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II VUUVWUUJ ) , i LOCAL J I ISsssssssssssssssssssssss^^ ? -~.._ I Mrs. Frank Wilson, ot watts, was in the city Monday. ^ 3 Mr. W. E. Hill has returned from a visit to Salisbury, N. C. _______ C Mrs. H. Weinraub, of Calhoun Falls ^ was in the city Tuesday. Mrs. H. E. Matthews spent several { days last week in Atlanta with friends \ Mr. 0. Y. Brownlee was In the city * for a few hours last Monday on business. ( i Miss Daisy Maxwell left Monday ? for Augusta, where she will visit her ( sister. c ] Mrs. John Black of Antreville, was in the city Saturday looking after business. i I Mrs. Charlie Kine: and children ( spent last week at McCormick with ( relatives. , ? ^ Mrs. Furman Milford, of Calhoun Falls, was in the city shopping last Saturday. Miss Edith Leach is visiting her mnt. M^s Ada Leach in Chattanooga 3 this week. ______ c Walter McDonald came over from s Atlanta and spent the week-end with c his parents. 1 Capt. Emory Penney has gone out to Birmingham on business connected with the Seaboard. ^ Mrs. E. V. Snipe, of Winder, Ga., ^ spent several days this week here the J guest of Mrs. Lucie E. Cochran. * Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Nickles went j1 over to Hodges last Sunday and spent a the day with home folks. p 1: Miss Mary Hill Harris is in Greenville this week on a visit to her sister, 1 Mrs. Henry Hagerman. Mr. J. A. Stevenson, a prosperous farmer of Long Cane, was in town g yesterday on business. | ??? a Mrs. J. Allen Smith is at home af- I ter an extended viist to her brother t in Batesburg. .Mrs. Albert Power has returned "to her home at Brownlee, after an extended visit to Mrs. J." L. McMillan. . > r William Martin, oi spartanourg, | n is in the city on a visit to his grand- b mother, Mrs. H. M. Pennel. i: c Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Wilson motored i up to Brevard, N. C., last Saturday I and spent until Monday with Mrs. e Wilson's home folks. r Miss Mary Quarles Link is at home a after a pleasant time spent in Atlanta c visiting and taking in Grand Opera i "week. t f Miss Hettie McCullom and Miss \ Mary Smith are at home after a j month spent in the low country visit- \ ing friends. u - t Dr. and Mrs. J. Irwin Gilmer, Miss- t es Hannah and Carrie Cochran and a Gottlob Neuffer went up to Anderson i Sunday and spent the day with Miss t Bessie Cochran. Mrs. Elbert White and Miss Ruth Link went over to Toccoa, Ga., last Wednesday to attend the funeral of J their cousin, Mrs. J. S. Smith. 1 Mrs. Emory Penney came over c. 1 O J J from Lancaster last ounuay auu spent the day with Capt. Penney, at 2 v the hQwp of Mr. Andrew Penney on v I)epot Hill. ? M*. and Mrs. Jas. S. Cochran, g Misses Bessie Murray and Sadie Ham- c mond and W. J. Bryson went over to Greenwood Monday night to attend j the Chautauqua. s C Mrs. H. M. Kearsey of Augusta, ^ spent last Saturday and Suhday in ^ the city the guest of her brother, Mr. ^ J. M. Martin. She was accompanied t by a fine looking young son. t \ Fritz Van Kolnitz, base ball coach e for the Wofford team, came down from Due West last Friday and spent t the night with W. M. Graydon. ^ _____ r Miss Lander went over to Green- T "wood last Friday and took in the $ - ?j.?j?: x <;nautauqua enwrutimuciiui uuw Sunday. People from the country have only one piece of news to tell when they \ come to town and that it that the j drouth is killing the cotton and the c grain crop is ruined. ? c The examination for the award of j vacant scholarships in Wintnrop Col- ? legt and for the admission of new g students will be held at the County t Court House on Friday, July 7th, j at 9 o'clock, A. M. c Mrs. Frank B. Gary and Mrs. E. C. j[ Horton left Tuesday morning for 2 Anderson, where they will attend the I? South Carolina Federation of Wo-jJ men's Clubs. Mrs. Horton is chair- < man of the committee on Rules and t Mrs. Gary is Vice-Prseident of the State Organization. p U Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Philson and : \ Messrs John and Victor Lomax went I over to Clinton last Sunday and spent t the day. They went by the dirt road t and kicked up a lively dust both go- a ing and coming. JI NEWS Mr. Tom Liddell, of Lowndesvillt vas a business visitor to the cit yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. George Gambre spent Sunday in Clinton with Mr. an VIrs. E. J. Adair. