The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, May 02, 1917, Page THREE, Image 3

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YYetmeauay, xq.ay ian. V V V MT. CARMEL. V ! \ >; Mt. Carmel, April 30.?Misses , Elizabeth and Emily Mae Hester 1 have been complimenting their friends with delightful rides in their . handsome car. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McNier of Willington, atttended the Union j meeting last Sabbath. j Mr. and Mrs. Bob Quattlebaum, and Mr. and Mrs. Patterson of Troy, j spent last Wednesday in Mt. Carmel with Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Harling. ! Mrs. W. R. Powell of Williamston, i Miss Jener Boyd, Dr. Walker and Miss Christie Walker passed through 1 Mt. Carmel Saturday enroute to the home of Miss Boyd, where they spent ! the week-end. ] Dr. and Mrs. P. K. Black, Mrs. T. ] B. Frazier, Misses Dora and Flor- ! ence Black spent a few hours in < Monterey with Mrs. Mamie Lanier, Kitchen walls si always be pa Every housewife loves kitchen. But with steaming sizzling grease and soot fi range, how can you keep a kitchen if the walls car washed ? PEVQI ROMAN ENAMI Paint your kitchen w with Devoe Roman Ena 4 and you can easily clean tl with soap and water. We recommend Devoe Roma j and sanitary and because it { which dirt does not adhere, black and white) to select from. shelving, furniture and all inter Deroe Roman Enamel is easy to api We guarantee that it will give you a p. b. s ABBEVlLi iOn a ho "I I j In additic f 1 lrArtrvmrn1 rt'f t iivccpmg Vi J patented, bi abundance( impurities cj | AUTC 11 is a blessing | J conscientiou I j fitting doors [ I ly insulated ffi INSURE A [ 1 COLDNESS IJ tomatic ci] [j vents the n I j flavors a i [ J PERFECTL [l FOOD, tas I j best. [ J You simp I j' Automatic 1 . J l your refrige Hi ?? T A , I W. A ' laaaaMiMiMnraii last Tuesday afternoon. < Mrs. Nannie Harkness, Miss Sarah i Un.Uinoo Mica Vnmrip. Knox and i UOXA<?VO0) Mtww ^""OD ? Mr. Whit Gilliam spent Sabbath with i Miss Maggie Sutherland. t Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cade and Mrs. * L. E. Conner and little Martha spent J Tuesday in Abbeville. ( Mrs. James. Hester and family are j now enoying a fine Velie car, which they recently purchased. Mrs. P. K. Black, Miss Dora Black , and Mr. Floyd Black spent Tuesday J in Abbeville. J Mrs. Mary Smith spent Thursday , in Elerton. # ? The many friends of Miss Edna i Smith will regret to hear that she is suffering with nervous prostration. We hope she will soon be restored : to health. J The Union meeting held at the J Baptist church in Mt. Carmel last J Sabath was quite a pleasure for the J Mt. Carmel people. Delegates from : McCormick, Troy, Buffalo, and other i churches were present. In the forenoon Mr. Pickens preached an ex- ^ l i j i aouia SKfl ) * j ?v?I1eP i intea n Enamel because it is washable gives a hard, glossy surface to Thirteen attractive tints (and Can be used for walls, ceilings, ior woodwork. >ly and it show* no laps or bruah marks, atisfaction. IPEED LE, S. C. >t day you'll say Jless that water >n to its 100 per cent, sei four food, the Automati uilt-in water cooler, gives )f drinking water that n an reach. The )MATIC Refrig< , too, for its economy o o TxrrkvVmQncViiri nut. into i .U VV V* V ***?w ? ;?its thorough8-pIy walls? CONSTANT >, while the aurculation prefixing of food Qi d INSURES .Y KEPT /|H sting its very f ]( ly must see the before you buy "S| rator. r* At \r 1 L V/AL V J \ KfaagBBBBEfiBBH :ellent sermon, and then the meetng adoumed to partake of a bountiful dinner spread in the school buildng. In the afternoon, interesting mbjects were discussed by Messrs. r. L. Huff of Willington, J. J. Mciellar of Mt. Carmel, Dr. A. J. Bell J1 >f McCorraick, J. W. King of Troy, ind others. The music was excel- " TI rA 4-l> fix? will liovo I tr ?111/. TT C Iivyc wivj nut ?iu * w v*?v neeting here again soon. J*' Mr. George McKelvey spent the ast week-end in Charleston with m ;ome college friends, who are to eave soon for the army. 1. Miss Carrie Mary Gibert of Calloun Falls, spent Sabbath night in ilt. Carmel with Miss Mary Paschal. Between sixty and seventy gallons >f whiskey was in the express office '. n Mt. Carmel when the quart-a- dl nonth law went into effect This vhiskey was returned to the shippers rhe majority of our people rejoice hat no more can come, and whiskey tl1 ntended for Georgia can't be de- ? ivered in South Carolina. : tV Misses Emily Mae and Elizabeth J* iester, Maggie Sutherland, Messrs. Take Dixon and Lawrence Hester, r1 jpent Wednesday afternoon in Ab- ai Seville. ?