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' ' VY *':,;;:"S Abbeville Press and Banner | $1.5? 1 ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1916. b #usHED 1 A TEAR. ' 7 1844 - ?, MILL VILLAGE MODERN Directors of Abbeville ( Five Thousand Dollai e ujroi&tii? and Assembly Hj Once?Other At a meeting of the dire< MHIs held in the offices of th? lar three per cent. semi-anD able on July 1st. and an ex1 was declared payable on Ma The sum of five thousand begin work on a waterworks mill village. Every house ii nith the two plants, and mod to all houses when the plants The sum of two thousam the purpose of erecting a sch in the village, and the sum of propriated to be spent in edr amount, a supplemental sum propriated by the trustees c ploy a trained lady teacher, a be employed to teach a night the village. The plan is to g teachers, to do the work. Th the superintendent of the mil] a home. n. mill dironfrtra will a JL UC Uilll Ull VVVV1U ?* *** i*. and women seeking an educ order to better fit themselves TOMATO CLUBS READY FOR 11 CANNING CLUB WORK GROWING GIRLS DOING WELL WITH THEIR GARDENS. During the last two weeks the County Agent for the Girls' Canning dabs has visited each one of her clubs and we are interested to learn that the girls are at work and are doing even better work than last year The girls who were in the work last year are adding beans, cucumbers, peppers, and many other vegetables to their gardens. Two are trying to grow celery. Most of the girls had a oart of their tomatoes in the field and all have an abundance of nice plants and a nicely prepared garden to plant them in. The following clubs are now at work: 1. Abbeville Canning Club. 21 members, President, Mary Graydon; Vice-President, Gladys Wham; Sect'y Maude Hawthorne. 2. Antreville Canning Club. 6 members; Pres. Eunice Ferguson; Secretary, Elizabeth Mc Carter. 3. Cold Spring Canning Club, 8 members. Pres. Rubv Uldrick: Vice Pres. Bertha Stone; Sect'y, Ola Winn. 4. Bethia Canning Club, 5 members. Pres. Julia Link. 5. Due West Canning Club. Six members. Pres. Belle Nance; VicePresident, Edith Todd; Secretary, Willie Caldwell. 6. Monterey Canning Club?Five members. 7. Lebanon Canning Club?Four members. 8. Donalds Canning Club?Two members. 9. Warrenton Canning Club?Two members. 10. McCormick Canning Club? Seven members. Pres., Willie Mae Furqueron; Vice-President, Martha BelL _ Of this number, 45 are trying the whole 1-10 acre, while the others are taking 25 plants along with other vegetables intending to specialize on pickles and fancy canning. In some cases the girls are not able to secure the 1-10 acre, and sometimes the agent advises smaller gardens where the girls are too small to attempt more. TRAVELING ON THE SABBATH Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gambrell and Mr. A. M. Stone went over to Greenwood last Sabbath and took a ride around the city. TO HAVE I CONVENIENCES Cotton Mills Appropriate rs for Waterworks and -New School Building dl to Be Erected at Improvements. stors of the Abbeville Cotton i company on Monday, the regutual dividend was declared payera dividend of three per cent iyl5th. I dollars was appropriated to ( ] and sewerage System for the ; 1 the village will be connected [era appliances will be supplied i ; are completed. | 1 dollars was appropriated for J ool building and assembly hall f twelve hundred dollars was ap- 1 icational purposes. From this i l will be given to the amount ap>f the city schools, so as to emnd with the balance a man will school and do welfare work in e t a man and his wife, who are le house formerly occupied by i will be turned over to them as Iso co-operate with young men sation in textile institutions in i for the mill work. BIG WHITE STAR LINER CYMERIC GOES DOWN London, May 8.?The White r Star Liner Cymeric, bound from New York to Liverpool, is reported to be in a sinking I condition somewhere at sea. White Star officials, from re- | ports received, believe the ves- \ sel was torpedoed. The Cymeric carried no passengers ] and was said not to be armed. She had a cargo of munitions and a crew of one hundred men. : COPIES OF REPORTS FOR THE BANKS HEREAFTER Washington, May 3.?The comptroller of the currency announces that beginning June 1, each national bank examined by national bank examiners will be furnished a copy of r the report of its condition made to i his office bv the examiners. . "It is believed," says a statement by the comptroller, "that the receipt by national banks from the comptroller's office of these reports twice a year will relieve any bank of considerable expense to which they are now subject for periodical examination by outside public accountants." OFF; FOR