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Brown, Mis Charlotte Brown and C. D. Browr Fr., motored over to Trenton las Sunday and spent the day with reh ives. Mrs. T. Gordon White goes over t Greenwood this morning to visi 'riends and to hear Madame Glaus en sing on the closing night of th Chautauqua. She will be the gues >f Mrs. John Blake and Mrs. Mc ftssick. The city should rest in peace dui ng the present week as a good num >er of the lawyers will be away al ending the sessions of the suprem :ourt. The eighth circuit was cal! id on yesterday, and four days tim s allotted to it for the hearing o :ases. TEACHERS EXAMINATION. The regular teachers examinatio vas held in the court house las rhursday. There were about fort :ontestants and the questions wer iuch that it was an all day job. Mos >f the young people trying wer roung girls. WELCOMED TO ABBEVILLE. Mr. W. W. Matthews went up t Jreenville last Saturday ^nd met Mr Iatthews and brought her to Abbe ille and they will make this plac heir home in the future. They wil iccupy the Cason cottage on Uppe >Iain street. Mr. Matthews has bee: n Abbeville for the past six week md has made many friends who ar :lad to have his wife and extern ter a warm, welcome to Abbeville. They have two bright and attrac ive children. CARD OF THANKS. I take this method of thanking th ;ood people of Abbeville for thei lelp and kindness druing the illnes md death of my dear sister, Jenni jipford. May God bless the doctoi he minister and all others. M. F. Cooley. MR. HATCH HERE. Mr. H. A. Hatch, of New York, i nember of the firm of Deering Mill) :en & Co., and the president of Ab ieville Cotton Mills, was here attend ng a meeting of the directors of th orporation on Monday. He cam n Sunday and spent the time wit) ?lr. J. Foster Barnwell, the Treasur r and General Manager of the Mills Mr. Hatch is a young man in th nill business, but he has had the cap ible training of the elder member ?f his firm. He is progressive in hi deas both as to the management o he mill and the treatment of the of icers and employees of the mills wit] vhich he is connected. He is op losed to child labor in the mills, am vill take steps to see that all childrei inder fourteen years are kept out o he mills as employees. He believe hat children should be kept in schoo is much as possible, and he plans t nterest the parents in educatinj hem. THE SLOAN WILL CASE. The supreme court heard argu nents Tuesday in the Sloan will case n this case Mess. John and Fran] Cerr filed suit against executor am levisees of the will of the late Mrs osephine E. Sloan, of Cedar Spring illeging that she was under contrac vith them to will them all her estate ind that she had violated the agree nent by willing her estate for th nost part to institutions of the As ociate Reformed Presbyteriai ihurch. The case was heard on circuit b; Ion. Ernest Moore, the judge of th ixth circuit, and he rendered a de xee favoring the Kerrs. From thi lecree an appeal has been taken t he supreme court which will re iew the law and evidence taken ii he case. The estate is worth some hing like sixty thousand dollars yhich makes it of considerable inter ;st to the parties to the action. The Mess. Kerr are represents >y Mess. Graydon & Graydon, o Abbeville, and Cothran, Dean & Coth an, of Greenville. The executor i epresented by Mess. Grier, Pari 't Nicholson, of Greenwood, and Wm \ Greene, of Abbeville. A BOY TO BE PROUD Of. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Thornton hav >een receiving lately cards from th J. S. S. Tennessee called the "Fore :astle Log," which gives a runninj iccount of the doings of the sailor >n board the vessel. Their son, younj liOwrie Thornton, is on the Tennes iee and is making a record as a fin ailor. The cards tell of the trip o he Tennessee from the Norfol' ilavy Yard around the South Ameri :an coasts to Cihil and Valparaiso ind to Callao, Peru, the round tri >eing something over fourteen thous tnd miles. On board the ship wa Secretary McAdoo, his wife am nembers of the International Hig' ^ommsision and the trip was mad o take this party. The sailors must have a prett; rood time in spite of the work whic' frt maL'P nn the rpcular dav. fo ve see from the cards that there ar >oxing matches on board, moving pic ures at night on deck, a minstre roupe in the way of entertainmenl l big barbecue at one of the landinj >laces for two hundred of the sailor ^ and "beans" every Tuesday and Fri? day on board ship. !|! Every one is glad to hear of Lowj|: rie Thornton and to know that life ^ j!' holds much of pleasure for him and j|| taht wherever an Abbeville boy a1 goes he is a credit to his people and g j|| his town. e, Iji DEATH OF MR. W. C. HADDON. gj a . ?, News was received in tnis city r ny day morning of the sudden death of Mr. William C. Haddon, of Due West at a hospital in Chester Thursday U night. His body was brought to in d Greenwood on the early Seaboard c| train and taken to Donalds over the I trolley at 6 o'clock. |tc The announcement of Mr. Had- ^ don's death will come as a great B I shock to his many friends in Green-1 wood, especially the northern part of tl the county where he lived a number w of years and where he was most ki highly esteemed. He had been in m t poor health for the past several M weeks and went to Chester on Tues- R g day for an examination with the expectation of undergoing an opera- P] tion. \ ? Mr. Haddon was reared at Due West and was a son of the late R. W. bl Haddon. He lived in Due West dur- I ing his early manhood, later moving d< ?. near Cokesbury, where he farmed for pi e a number of years. Last year he. re- w [. turned to his old home at Due West. I, e Mr. Haddon reared a large family, in f He has two sons at Clemson College, ol two in the employ of the Piedmont & h< Northern at Greenville and another i teaching in Alabama. His two daugh- b; ters are in school at_Due West. Mr. H n Haddon married a Miss Kennedy , of . ?rirooiiwnftri Journal. gi tr Aiiuciouu* vii.vw.... e * ? DEATH OF MRS. 'm !t LENNIE FISHER SMITH 6 oi Mrs. J. S. Smith of Toccoa, Ga., died at her home on May 3rd, 1916, after a short illness and was buried o Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Smith was s Miss Lennie Fisher and spent her r( s- childhood and youth in Abbeville. ' cj e She has many friends and relatives II in Abbeville and the county, who } r grieve to know of her death and exn tend their sincere sympathy to the s family. e She was married some years ago to d Mr. Smith of Toccoa, and has taken a prominent place in that town- in > church work and in the civic improve- th ment. She will be greatly missed. Mrs. Smith is survived by her hus- in band and two young sons and a baby tli girl several days old, and her father, ol e Mr. J. S. Fisher, and a sister, Mrs. ai r J. M. Thornley. s te e oi A HAPPY MARRIAGE. fll . F: Pi Miss Pauline Harrison and Mr. M. . Luther Link were happily married by M Rev. H. Waddell Pratt last Thursday a afternoon, May 4th, 1916. Only a - few friends of the contracting par- - ties witnessed the ceremony. . Miss Harrison is ine olde^r daughe ter of Mr. and Mrs. G. a. Harrison e and is a young woman of many g h charms. She is bright and lively m - and has many friends who wish her >. much happiness. 