* Mr. and Mrs. Baker Tarrant Miss Reba Spearman and Mr. Arch Mil- ~ ler of Greenwood, spent Sabbath in bl <lt. Carmel with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. rarrant * Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Burnside, Miss " Buraside and Mrs. Span Harris of &1 rroy, were among the visitors at Lhe Union meeting last Sabbath. Mrs. Boyce Norris and her sweet ~ little children of Atlanta, spent a " few days with her parents, Mr. and . Uapers Kiiey. Dr. Sam Cade of Bordeaux, was in town one day last week. jl Dr. Mattison of McCormick, was a visitor in Mt. Carmel Sabbath. Miss Dora Black spent the week- R and in Calhoun Falls. The Matron's Sewing Circle was R charmingly entertained last Tburs- r: iay afternoon by Mrs. P. K. Black. F? Quite a pleasant afternoon was spent ? ay the ladies present. Delicious re freshments were served by Miss Dora Black. , HOW A DUKE ONCE 1 J* EARNED SIXPENCE Harper's Bazar for May contains t! several good stories about the Duke h, )f Norfolk, who died the other day. ^ Although the premier duke of Eng- m and, and one of the richest men a, ibroad, he was always very shabby hi 11 dress. One day when in Rome, an ^ American tourist caught him bv the sleeve and said, "I have noticed you g oafing about all the stations. Just <j; nake yourself useful and put these n; jags on my cab." The Dolce did the work, and pock- w ited a tip of sixpence with the w words: ''Thank you, madam, it's je lie first money I've ever earned in *> ny life." ? Mrs. J. H. McDill and Miss Louise jjj HcDill are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. Eraser Lyon and other relatives in bi Columbia this week. hi | S Iw i >i< _ * ] ti I Next I! ^ TR ??? I pj % 'i" I I la ' I ! s j tl !!: cooler" jI I CI vice in the ! | *: e, with its 11 & > a constant I j I o odors or j | ? i !ld srator j i | f ice. . The [ ] * t?its tight- 1 |I p |1 n * I a S m ir M I J y> v i 1 aJ ERT IIS & 01 - 1 ttJ is I, a, r ] ni aZfiKfaBKHfiBBBa " A LETTER FROM DOTE. abvUl, mundy nite, Aprile 30. deer editoral,?i heer you is gone: ichoo toun and moove to the kun y the reesin bein that the men ii tun is now bin put to wurk and ai: yin ter eskape by movin to the kun le. that is wun reesin which in :ed me to moove ter watts, i seec ird times cummin fur ther toui an and i sais ter miself Dote tail p yore bed an walk ter watts, s. c was up toun sattidy and i heari 1 bout it frum dix sonly. he sec tat he hed bin visitin on greanvi reat resintly and he foun the doari : the Set back Kollig cloased witl ie prisidint cuttin wood. I axet x how the presodint was taikin tei urk an he sais it is goin reethei ird wiff him. he sais that the prisi nt sais that enny man which sail lat he luvs ter wurk in a gardintii lyre an a man which sais the moai 8 wurks in wun the moar he luvi is ernuther lyre an a bigger wui ten ther furst i goes up an seat ter presidint miself at the emporun a i finds him not verrie kummuni ibal. he wood not say thet he wu i ther gardint bizness but i fine: lat he is a wood choparfrom wa; ack. he is now gittin up at fiv* rclock an cuttin two sticks of woo< _ i J. -i. ii x :i y Drecsiusu it a cam a uiav wn rhite started the woodchoppin oi reanvil streat and the wives on tha Teat whitch seed Will wurkin pu doun that the set-back Kollig mus loas its doar8 and the fackulti ike up woodchoppin. wun of ther worst things i heeri 1 yore toun tho wus from, dix sonl; >o. he tells me that wide bradli as taiken ter wurk. now ised te zzie when i got hoam sattidy nit lat this staitment almoast made m leeve that dix wus a lyre hissel io he stated it ter mee as a plnml ine-blank fack. now i know tha ie pussun whitch succeaded in git n wide ter work was sum hummei bets that he kin fine moar thing ;r tauk him down toun and thei ioar ter keap him doun toun whoi e gits thar than enny of the wooi aopars on greanyul streat. wil arnwell sed that he seed wide a ork in the gardint wiff a goes eck hoe and i sposes that dix tol letrewth. will sed it wus wun sit sr sea wide try ter hoe wiff his lei an backwards and he heddint bii oin but bout a minnit when he tol u in. u...i l:. a ix o? uiauuc uuui> uio miv muu oiaj a how ho kennot hold ter a ho lito e Useter on long cain. i seed widi >o an he sais tfier banks is needii tore zammernations in an diirin o le war then