THE SUMMER. ? Miss Eliza Gary left this week for \ an extended visit to her sister, Mrs. t Sidney Eason, in Wilmington, Del. j She will spend the summer and looks y forward to a delightful time. ELECTING NEW OFFICERS * The regular meeting of the Andrew Hamilton chapter D. A. R. was held last week at the home of Mrs. J. V. j Elgin. This was the ending of the j year and a general resume of the > work was gone over. The year has . been both pleasant and profitable, and in the coming year the chapter i / hopes to do much in the way of the'preservation of the history of the t state and county. In the election of officers the following ladies were chosen to serve n for the next chapter year: Regent, j Mrs. W. A. Harris; first vice regent, y Mrs. fJ F r.olvort vino me* gent, Mrs. J. V. Elgin; registrar, Mrs. A. B. Morse; corresponding secretary, Mrs. May Harris Hill; treasurer, Mrs. Mrs. G. A. Neuffer; recording secretary, Mrs. G. Thomson; historian, Mrs. W. O. Cromer. ; C The selection of Mrs. Harris is a v compliment to her and an excellent r thing for the chapter for she comes n to them with an excellent record and o full of energy and ability. o Mrs. Cromer made a charming lit- t tie taiK wnen sne turned over me o 'work to the new president after which cream and cake was served by the ii hostess. t MEXICAN BANDITS RAID TEXAS TOWI SEVERAL AMERICANS KILLE WHEN MEXICANS ATTACK BORDER TOWN. Alpine, Texas, May 7.?Villa ba dits, some seventy in number, ford' the Rio Grande Friday night ai sweeping fifteen miles inland < American soil, raided the litle sett] ment of Glenn Springs and attack a detachment of American cavalr consisting of nine men, of Troop , the Fourteenth cavalry. Three troopers and a little ten ye old boy were killed, two cavalrym were wounded and another is missin He is believed to be a prisoner of tl bandits who are now fleeing sout ward into Coahuila, Mexico. Two American citizens, J. Deemc and a man named Compton, accor ing to reports received here, we carried across the Rio Grande and r ports have it that their throats we cut A posse of fifty citizens of Ma thon tonight are in pursuit of tl Villistas. The missing trooper is Private Ro coe Tyree. The little boy is the si of Compton. He was deaf and dun and bandits are thought to have ki ed him because he could not answ their questions. The two wounded troopers, Privat T Biii/iV qhH Fmnlf Defree we brought here this afternoon bad wounded. Birck's body was filled wi small brass pieces of tacks fired fro a shot gun. Defree was burned abo the head and shoulders. * In a little adobe house, nine cavi rymen made their fight for li against the seventy or more Villia bandits at Glenn Springs. A hail shot poured for more than two hou into the single window of the ado house but the cavalrymen kept up steady rifle fire in defiant answ< Then the Mexican leader ordered fi balls to be thrown on the roof, thic ly thatched with candalaria. Troops Made Dash. The blazing weed tortured the si diers below and burnt their hea and bodies. Smashing the door, t troopers broke for the open. As th ran, two were killed, one is missii and it is believed he is dead. Anoth was killed as he tried to clir through a window. According to the story brought he the Mexican bandits first attacked store and one or two houses in S quillas, where they made Deemer a: Compton prisoners and then sped miles northward to make their atta on Glenn Springs which is fringed 1 rugged hills. At Glenn Springs th wrecked a wax factory belonging William T?llio Viiq ctnrA nnH rpsidenr besides one or two other small buil ings. At 5:30 Thursday evening the ma aody of fifty to seventy mount* (Continued on Page Four.) Brief Liti r PRESS AND BANNER TO MOVE The office and composing room < rhe Press and Banner will be mov rune 1st, from the Barnwell buil< ng to the store-room formerly occi )ied by the post office. The ne luarters are being put in first clas ihape for the change. A cemei loor is being laid in the entire buil< njj, and it will be equipped with a nodern conveniences for a printin iffice. The front part of the building wi >e occupied by the book-keeper an >y Miss Carrie Cochran, who operat< he linotype machine. People wh ire interested in seeing the big N< J Linotype in action will be able 1 ake a view from the front, an earn just how near it comes to bein luman in its work. MOTHERS' DAY TO BE OBSERVED BY METHODIST Mothers' Day will be fittingly ot reved at the Methodist church Sur lay morning at 11 o'clock. Dr. J. I )aniel, pastor o fthe church, wi leliver an appropriate sermon 3 his hour, at which time the publi 3 earnestly urged to share in thi iumble tribute to the "best mothe n the world." An impressive