation of a famous Paris tailor, who produced it for the occasion with th? aid of a circular saw and express ed it to this country in two ships. The piece de resistance ef this unique de sign was a brilliant-colored Tan O'Shanta. Mr. Bradley's hosiery was designed espec ially to prevent an attack of cold feet, but failed utterly ir their mission. Early in the battle this valiant leader was retired, mortally wounded, but only after render ing gallant and effective service. Another feature worthy of note was the Illiuuir iiiuuiici in wmuu iiir nun. .lviiuuiu Sondley managed to elude the deadly shots hurled at his station by the fearless ene my. He also was severely wounded in the knee in an effort to stop a missile from the enemy's gun. His work would no doubt have been more effective had he been pro vided with a net, a hamper basket or some such aid. Mr. Gibert showed sprinting abilities that may stand him in goodjstead in his race for the legislature. Mr. Long rendered very efficient service as gunner, many of his shots taking dead ly effect on the enemy's starboard quarter. Many others 011 both sides distinguished themselves, but space forbids mention of them all. The game was quite interesting through out and greatly enjoyed by those present. The proceeds were for the benefit of the Daughters of the Confederacy. I Of Inter W * * s T i WI1U V AVINGS that are really You can do the same if But Not the Quality, and su Our ambition is to sell t is to give our customers the 1 Every one who buys hei S' 8 I I I Shoe $3.50 [t will pay you P( COMMENCEMENT AT DUE WEST COLLEGES. Interesting Programme Prepar ed tor Exercises?The Speakers An event of more than passing interest will be the commencement exercises of Due West Woman's College and Erskine Colleges, which will be held beginning Sat urday, June 1, with the closing exercises of the Theological Seminary, and ending Wednesday night with the concert by the pupils of the Woman's College. Among the features will be the annual oration by Hon.W.F. Stevenson of Cheraw. Mr. Stevenson is a pleasing speaker and his hearers will no doubt be well rewarded for any time they may 6pend in listening to his address. The complete programme of the com mencement exercises follows: Saturday evening, June 1, closing exer cises in the Theological Seminary. Sabbath, J u ue 2, Baccalaurate sermon be fore the firraduatimr classes by Rev. Dr. A. F. Carr, Mobile, Ala. Monday morning, class day exercises In Erskine. Monday afternoon, Art Exhibit at Wo man's College. Monday night, society celebration and society debate?Euphemian and Philoma thean societies. Diplomas delivered by Mr. Grover McCormick, Memphis, Tenn. Tuesday morning, June 4, Commence ment in Erskine. Annual oration by Hon. W. F.Stevenson, Cheraw, S. C. Tuesday evening, class day exercises in the Woman's College. Tuesday night, meeting of Alumni of Erskine. , Wednesday, June 5, commencement in Woman's College. Annual address by Prof. Joseph McConnell, Davidson College, N. C. Wednesday night, concert by pupils Wo man's College. LAY CORNERSTONE McCORMICK SCHOOL. Interesting Exercises Will Be Held June 30th?The Speakers. On Thursday, June 30tli, the cornerstone of the McCormick High School will be laid with impressive ceremonies. The cornerstone will be laid by the Ma sonic fraternity, and the ceremony will be under the direction of Hon. Geo. S. Mower of Newberry, Most Worshipful Grand Mas ter of Masons for South Carolina. The McCormick school building when completed will be a handsome brick struc ture and will cost $10,000. The principal address for the occasion will be delivered by Prof. W. H. Hand, of the University of South Carolina. Among other speakers will be Hon. C. C. Feather stone of Greenwood. Dinner will be served on the grounds and a pleasant time is anticipated. If you will inspect the houses around town painted with Devoe paint you will have no trouble deciding what you will put on yours. It's the kind that lasts and looks well. For sale at Sjteed's. est to Ev< 'alue his 1 worth while are constantly being you join the crowd and go to the pply your Clothing, Furnishings ar he best goods possible at the lowes biggest value possible to produce, re once becomes a satisfied custom CL01 With style seldom equale price, with quality that wii don't it wear out so I can g in your hands through a st glad you came. s for the Fi ,.00 ^11 and $4.00 \j well to investigate 3LIAK STATE COKFERENCU OF EP WORTH LUAGtM Meeting to Be Held in Spartan burg-, June 13-16?Nota ble Addresses. Spartanburg, May 28.?Spartanburg wel comee the annual conference of the Soutl Carolina Epworth League, which is to b< held at Bethel Methodist church. All lea truAra and friends are looking forward witl much pleasure to