9 e Mr. Link is an Abbeville County IS - man and is a successful farmer. He B s is to be congratulated on his good flj s luck. I f ; DEATH OF J. C. CLINKSCALES i ? Mr. John C. Clinkscales died May 3rd, 1916, at his home near little ? River, after a long illness of heart disease and was buried on the next I day at Little River church, Rev. W. Q J. Foster preaching the sermon. He was in his sixtieth year and had led a quiet and unassuming life. BEAUTIFYING THE PLANT. j The city water plant is being beauI* tified in the most approved style and ? will soon be a place worth looking at. d For the past three years the plant > has been gradually improved and a ^ s summer house and a hedge has been a * put around the resevoir on top of the jjg !? hill. Now the grounds around the rf power house have been laid out and f, e another summer house put up. Grass 8 and flowers and vines will be planted n and eventually a fountain will be in- 8 stalled. This improvement is due to 8 y Mr. Anderson, wno is an excellent m e constructive engineer, and Mr. Dead- I * wyler, who is a man of good taste. 9 0 J. E. SWEARINGEN 2 J TO BE MARRIED | ? Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Lanius K - of Harlowton, Mont., announce the ' engagement of their sister, Miss Mary I ^ Hough, to John E. Swearingen of I f Columbia. The wedding will take I * * i ii-- 1 1? TV J ~ place in June at me nome ui ur. unu s Mrs. R. C. Bruce of Greenville, k Miss Hough is a graduate of Winl? throp college and is well known in South Carolina. Mr. Swearingen has been State superintendent of education in South Carolina since January, 1909. He is e a nephew of Senator B. R. Tillman, ? and is a native of Edgefield county. He was graduated with highest honors s from the University of South Caros lina in 1898. HOW IT IMPRESSES RACHEL. e f k Last week the Literary Society of i- the second grade held their usual i, meeting Friday, and the program was p devoted to Memorial Day. Several i- patriotic songs were sung and many s verses of beautiful sentiment were B ^? J wu:i_ tu: ?ta d reciitju. *yime tins was guuig wu n h. little Rachel Minshall composed the B e following poem and gave it to her a teacher, which shows pretty well $ y what Rachel thinks of it all: a r j The Poem of Death. Sleep, my dear soldiers, sleep on ^ Sj !l While the others tight for your nag, | n Your flag is loved by all Americans, KB ? Dear soldiers, sleep on, while we "A s brag. t NEWS FROM MRS. MAULTZBY. The friends in Abbeville of Mrs. Catherine Klugh Maultzby, will hear ith regret that she is seriously ill t her home in Bennettsville, Mrs. lugh is in Bennettsville now, and very one hopes that good news will ime to anxious relatives in Abbeville >on. LIDDELL-BASKIN WEDDING. The marriage of Miss Kate Liddell id Mr. Thomas P. Baskin took place t the Lowndesville Presbyterian lurch, S. C., at high noon, Tuesday The bridal party entered the church ? the sweet strains of Mendelssohn's Tedding March, rendered by Mrs. T. . Jones. The bride entered with her broler, Mr. T. C. Liddell, and the groom ith his best man, Mr. St. Clair Basin. Miss Gussie Cunningham was aid of honor. . The ushers were, Messrs B. E. Allen, E. W. Harper, Jr embert Allen, Geo. Harper. The ceremony was impressively ronounced by Rev. H. C. Fennel, ieir former pastor. The bride looked beautiful in her ue travelling suit. The church was most artistically ;corated with flowsrs and potted ants, with a lovely background of hite, draped with ivy. After the cerepiony the contractig parties started for Atlanta, and 5her points. They will make their jme in Anderson, S. C. The Bridal Chorus was rendered y Miss Ella Floyd and Mrs. E. W. arper. The large concourse of guests reatly enjoyed the well arranged iception held at the residence of the ride's brother immediately after the tarriage. The lovely bride was the recipient f many nice and valuable presents. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. The announcement below will be sad with cordial interest in the ty: Mrs. J. Edwin Roddey announces the engagement of her daughter Mary Simonton to Mr. William B. Klugh of Rock. Hill. ie wedding to take place in June. The above will be read with special terest and pleasure by friends of ie young people throughout the Carinas, where both are widely known id are social favorites. The bride-to-be is the eldest daughr of the late J. Edwin Roddey, one : Rock Hill's most popular and in-1 jential business men, and of Mrs. I annie (foe) Roddey, formerly of, \T n I llXSDOro, i>. v_/., a mcuiucx vi a pAvm- . ent family of the old North State, i iss Roddey is one of the loveliest id most charming of the city's soHHBHmiSilHBi HAS AL1 New Ties 1|h Silk, 50c up. Wash, 25c to 50c. Hats Straw Hats and Pa- ii^sVfI namas. Featuring the celebrated Cro- (b fut & Knapp, rang- , ing in price from I sfel nO to $5.00. II Oxfords / Stacy Adams, $6.00 Forbush, $5.00. J &pr, Palm Beach and Co* sirable shades and sty! ciety girls, and her friends are rejoicing tha*" her marriage will not sever their feasant associations. Mr. Klugh is the son of the late j Judge J. C. Klugh and Mrs. Klugh, of ( Abbeville, but has for several years { resided in Rock Hill, where he is as- 1 sistant manager of the insurance de- ; partment of the First Trust and Sav- 1 ings bank. He is a graduate of the < University of South Carolina and is a young man possessed of those traits and qualifications which con tribute to success in every phase of life. The marriage will be solemnized in June.?Rock Hill Ex. MRS. OWEN SICK. The manv friends of Mrs. M. C. Owen will regret to know that she is seriously sick at the home of her daughter, Mrs. P. B. speed. Mrs. Owen is greatly beloved by the members of the Methodist church in which she has always taken a great interest. She is an earnest Worker in civics and much of the beauty of the town is due to her good taste. Every one hopes for an early recovery for her. j 1 MAKE OUR STORE YOUI j B0WDEN-S1MPI LADIES! & When Summer's Sun Cast* It's Burning Rays Over Your Tender Skin, It I* Then That You Need Good Face Creams, Lotions and All Kinds of Toilet j|! Necessities. jj? Our Toilet Department is filled | lit with Face Creams that remove ;i; Freckles, Sunburn and Tan and ( i; return to the skin its normal 1 velvety appearance. We have lotions that remvoe the rough:j: ness and heal cracked skins. Toilet powders that beautify jjj and protect the complexion. Our stock represents the pror ;|| ducts of the best manufacturers < :j| of both foreign and domestic goods.' The Daylight Corner i i A Man's Store ^ AJMAN ing" S il Cloth in all the very 11 les, $11.00 up. Just arrived by express, Newest Caps. 50c and $1.00 each MRS. OGILVIE ENTERTAINS ' ' ' . I "m ^ Mrs. J. M. Ogilvie entertained a :ew friends Friday afternoon in hon>r of her mother, Mrs. Eva Turner, ind sister, Miss Pearl Turner, of Coljmbia, who are visiting her. After, i pleasant time spent in conversation, :he hostess served a delightful salad course. . \' CADET COLEMAN HURT. ' ; ; Cadet Carl Oolcman, of Green- . wood; was seriously hurt in Charles?n last week by falling from a street 1 ; railway car Saturday morning, while sn his way to a May day picmc. Cadet Coleman is the oldest son of J, N. Coleman of Greenwood, and is a lephew of Mr. M. T. Coleman of Abbeville. . ' The many friends of the family tope for the young man an early re :overy. The news from his bedside Tuesday morning was that he had lot regained consciousness and that le had been operated on for fracured skull. The young man took an excellent itand in his classes and had a bright future before him. ? - R DOWNTOWN HOME ? SON DRUG CO. ABBEVILLE^ LEADING- | f \ ) PKESCKIKIIUIN TL DRUGGISTS 1 ; ' i ' : """ > NUNN ALLY'S ICE CREAMS and CANDIES | . RECEIVED DAILY ^ Complete Line of Stationery, Cards, | Inks, Tablets, Etc. ;: ii; UNEXCELLED DELIVERY i SERVICE ; ; is Phone 107 : : ?????????1???> : ' ' * * WEARS k Shirts That can be worn with comfrot no matter how hot the weather $1.00 to ? $2.00. Underwear. Wilson Bros, and Cooper's, 50c to $1.50 Suit. uits | :ewest and most de . 7v V-". *-.v . W iTW-J.^