fes ure of the service will be the weai ng of white and red roses, the whit oses being worn by those whos nothers have passed into the Grea Jeyond, while the red roses will b /orn in respect to the mothers wh re yet living. DEATH OF MR. BEAUDROT. Mr. T. C. Beaudrot was called t ilreenwood last week to see his fathe /ho was taken suddenly sick on Wee 3 1 1: J ?.:i o leauay, cuiu imgereu uuui ounua ncrning. Mr. Beaudrot was a ma f high character and raised a famil f splendid boys who are takin heir places in the affairs of the town >f Greenwood and Abbeville. The friends of Mr. T. C. Beaudro n Abbeville sympathize with him i his loss. GERMANY'S REPLY N TO AMERICAN NOTE ;D GERMANY SENDS HER ANSWER TO AMERICAN ULTIMATUM ON SUBMARINE WARFARE. n- Germany's answer to the American ed ultimatum has been received at Washad ington breaking the tension of the \ t>n long wait since the United States note le- was delivered to the Imperial Goved ernment on April 20th. It is very F y, likely that upon the Teutonic reply A. hangs the future happiness and friendliness of the two nations, ar The die has been cast, the form en moulded, the thrill is here and even ? ig. as you read each successive word and *" be sentence that has taken three weeks * h- to gain, all America is engrossed in ? absorbing the import of each chosen ? sr, word and sentence composed by the " d- leading minds of thpt country across ' re the seas. P e" ( fc re Berlin, May 5.?Via wireless to Say- n ville?Following is the text of the f tie note of the German Government in ^ reply to the American note respect- c '8* ing submarine warfare, delivered on a Thursday by Gottlieb von Jagow, the u ?, foreign secretary to Ambassador Ge- p ll* rard: . ci er "The undersigned on behalf of the s1 Imperial German Government has ff the honor to present to His Excellen- - *c cy, the Ambassador ox tne umtea States, Mr. James W. Gerard, the 111 following reply to the onte of April S 20, regarding the conduct of German ut submarine warfare. . "The German Government handed over to the proper naval authorities s, *e for early investigation the evidence g concerning the Sussex as communi- jj of cated by the Government of the t] United States. Judging by the re-jb be suits that the investigation has hither- L a to yielded the German Governmerit! j( 5r* ig alive to the possibility that the ship p F? following reply to the note of April a as having been torpedoed by a Ger- b man submarine is actually identical 0 . with the Sussex. n Jf" "The German Government begs to c ?8 reserve further communication on the i (j "e matter until certain points are ascerey tained, Which are of decisive import- a ance for establishing the facts of the g e? case. Should it turn out that the com- ? nb mander was wrong in assuming the ^ vessel to be a man-of-war the Ger- a re man Government will not fail to 0 a draw the consequences resulting n lo" therefrom. nt* "In connection with the case of the Sussex the Government of the United States made a series of statements by the gist of which is the assertion that c ey the incident is to be considered but to one instance of a deliberate method 7 e? of indiscriminate destruction of vesd sels of all sorts, nationalities and destinations by German submarine ? in commanders. ^ jd "The German government must P li (Continued on Page Five.) : f : n lie Newsies ? w 0 VISITORS FROM DENVER. J c< Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Thomas have >f been in the city for the past three ? id days visiting at the home of Judge m i- R. E. Hill. They are on their way i- home from Florida to Denver and fj w stopped for this visit. Mr Thomas is * 3S the President of the Merchants Bank it of Denver and is a man of affairs in i- that city. Mrs. Thomas is well known " . -J _ ,u over tne state naving uvea in virsunig ville and in Abbeville and was known everywhere as a beautiful and accom11 plished woman. She keeps her youth id and her beauty and it is a pleasure " 53 to have her come to Abbeville and io renew acquaintance with her old bl o. friends. x> cf d A PLEASANT PARTY. g Mrs. Frank Andrews entertained Monday night at her home on Vienna n( street in honor of her sister, Miss g, g Annie Wages, of Winder, Ga., who vj is in the city on a visit. The time u was spent in playing cards and in I jyj >- tripping the light fantastic toe to the jjC ?