he. ever seed an h idnt expict to git back hoam fu igh on ter too or three weaks. prisidint kerr sed tho that thi hoal toun wood soon be doun a ork. he sed that greanvul strea id and that as soon as it was on iat the men on this leedin strea us chopin and hoing in ther gar ints that oholly brown and dr. nife: id dr. nickls an all the men on th< ither streats speshully main, woo< 3 bying axes and hoas an i woo< gar the soun of axes earlie in thi ornin clean out ter watts if i woe op milkin the cowb an lissen good i sed that all wer standin behin ter presodint. I gess it is so as ted Dr. Nickles wurkin as i cum a hoam wif his wife bossin him ii hat he was doin. well crops air pitched and th< tens air also but it doo seem to mi iat a leen gits by faster this yee lan i ever seed it. a man do no ive any chanct atawl with the h rices of vittals. i bleeve i wooi ive munny by gittin sum of m; rends in the cote hous eaven at thi kit Uttjr bu uuioc my iivm ouu ujr u< ish an let the leen go. ' i wisht yoi ood see dix and tell him i am 01 le grand juri^ and see what h links beat it tell him he kin le te kno when i cams ap next wea] > inspect his offis. hoapin that the war will soon b aver that there will be a full cro; f peeches an blackberries and tha ater mellons will git ripe earlie, m yourn as evar, Dote. nusepaiper coraspondint. LLIES TRUST AMERICA BEYOND NEED OF TREAT! Complete understanding of Ameri a's attitude in the war?unreserve ^operation in the fight of democrs y against the German military men ce without entangling political alii nces?was expressed Dy Foreig [inister Balfour, head of the Brit ih war commission, in a statemen ist week to newspaper correspor ents. "I am told/' said Mr. Balfoui that there are some doubting critic rho seem to think that the object o le missions of Great Britain an ranee is to inveigle the Unite tates out of its traditional polic nd to entanble it in a formal all; nee, secret or public, with Eurc ean powers. I can not imagine an; amor with less foundation, nor ca: imagine any policy so utterly ur ecessary. Our confidence in th Bsistance which we,are going to ge rom this community is not base pon such considerations as thos phich arise out of formal treaties." The foreign minister's statemen as officially said to have been mad 3 a result of hit conferences durin le past few days with Presiden /ilson and1 Secretary Lansing. I as generally regarded as disposini nally of suggestions in some quai :rs that the United States might b sked to sign a treaty not to mak separate peace. TViia Tiraa on avanffnl rlov fnr fVl ritish commissioners, marked by i earty welcome to France's illustri us war commission and the deliv ry to Ambassador Spring-Rice o merica%s first loan to the allies 200,000,000. Mr. Balfour lunched today witl ie Italian ambassador, spent part o: ie afternoon at the treasury de artment with Secretaiy McAdoi id was entertained at dinner at th< ritish embassy where a receptioi ^tended by the diplomatic corpj id high American omciaia xonowed The foreign minister received th< swspaper men during the day, a le residence where he is entertain i as the guest of the nation. r GRADUATING TIME 11 i Have you selected a ? . one who will graduat I Come in and look o^ Jewelry for the mosl /Mi niiMAl cut. 1UU Will SUICi J want in this great sto j W. E. JOHNSON, J ' Abbeville, S. < Myy u j frUlii ; w Protec * m Your Eari a W Having ready ( a sudden emergencies 3 H only when you have sa\ your salary or wages. I Start with a small < M necessary. Increase e can and Soon yc have a substantial [ est-bearing accoi and a feeling ? safety, contcn t meat, pride an J independence. I Safety?Honesty?Coui B | The Nation t j i Abbeville S e e r t i a I JobPiir B Departm I h| is literally smeaw^ir H piece of printing turne n modernly equipped pi: t often "sized up" by H head. People here i moir IrnAm wmi fvAm inajr nnv *v j vu x& viu we all look alike to tt d in Boston or some o I burg. THE \ I Press and 1 t Letter heads or e envelope*, high* /A E |H est quality print* B sand, and up. / ^ vJl Packed in neat e dust proof boxes i e H HH a t 5 NEAR 'm jift for the loved e in a few days? ;i jet my line of J ' \ 'V' m iui?s sash for m is possible H ed a part of deposit if Mj it as you B inter- J/W al Bank ?. c. : . 1 .............. ent. I I over every H > id out of this _ ~ int. You are n your letter B n Abbeville H A to Z but H te fellow up H ther distant H H i fessM j^K Wf U ^n| ' -V. :-V