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Abbeville Press and Banner] Established 1844 $1.50 the Year' ABBEVILLE, S. C., Wednesday, August 8,1917 Single Copies, Five Cents 76th Year- || CANTONMENTS WILL . I READY BY OCT. 1 Four Out of Five Men Are Expectci to Claim Exemption, Number is Larger in the Big Cities. > ? Washington, Aug. 5.?About fou out of five men are expected to ?Iain exemption from selective service i This announcement comes from Pro vost General Crawder's office. I much smaller per cent will be cx empted. "Small towns in country region are expected to show a larger percen tage of men willing to accept servic than big cities like New York,' 'sai< one of the high officials in charge o this matter. '|The foreign-born population o New York is opposed to compulsor; "" ' ' ? n-f +Viom hav milliany S'jrvice, man; Vi v..~? ing left their countries to avoid it We are not surprised at the numbe of claims for exemptions filed." The question whether to exempt i physically fit man is up to each loca x board. The board is required to cer tify the quota required from its dis trict, an,d if the board excuses th< first men who present themselves, the must refuse to excuse those wh< later present themselves. Somebod; must serve. Work of physical and otherwisi examining drafted men will probabl; continue for thirty days. Genera Crowder's office is hoping to have complete roster of 650,000 mei ready by the time the cantonment are ready. The cantonments art promised for September 1; as a mat ter of fact, they will not be ready fo; September 1. General Littell talk: hopefully and quite enthusiastically as to what has been accomplished u] to datek but has not promised tha the soldiered cities will be ready a the end of the next thirty days. "We have accomplished miracles said he, "but promising is risky. A lot depends on whether the last ship ment of lumber, water pipe or sewei ( pipe comes through. Delay in som< essential consignment might hold u] completion on any of these projects.' Probably most of the cantonment will have water systems in operatioi and be under roof by September 15 By October 1 they may have thei other fixings in place, including sonv * pavements. It is doubtful whethe the men called for selective servici will be actually put in these c;.mp before October, since Secretary Ba ker has repeatedly announced h< , would not crowd a lot of new re cruits into unfinished barracks. General Uorgas, as cmet 01 sani tary arrangements, must pass on an; army camp before it begins to hcusi men. If everything is complefcd t< make the camp sanitary, the mei n?ay tremble even if the final trim mings are not completed. But, i: necessary to wait until November the men are to be made comfortable and kept healthy. General Crowder will pnbabl; need the six weeks for getting hi ( men, just as much as General Littel will need this time to build his soldio cities. Local exemption board? ar working slowly. / When they havi finished, there is still a job to b done by the district exemption-board There are 162 of the latter, one fo eaen ieaerai juaiciai district. 1 /alls upon these boards, to pass oi all questions touching the exemptioi of men on the ground that they ar< needed for certain industries. JAMES MAGILL AT HOME FROM PHILIPPINE ISLAND: i * James Magill arrived in Abbevill last Friday from the Philippine Is lands after an absence of nearl; three years. James has held a gov ernment position and has be^n sta tioned most of the time in Luzon. H made the trip home in six weeks landing at Vancouver July 28th. James expects to enter the secon Training Camp at Fort Oglethorpe am aIpa wnf ii??ri 4-/* ? DIm'1iV?>?uam %?