- strains of the Victrola. I fr Delightful refreshments were serv- s0 t ' = ? CELEBRATING HER BIRTHDAY I . Grace, the little daughter of Mr. ~ and Mrs. Sloan Hall, celebrated her ~ birthday Monday afternoon by inviting her little friends to a party. The t little folks played games and enjoyed the delightful refreshments served. Many pretty presents were received by the little girl in honor of the day. bl sa COMPLIMENT PROF. CHEATHAM, th G< Supt. R. B. Cheatham, has been re- Si o elected. He has occupied his pres-1 ti< t ent position for five years and has ' m I- been eminently satisfactory to the uj y community.?Southern School News, al n dj y RE-ELECTED IN HARTSVILLE re g CO is Prof. L. W. Dick has been re-elect- 1 ed as Principal of the Hartsville im t schools. He has many friends in Ab- | U n beville who will be glad to hear of' er his election. g< AMERICAN MARINES IN SANTO DOMINGO. Force Landed From Warship to Meet Serious Situation in Black Republic Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 8.?In view of the serious situation here, American marines, fullv pnuinnp.H. were landed today on the oatskirts of the city. The French armored cruiser Marseillaise arrived in port this morning. / TIRELESS TELEPHONE ORDER. 'irst Oral Direction to ' Commander at Sea Result of Much Effort. Washington, May 6.?A working ystem of wire and wireless commaication said by army and navy exerts to be unequalled by that of any ther nation was effected today by he navy department as an adjunct t> the preparedness programme. It ras inaugurated by a wireless telehone conversation, the first of its ind ever held,., during which Secreiry Daniels, seated at his desk in the avy department, gave instructions 5 a commander on the bridge of a rarship operating against a theoretial enemy far off the Virginia capes nd received reports from him. Simltaneously other officials of the deartment were in telephone communiation with all the navy yards and tations in continental United States. O CONNECT TROLLEY LINES. urveyor* Work Between Gastonia and Spartanburg. n l 1 n ?* i ' opartandurg, may o.?j.z is unaertood here on good authority that enineers for the Piedmont & Northern nes are at work making a survey of lie proposed line between Spartanurg and Gastonia, which will conect the southern and northern divis>ns of this line. It was the original lan tn hnilH thin lina immfldiatalv fter the completion of the Spartanurg-Greenville-Greenwood line, bat wing to the condition of the financial larket at that time, it was announed that work would be delayed inefinitely. While in Spartanburg some time go J. B. Duke, one of the principal tockholders of the line, announced hat work on the Spartanburg-Gasonia line would be commenced just s soon as traffic conditions on the ther lines justified further investlent on the system. SMITH MUCH PLEASED. ilad Nitrate Section Has Been Accepted. P'T ' Washington, May 8.?The agreelent in the house late to-day on miliary increase bill with the amendlent of Senator E. D. Smith, provid ig iui tuc coiaunoiuiiciu ui muaic lants as both an agricultural and lilitary necessity, is a signal triumph or the junior senator from the Palletto State. Elected to congress, riginally as the friend of the farmer, nd acting always on lines of conductive legislation for their benefit rhat has been done today as a result f the initiative on the part of Senaar Smith should be recognized the ountry over for its real value. Asked for a statement tonight, Sen tor Smith said that he thought nothlg necessary at the present time, he people know, he said, who startj the plan in congress for the ni-ate amendment to the army in:ease bill and now that it is safe he satisfied. TAKING DEGREES. Grand High Priest George T. Bryit of Greenville was in Abbeville ist Friday and conferred degrees on iree Masons Friday night. After the iisiness session a delightful supper as served the Masons by the local apter of the U. D. C. WELCOME VISITORS. Mrs. L. D. Caldwell and Miss Tur- ' r\f riroomvnnH onH Mrs. Rflsrnmh rogden, of Atlanta, were in Abbe- j lie last week visiting Miss Sadie ammond and Miss Bessie Murray. 1 rs. Brogden is well remembered ] ire is Miss Nora Hammand, and her 1 iends were glad to see her looking i well. 1 AMERICA ACCEP WORD OF CI Washington, May 8.?A note ca- j ed by Secretary Lansing to Ambas- < dor Gerard today for delivery to i e Berlin foreign office informs the ] jrman government that the United i ;ates accepts Germany's "declara- ] >n of its abandonment" of its for- 1 er submarine policy and now relies < jon a scrupulous execution of the i tered policy to remove the principal ] ??/-/v* nn r\-P a rvr\r\A i UlgCl Ui on Iiivviiuyv*wa Wi. vuv 5VWV* .lations existing between the two < luntrics. 1 A^ith this acceptance is coupled for- < al notice to Germany that the 1 nited States can not for a moment < itertain, much less discuss, a sug- 1 :stion that respect by German naval ] DESCENDANTS OF 1 1 COVENANTERS 1 . . "'7" ,1 OHIO CITIZEN VISITS GRAVES . OF ANCESTORS IN NEWBERRY COUNTY - ;'J ?