the great benefits tha will be derived from this meeting. Ther* will be present several noted speakers among whom will be Rev. C. G.'Hounshell one of the most noted foreign ml*siona ries, who is home on a furlpugh. Bishoj John C. Kilgo will preach the annual ser mon. Dr. H. M. DuBose, of Augusta, Ga. needs no introduction to South Carolini leaguers. He is one of their favorites ant his coming will be a great attraction t< those who have heard him before. Rev. J. Marvin Culbreth, Assistant Gene ral Secretary of the Epworth League Nashville, Tenn., will be a drawing feature Miss Bessie Houser, missionary to China will have charge of the methods of mis sionary work. Spartanburg feels congratulated upor securing this conference, and will do hei uttermost to entertain the delegates frorr all over South Carolina in a royally hospl table manner. INFORMATION WANTED AS TO FORMER CITIZEN. The following clipping from the Charles ton correspondence of The State will be o! interest here, jthe former home of Col Burt. Doubtless some of our older citi zens could furnish the data needed: "The Charleston postoffice has received a request for information about one Arm istead Burt, a native South Carolinian, who served several terms'in congress as a [ Calhoun Democrat. In preparing for ,a new edition of the biographical congres sional directory it is desired to incorpo rate the date |of birth, the middle name and other ^information about Mr. Burt's public career which the department has not in hand and wants to receive. Any Information which may be submitted to Postmaster Harris may be forwarded to Washington." TO MANAGE THE ELBERTON CHAUTAUQUA. Rev. Louis Bristow to Have tllUr^O Vt VCiCvmvivu ... Georgia City. Rev. Louis Bristow has gone to Elber ton, Ga., where he will assume the man agement of the Chautauqua, to be held in that city May 28-June 3. Mr. Bristow has performed like service at Newberry and Willlamston and is well qualified for this responsible post. He will be absent |from his charge next Sunday, but the usual ser vices will be held, the Rev. V. I. Masters, of ^Atlanta, secretary of home missions, preaching morning and evening. For nice cigars and chewing tobacco go to Speed's Drug Store. ery Han Dollar effected by our customers. si ore mat ums me trice id Shoe needs. >t prices possible. Our aim er of this store. fHES d for less than double the II make you wonder "Why jet a new one. And placed ore service that makes you a mily That you will enjoy wear ing because they fit. They are stylish and they are the best values we can comprehend at the prices s s before you buy :off. Farmers' Union Bureau. < To the Officers and Members of the Far1 mere' Union Eureau : One of the evils menacing America today,' and least understood in its seriousness, is | that of indiscriminate immigration. As it 1 is, the country is full enough of indifferent 3 citizens. Yet through Ellis Island, and other entry ports, we continue each year 1 to pile up an accumulation of diverse nationalities that never can or will be as 3 slmllated by our people. To restrict the ? laws, and construct sensible barriers Is the ? task to which welshould address ourselves, and no class is more directly interested In J it than the farmer. I have no sympathy with the old "Know ' nothing" contingent in America, which 1 used to pride itself on the slogan. "America for Americans only," and excuse ignorance > of sloth on the flimsy pretext of patriotism. Neither would I put an inflexible embargo " upon entrance into this country. Ever since we set up in business as a republic, America has been an asylum for the op pressed of all lands. They have looked toward the Statue of Liberty as symboliz ing all that is good and fiopeful and invit 1 ing to those who failed, from some cause, r to secure a "Square deal" in their own 1 countries. But I do recognize that we have a do finite duty to perform not only to the pres ent generation, but equally to those who are to follow us. If we allow ignorant, unfit, diseased immigrants, or those with no respect for our institutions and with inability to assimilate our Ideals?to come in without let or challenge and to occupy f the land like a swarm of locusts, we shall . be working poorly for the Americans of tomorrow. America has been called the melting-pot I of the world, in that it receives into its capacious spaces hordes from almost every . nation, melting them into a common sud k stance and turning them out Americans. But industrial troubles?cropping out on the farms as well as in the great labor centers?warn us that there Is such a thing as overcrowding the melting pot, such a thing as throwing into it ingredients that i will not mix with the best and most endur ing elements of American citizenship. 