<*? \JL cioc iciuni w W1C ? I1U1 shortly. HERE FROM ORANGEBURG. Mrs. Pembroke Brunson and Mrs R. A. Fulp are expected in Abbevill on Wednesday to spend about tw weeks with Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Neul fer. It has been many years sine Mrs. Brunson was in Abbeville an friends and relatives are glad to se her again. FARMERS TO SEE WEEVIL IN ACTION i Citizens of Abbeville are invited and the business and professional men are especially urged to attend ia mass meeting in the court house J: Thursday afternoon at 6 o'clock at which time the proposition of send I - ing a delegation of representative farmers from this county to the boll r weevil districts of Georgia, will be 1 discussed. j County Agent John C. Barksdale i^ has just received a very interesting - letter from the Georgia Department | of Agriculture with regard to the s | boll weevil. The letter is printed in ^ full in the Farmers column on page j two. f The meeting Thursday afternoon will be brief and a good attendance fjis urged. , pj . -jGERMANY HAD ADVANCE ;. I COPY OF ULTIMATUM I rl . . . Austria's Action Against Serbia 1 Known to Germany Fourteen 1 Hours Ahead. Washington, Aug. 3.?Germany e had possession of Austria's ultima turn to Serbia 14 hours before it was 5 delivered at Belgrade, according to / positive information reaching officials here, and made public today for the 2 first time. H It is stated that that former For1 eign Minister Zimmerman admitted 1 this when he was pressed closely as 1 j to Germany's knowledge of the acsjtion of her ally which precipitated 2 the war. -J Germany has constantly maintained in all her public documents that 5 she was not consulted by Austria as f'to the ultimatum, and had no knowledge of such step would be taken. / t| .Zimmerman's admission, however, t is interpreted to show that Germany had full knowledge in time to stop ? action, if she felt it essential. 1 Zimmerman is reported to have first denied Germany's knowledge, c | but when presented with certain information and pressed admitted it. ?' He seemed to think 14 hours was not ''enough time for action. Si This fits in very closely with reijcent statements first advanced by Deputy Cohn in the Reichstag, and " since accepted by the allies, that 2 j Germany and Austrian leaders held ria war council at Potsdam on July 5, ~ j 1914 at which it was practically des[cided to plunge Europe into conflict. The interpretation placed on this e meeting has been that Germany had -: full knowledge of all Austria's plans I and stood unreservedly behind her. -1 Germany denied such a conference 7 was held. 2 I ? Dares Germany Prosecute. i Amsterdam. Auer. 3.?The Deutche -iTages Zeitung challenges Germany f j to prosecute Socialist Deputy Cohn ;for his alleged revelations concernel ing the Crown Council meeting beIfore the war when the Serbian ulti^matum was declared to have been s'decided upon. It says he will furnish I the fullest information. p SOLDIERS ON A VISIT, e e Lieut. G. A. Neuffer and Sergt. siW. D. Wilkinson came home on leave rjlast Saturday and gladdened the t! hearts of their home folks and n! friends by staying over till Tuesday, n I The boys are looking fine and talk e interestingly of their soldier life. FATHER BUDDS DEAD. Father .Tnsenh "Rndd. who died Sat g I r~ , urday in Charleston, was for many years the regular supply of the Catholic church here. He was well known | in Abbevile and many people hear with regiet of his death. ~ SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS ARE VERY PROMISING d Unless weather conditions are de>, cidedly unfavorable during the rest if of the growing season, South Carolina farmers, and incidentally everybody else in the state, will have cause for wholehearted rejoicing. Crop reports gathered from every section 3. of the state indicate that the crop e prospects for South Carolina were o never so bright as at present. > In Abbeville, and in fact, all over e the Piedmont section, crops are esd pecially promising, having been well e worked and are apparently above | the average at this season. COUNTY VOTE $300,0C The election passed off very! quietly in Abbeville county I yesterday, not a great many| persons taking the trouble to vote. In Abbeville where the people were intensely interested, or a few of them, in getting out all the votes possible for the bond issue, the vote was short of the real strength by at least two hundred. The vote at other boxes was # also light. ~ So far as reported not a single box outside of the city of Abbeville has voted in favor of the bond issue. The result at Due West, Donalds, Anirevine and Lowndesville shows that the people believed in the fight made by The Press and Banner against the proposed issue of bonds at the present time and under the present act. 1 The detailed vote so far as