- ' " i ' Newberry Herald and News. Chalmers C. White, and wife of vi Steubenville, 0., were : visitors - in Newberry on Saturday and Sunday. While here Mr. White had the privilege to visit the Head Spring, King Creek and' Connor Creek graveyards going by auto through what^^lr white pronounces some of the most picturesque and fertile country-he^ mis seen m the ynited Stata.-Mr WfaHe . and wife are just returning north af- X) ter a winter -spent in: St. Peters bunt, V' Fla. It was the desire of "his mother, S Mrs. Margaret Mitchell Kyle White. deceased, to visit tfteap apcegtjrml . .'3 burying.grounds, but.faer-wish vu - .,j never fulfilled so Mr.- Whijfej.?*,# matter of duty is making it in liar N . jij stead. . . j . .Ti Mr. White on hifi mother's side is ' j&m descended from the Boyd-Ch^lmeri families,. early pioneers in this sec? tion. The branch that went mirth1'. -f, about 1800 along with,friends from $ Chester, S. G., were Covenanters-er ^ Reformed Presbyterians. About 1800 * Rev. D, Alex MeL?o4 pljfttar Ygrk *' vJ* city visited this sectiQn. app l notified > . 4 Covenanters who wished torrempdn In their, comirwnion, to cease. feepttng slaves.. They did so and the Civil-: v ^ War saw this church which Dr. Mc- ; % Leod said was "not any branch,, but jM the root of the Calvinistic church". v ' with not a single church below Haiqn -;*oj and Dixon's line. Other denominations four-flushed and split up North v - - - '* and South, says Mr. Whiter i Furninhed Brilliant Men. . " In. these graveyards and one at ; U Prosperity Mr. White ffeund tomb* .4= stone names of families whose names . . ^ are used to conjure with in the Covenanter church. The Boyds and v Chalmers form some it the most sturdy Covenanters in ?he denomina- ' tion while the latter family has fur- ...?..... niflhed some of the most, brilliant'' % ministers in the A. R. P. church. The V 5 -M Sloans furnished some of the most distinguished ministers and theological instructors in the A. R. P. church. One Sloan was a speaker on the anti-slavery platform with Wendell Phillins and Garrison. Dr. Sloan's one great regret was that Phillips 5 and Garrison neither of whom were orthodox believers could hold the church up as the bulwark of hdman slavery. The Reids whose names are found in local graveyards furnished a descendant, Whitelaw Reid to be the distinguished editor of the New York Tribune and be an ambassador to England. The Renwicks came of a family that furnished the last Covenanters martyr for the scaffold in Scotland. His successor had to be ordained by the Calvinistic church in Holland. 7;;% Now Only in CrtTayardi. Such is the history of a people, a faith, a church represented in the South only by graveyards. That church should erect monuments in the four here and three graveyards at Chester to mark the spot where are buried a people who always stood itiinl wAlinnAiia likorHr trrllA JLUX UVU OUU IQUglVUO UUCi W Jf TT uu feared not the wrath of earthly kings but feared him who is Immanuel. In short the Covenanters dissented frqm voting, holding office, etc., because they held the United States constitution in its failure to recognize, Christ as king of kings to be immortal and of an atheistic-infidel order, also because it says government is ordained of we the people when the Bibls says all government is ordained of God. They hold that the Bible should be the supreme guide in governmental affairs; they will not tolerate members of secret orders in their communion and they hold to the Psalmody of Uncle David as the only manual of praise. Mr. White has been a newspaper reporter for twenty-seven years on the Republican and Democratic papers in his city. From here he goes to Xenia and Cedarville, Ohio, where later generations of the Boyd-Chalmers and Reid families are buried Mr. White is not a member of the Covenanter church though both his parents were once in the church and lis father was a minister of the denomination, but is now in the Presbyterian church, North. TS BERLIN'S 1ANGED POLICY authorities for the rights of citizens sf the United States on the high 3eas should in the slightest degree be made contingent upon the conduct of any other government affecting the rights of neutrals and non-combatants. This is in reply to the concluding statement in the last German note to the effect that while submarine commanders had been ordered to sink no peaceful freight or passenger carrying ships without warning or without safety for passengers and :re\v, the German government would reserve to itself complete liberty of 'tvil rtf n 4-VlA TT wi + A/J Ofnfoc TTTQC* accidlUil Ullicoo tuc \J liitcu utotto nc*o successful in its efforts to break the British blockade.