1 The farmers, by keeping in touch de 1 terminedly with their congressmen, can avapf n KnnaflAlol annn lr> nmH n a! r* r? caoi u u wcaouv/ioi iuiiuuuv/c aaa }/iv;uuviu^ the right kind of immigration. We do not wish to be harsh, bigoted or intolerant. But we are under no obligations to accept the refuse of other nations and the first instinct with repulics, as with individuals, is that of self-preservation. Charles S. Barrett. San Francisco, Cal., May 22nd, 1912. PERSONALS. Mr. 0. R. Horton, of Abbeville couuty, South Carolina, who has been teaching in Georgia for the past eight years, has been elected president of the Georgia Military Academy at Milledgeville, Ga. Mr. Hor i ton is a graduate of Furman University and has been most successful in his adopt ed State. The new position which he oc cupies is one of the most important in the educational system of Georgia.?Southern School News. Hon. Wyatt Aiken has returned to Wash ington, after spending a few days with his family in Abbeville. , At the municipal election held in Edge field last Friday Dr. J. G. Edwards, a for mer citizen of Abbeville, was elected mayor of that place. Dr. Edwards has many : friends here who will be glad to learn of his success. Among visitors to the city last Friday , were Messrs. F. C. Robinson, Joel Sanders, . Thomas Brice and J. W. Deason, of Mc Cormick. Mr. J. K. Miller, of Abbeville, made a visit to Elberton last Saturday. He says he misses Elberton very much, but most - of all he misses the Presbyterian Sunday - school.?Elberton Star. Mr. Paul Kennedy, studentat the S. C. C. I., is home for the summlr. Born on Sunday morning, May 26,1912, to Mrs. W. T. McOord, a daughter. If it's a beauty that you are looking for, see Mabry Cheatham's baby. Mrs. Harris, who has been on a visit to her daughters, Mrs. R. 8. Link and Mrs. Lawrence Parker, has returned to her home in Cortland, Ala. Mrs. L. M. Fouche, of Columbia, has been on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. J. F. Bradley. She returned nome on Satur day. Miss Marie Duke, of Columbia, and Miss Rosa Winkler, two of the teachers in the graded school, have returned to their re- c spective homes. These young ladies have made many friends during their stay in Abbeville, who will welcome their return 1 at the reopening of the school year. Mrs. W. G. Chapman returned Sunday from Atlanta, where she has been in atten- . dance upon her husoand, who recently un derwent an operation in that city, and is greatly improved. Mr. FredH. Griffin, of Columbia, a pop ular engineer on the Southern, paid a visit to his sister. Mrs. T. Lawton Robert eon,last week. Mrs. W. P. Whlam is visiting her mother, Mrs. 0. C. Fleming, In Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Breazeale, of Ander son, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. T. Lawton Robertson. Mr. S. W. Watt, who lives near Due West, was in town Monday. MISS GRAYDON WINS MEDAL FOR ORATORY ; Monday evening, May 30,at the College, for Women, Columbia, Miss Esther Graydon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Gray don, of Abbeville, won the gold medal awarded for oratory. Coming In her freshman year and being won against , competitors Jtaking elocution, the honor to Miss Graydon Is quite signal, and her many lrlends at home are delighted at her 1 success. i Mrs. Rose A. Freeman,Clifford, Vs., j says they have long U' ed Foley's Rem edies and want to say a good word for 1 i them. She writes: "Foley Kidney ] Pills cured my husband of a long ' standing kidney trouble, after be had I taken other medicines without relief. We would not be without Foley & ' Pn 'h mpriip.inpR in nnr hnnwp for manv % I times their coBt." McMurray Drug ,Ca That pain in the head and back of neck ' oiien comes irom smoiung moan cigars. Moral, smoke Speed's Cincos. Estate of Matthew Ores we 11, NoMce of Settlement and Application for Final Discharge. Take notice that on tbe 25th day of June 1912, we will render a final account of our ac counts and doings as Administrators of tbe Estate of Matthew Creswell, deceased, In tbe office of Judge of Probate for AbbevllleCoun ty at 10 o'clock a. m., and on tbe same day will apply for a final discharge from our trust as aucn Administrators. All persons having demands against said estate will present them for payment on or before that day, proven and authenticated or b? forever barred. J. M. CUDDY, J. S. CRESWELiL, Administrators. r_r_ We are Sol Mrs. Jane H< Boys' The best Fitttn (Boys' Clot Suitsfrom$ Top off Your Ou Regal 1 and make y< $3-50 a I TheL. Master's Sale, rhe State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE. Court of Common Pleas. r. Foster Barnwell against W. D. Barksdale. ' By authority of a Decree of Sale by ;he