reported is as follows: Vote By Boxes. Yes No. ^Abbeville 174 95 | Cotton Mill 29 121 j Due West 20 64 I Donalds 22 48 i A nffnirlllfi 54 HO I Bryant 13 18 'Calhoun Falls 20 44 , Lowndesville 28 93 j Central 17 94 347 528 Total ?347 528 RECESS FOR CONGRESS BEGINS NEXT MONTH Washington, Aug. 6.?Leaders are working for a congressional recess in September of at least six weeks. The House is to take a series of three day recesses until the Senate clears its work. The attack on the food| control bill by Senator Reed of Mis-1 souri, has been continued. The revised war bill carrying big increases' i Vine heen r^nnrtpH to the Senate. I j$500 Raised By Women foi Carnival W i The carnival given last Thursday! under the auspices of the Womansj {National league lor oavitc ??v???, of the most successful entertainments ever given in Abbeville and netted the League a clear profit of | five hundred and twenty-five dollars. This money will go towards the comfort and pleasure of the young men enlisted for the war, which worthy purpose gave the carnival the friendship of every one. The management of the carnival was under the supervision of Mrs. JH. Waddell Pratt and a corps: of excellent assistants and to them must be attributed the success of the enterprise. Every country allied with America in the prosecution of the great war, was represented in the parade, and in the booths around the square. The parade was led by Mr. R. H. Kay, dressed as "Uncle Sam" and Mrs. Joe Wilson as "Miss Columbia." 4 41 J J Alter inem came tne aairn-y maiuens of all countries in fanciful costumes, j There were dainty maids from Eng11 land, pretty girls from Ireland, Highland laddies from Scotland, priests, i nuns, peasants and gypsies from Italy. "Miss France," represented handsomely by Mrs. Henry Gilliam, led a bevy of market'girls from Sunny France, peasants from Russia I looked as though they were well fed, : Roumanians, American Indians, boy scouts, sailors, Greeks, Philippinos DEFEATS . 10 BOND ISSUE |r ?_? PETROGRAD GOVERNOR SLAIN.|? I Petrograd, Aug. 3.?General Er-j delli, military governor of Petrograd, Ic says the Bourse Gazette, has been killed. He was treacherously shot in the back. RETREAT GENERAL IS . 0 ORDERED EXECUTED a f London, Aug. 6.?General Maev- ? isky, commander of the guard corps 0 which headed the Russian retreat, has been ordered shot after court- c martial ordered for non-compliance * wit'i instructions to shoot deserters, a according to a news dispatch from * Petrograd. IN NEW YORK. Mr. W. E. Johnson and Mr. Lewis \ Perrin are' leaving tonie-ht for New York City, where they will be away for a week on business. THE WEATHER FORECAST c FOR THE CURRENT WEEK c I ' ( Temperature in the South Atlan- j tic and East Gu.lf states will average } near or somewhat above the normal, with occasional thundersihowers, dur- y ing the coming week, was the wea- ^ ther bureau forecast in Washington Sunday. PARISIANS ARE SAVING MONEY ? Paris, Aug. 6.?Savings bank deposits continue to exceed the withdrawals. Balances to the credit of j depositors have increased more than ( seventy million francs since the first ( of the year. FRENCH BREAK* IN THE GERMAN LINES IN CHAMPAGNE DISTRICT j Paris, Aug. 7.?French troops last | night broke into the German lines at three places in tiie Champagne, in flicting heavy losses on the Teutons T and brought back prisoners, the War ( Office announced today. The attack ( of the Teutons between Avocourt Wood and Hill No. 304 was driven off with heavy German losses. Germans Atti.ck Rumanians. | Berlin, Aug. 7.?Austro-German t forces began yesterday an offensive against the Ruso-Rumanians on the ? Rumanian front storming positions ( north of Folshami, it is officially an- ( nounced. Thirteen hundred prison- ( ers, 14 guns and trench motors were ( captured. ? Abbeville I ' Red Cross. , as Great Success; t ' j and Japs, all went to make up a gay and an attractive sceire. There was something to sell in j every booth and much money was ( made in this way. A good .supper r was served on th > grounds and those j who could not be pleased with salads, g enjoyed the hash, while the little j boys kept up a steady run on the j Italian booth whore the pope was selling "hot dogs ' and rolls as fast ] as they could be handed out. On +Viq V>icr efat.o noar <Vi<? rlrinlrincr \su WIIW wvw?.v "v fountain a continuous performance of vaudeville shows was in progress. Of especial merit was the pantomime given by the young people from Due j West. This pantomime was under the direction of Miss Gladys Wilson, and was taken part in by fourteen | pretty girls and Mr. Robert Ellis, who dreamed of all the fair women and finally took a? his Stride the Red Cross girl, who was represented by Miss Barbara Grier. v Sharon had fourteen or fifteen * pretty girls in the parade who made j much money afterwards selling good things to eat. Antreville was repre- j sented both in the parade and in a f both, while Calhoun Falls was on r VianH witVi nno nf frVip most: nth-aftivo booths in the show. r The Calhoun Falls band tendered c their services free to the management c and their sweet music added the final pleasure to a successful and pleasant t day. t JEGIN EXAMINATIONS ( ' OF REGISTERED MEN Examination of the registered men n Abbeville county begun in the iffice of Clerk J. L. Perrin. early this norning, 50 registrants having been ummoned to appear before the couny board for physical examination oday, and 50 each day from now on intil the quota of 172 for the first all has been selected. Indications are that about 75 per ent. of the registrants will claim xemptions for one cause or another. Ujout 40 per cent, will be exempt >n the grounds of physical disability ind it is believed that at least 60 >er cent, will claim exemption on grounds of dependents or industrial iccupation^. All claims of exemption on account of industrial occupations will >e passed upon by the district board, md without recommendation of the ocal board, it is understood. NCREASE NUMBER TO OFFICERS CAMPS / ? (Var Liepartment Authorize* an increase of 30 Per Cent in Number of Men for Second Camp*. Washington, Aug. 3.?An increase if _0 per cent in the present number andidates admitted to the Second Dfficers Training Camp, to open on August 27, has beep ordered by the Na.r department. Seven thousand candidates were to lave been admitted. The new number nil be 20,000. PROCLAMATION BY KAISER Jays as Foes Multiply Germany's Strength Increases. Berlin, Aug. 2.?Emperor William las issued a proclamation to the jerman army, and navy and German Holonial forces, it reads: * 7 \ "The third year of the war has :ome to an ena. ine numDer 01 our idversaries has increased, but their jrospects of. victory have not im>roved. You crushed Rumania last rear. The Russians empire once nore trembles under our strokes. "Both countries sacrificed themselves for the interests of others and low.are bleeding to death. In Ma:edonia you forcibly withstood the ;nemy's assaults. In mighty battles >n the western front you remain the nasters of the situation. Your lines tre firm, protecting your beloved lome against the terrors and devas;ations of war. "The navy has achieved good remits. It has threatened the enemies :ommand of the sea and his ver$ existence. Far from home a little jJerman group is defending a German :olony against forces many times superior. '| Victory in the coming year, will >?oin Via rtn nnr aielo nnH rm Mint. of ? ? )ur allies. Ours will be the final victory. ['With a deeply moved heart 1 ;hank you in my own name in th#1 )f the fatherland for what you have achieved in this last year of the var. With veneration we remember ;he fallen who gave up their lives :or the greatness and the safety of ;he Fatherland. ' "The war goes on, it is still being 'orced upon us, wevshall fight for our ixistence in the future with firm 'esolution and unfailing courage. As >roblems multiply, so does our itrength increase. We are invinci-1 nr_ ?i.?n TVo Jie. rvc ?iian uc vitiA/iivuoi amv ^ord God will be with us. "William I. R., in the Field August ROOT COMMISSION BACK. A Pacific Port, Aug. 3.?The Amirican mission to Russia, headed by Slihu Root, reached here tonight nroute to Washington. 1URRISS ACQUITTED; WAS NOT OF AGE The case of John Burriss, a young rhite man of Calhoun Falls, was disnissed after a preliminary trial beore U. S. Commissioner C. E. Wiliamson Monday morning. Burriss was arrested last week by darshal C. J. Bruce, charged with ailure to register on June 5 and was eleased on bond of $300. At the preliminary Monday Buriss proved that he was not 21 years Id on June 5, but had become 21 ?n July 2. Several other "slacker" cases in he county are under federal invesigation, it is reported. RED CROSS DIVIDES 1 TFRRimWIMII I tal II 11 I VI I I B VI I I I VI II 1 Country to Haye Thirteen Divi*ion% Each With Its Own Head. Now Organizing Washington, Aug. 5.?War activi ties of the reorganized Red Cross have become so vast plans are under . vg way to cut the United States rat? (-M thirteen divisions, each to have ' if head who will be for that division h4 what P. Davison is for the national organization. These divisional diree- :.'b ! tr?rs -will have fnll Tiower in their 'section, subject to general order* from national headquarters here. '^*3? The divisions have not been definitely made. However, it is pretty.ffffiM well settled that Masachusetts will W' $f|M the chief state in one division. New j^^g,'! York in another, Ohio in another, Iowa in another, Texas in another yJH and California in another, i;. v.', The divisional cities cannot be determined upon until division directors have been named and have ae-vA#l3|j cepted. For instance, for the Ohio ^ division, if a Clevelander is named,'-/, Cleveland will be the headquarter* iur l/Iiai/ uiviaiuii. ll a miiCiiwnwiw is named, Cincinnati will be division / 7^g headquarters. Most of the work in each division, _>J now conducted through national headquarters, will be conducted . -i||a through the division once the niachin- ffl ery is started. It is expected there will be great saving in time and. ^ money. , For instance, if a Red Cross chap- 'fw ter in El Paso, Tex., wanted to know. '^jjs about a certain matter, instead of writing to Washington and waiting . J until the query was answered by mail the letter would go to Houston, Tex^ , if that were divisional headquarters. ^ There would be a saving of several . ? lie same thing applies to cost ' '.'M ' Charters now write to national head > ' r*m quarters for literature, etc. These < have to be shipped from here in lots to the various towns and village* I Under the rearrangement, there will be a uppot in each divisional city .to 1 which the various things will be ship- --'tiM i p?d in bulk. Materials will thcrt , be v:i-;:M ! -sent from these divisional cities tfl? i the v'lisges and towns in that ciivfc; The plan is to clear these depots i'M every thirty'days, to keep things moving rapidly to the seacoast leses \\sj ? r,o be >aded on ships for France ' !n the same way, when the next/- V: -^ ! campaign for funds is launched, each ' divisional director will have sole :y.:M i charge in his states. [ SOUTHERN SPENDING BIG MONEY IN THE SOUTH | Washington, D. C., Augusut 4.? - % ; The Southern Railway Company paid ;:$a ; out in the South $1.17 for every dot s lar paid to the Southern by the peo: pie in the South during June, 1917, according to figures announced toi day by Comptroller A. H. Plant. ? During the month the Southern i company disbursed for labor, materlial, supplies and other purposes, $7,1361,282, of which $5,850,537, or 179.48 per cent, was paid to individu- ' ^ als and industries located in the South, this sum being $849,960 in ' '.:i excess of the total moneys contribut; ed by the South for transportation purposes. For improvements to its roadway 3 and structures, the Southern spent $1,641,882.99 in June, 1917, as against $713,383.33 during June, 1916! during the twelve months end!ed June 30th, $15,879,707.53 as 'against $8,556,432.08 in 1916. j Results of operation, exclusive of interest, rentals and other income 'charges, were as follows: Gross revenue, June, 1917, $7,143,682, an increase as compared with 1916, of $1,378,911, or 23.92 jper cent; operating expenses, taxes and uncollectible railway revenues, .$,093,202, an increase as compared with 1916, of $956,000, or 23. 10 per cent. ^ 'V ^ HERE FOR THE CARNIVAL. Chief among the visitors from Due West for the Carnival last Thars-luy was Mr. R. S. Galloway, who looked on with pleasure at the efforts of the oeoDle to eive a first class show. Tic was particularly interested in the Highland fling and ether fancy dances, saying that one could not see such in Due West. '*2 M