Court of Common Fleas Mr Abbe ville County, in said State, made in the ibove stated case, I will offer for sale, it Public Outcry, at Abbeville C. H., 5. C., on Saflesday in June, A. D. 1912, within the legal hours of eale the ollowiDg described land, to wit: All bat tract or parcei of land, situate, ly ng and beiDg in the City of Abbe Mile, Abbeville County, in the State tforesaid, containing One and Three ourths (1}) Acres, more or less, and >ounded by Abbeville Cotton Mills, tVilliam Benton, Childs, Jones and (there. Terms of Sale?Cash. Purchaser to >ay for papers. R. E. HILL, Master A. C., S. 0. Ab oeviile-Oreenwo od MUTUAL IISDRAHC1 ASSOCIATION. Property Insisted, 12,100,000 February 1st, 1912, TC7RITE TO OR CALL on the underslgne. *" or the Director of your Townshl) .'or any Information yon may desire aboni >ur plan of Insurance. We Insure yonr property against destruc .Ion by FISE, W1SDSHEK OS LIBSTHIN6, ind do so oheaper tb?n 'any Insnrann* rvw pany In existence. Dwelllnzs covered wltb metal roofs are losore'l for 25 per cent, cheaper .ban other property. Remember we are prepared to prove to yoi that ours Is the safest and cheapest plan o: Insurance known. J. B. BLAKE, Oen. Agent Abbeville, S. C. J. FRASEB LYON, Pre*. Abbeville, S. C. o S. G. Majors Greenwood J..T. Mabry Cokesbury W. B. Acker Donalds T. 8. Ellis Due West W. W. L. Keller Long Cane I. A. Keller jsmiinvnie D. A. Wardlaw Cedar Spring W. W. Bradley Abbeville Dr. J. A. Anderson Antrevllle S. 8. Boles Lowndesville A. O.'Grant Magnolia A. B. Kennedy Calhoun Mills 8. P. Morrah Bordeaux H. L. Raaor Walnut Grove W. A. Nlckles Hodges M. G. Bowles Coronaoa D.8. Hattlwanger Ninety-Six A. D. Tlmmerman Klnards Ira B. Taylor. Fellowship Joseph Lake PbCBnlx J. W. Smith Verdery J. H. Chiles .Bradley J. W. Lyon Troy A. W. Youngblood Yeldell G. E. Dorn Calllson G. E. Dorn Klrkaeye 8. H. Btevens Brooks Abb?vlUe, 8 0., Feb. 1, 1912, Time Now to Laj Heavy VVintt Summer has coi are Ready for Swell Line of Li Two-Piece One of our Thin, Cool Serge Coats, will worth living thes Prices $1.50 e Agents for jpkins' line of J Suits I 9 , ?3Z3 g, be?t Wearing hing Made. &l i 2.00 to $6.00 tfit with a Pair of \ Oxfords our feet glad nd $4.00 W. WHIr THIS IS PROGRES SIVE FARMING, j Newberry Observer. c Messrs. Welch and Joe Wilbur, among the progressive farmers of Newberry county, have taken a step forward in im proved agriculture. Their farm has been noted for several years as one of the best cultivated. Last year the vetch and other cover crops were the admiration of hun dreds of farmers who' went from every section of the county to see their farm. On Friday they carried out to their farm from Newberry a 20-horse-power engine and harrow, and other machinery con nected with them, made by the Inter national Harvester company and sold by the Summer-Wise Stock company of this place. The engine weighs 15,000 pounds and Its wheels have a tread of two feet and it is ten feet from the outside of one to the outside of the other. The engine made the trip from Newberry to the farm, by way of Nance street and its extension, climbing the hills without trouble and go ing through two or three pretty bad places m Columbus wagons are thoroi of select wood stock; they ai striped; they are durable. We every requirement. We have horse styles. There is a Columt we want you to inspect. Call t< your advantage to use this wago Columbus The Best that JVJ Abbeville Mo ABBEVIL ight Weight Suits Alpaca, or Blue make life e hot days to $7.00 >n the way. It pulled only the harrow, >ut could have pulled several tons more, t was put to work breaking up an old orn field at once; which It did to perfec lon, the twenty disks cutting deep into he soil and leaving a soft, smooth surface en feet wide as it passed roupd and round he field. It takes only one man to run it. ?he fuel used is gasolene. The Wilburs bought this traction engine s a matter of economy and to save their aules. It with one man can do the work >f four or five men and as many mules and loes it better. One of the finest sights to be seen is a leld of volunteer oats, of 30 or 40 acres, ust beyond the Wilbur residence. The iats are not so thick as they might have ieen if sown, but they are tall and have arge, full heads, and growing thick in the iats is a splendid crop of vetch, now In nil bloom. The oats and vetch will make bout two tons of the very best hay to the ?re and will be ready for cutting next reek. it is worn) any man s wnue w gu uul o the Wilbuc farm, three miles northwest f Newberry, and see what can be done by mproved methods. : them in both one and two ?us wagon on our floor that Delay and learn why it is to n of unquestioned quality. Wagons [oney Can Buy tor Car Co., LE, S. C. . . _ ' ^