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DEATH OF MR. S
E. H. NICKLES
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' At His Home Near Hodges on h ri-.1
day, Sept. 14th, After a Short
Illness.
Mr. Edward H. Nickles of thel
Long Cane section of the county,'*
died at his home on last Friday, jl
September 14th, in the 67th year of 1
his age after a short illness. t
Mr. Nickles was a life-long resi- ]
dent of Abbeville County, a prosper- i
ous farmer and a good man. No
man was a better neighbor and no ]
man can be more generally missed
in his neighborhood than will be the <
dec eased. | <
Jn eany aie mr. lxitmcj
? riei Miss McCord, a sister of Messrs. '
Frank and Thomas McCord of this 1
, county. Mrs. Nickles survives him, (
as do the following children:
W. F. Nickles, cashier of the Peo- '
pies Bank of Abbeville, Henry Nick- '
les of Laurens, Thomas N. Nickles
of Hodges, and Mrs. E. R. Miller,
Mrs. William Hannah, R. 0. Nickles,
Charles Nickles and Lucian Nickles
of Hodges, David Nickles of Abbe- '
ville and Misses Lila and Belle Nickles,
also of Hodges. The deceased
is also survived by his brothers:
Capt. G. N. Nickles o:* Due West,
William A. Nickles and R. J. Nickles '
of Hodges. 1
Mr. Nickles was a member of the '
Hodges Presbyterian church, having 1
moved his membership there from '
old Greenville Church, near Donalds (
1
several years ago. The funeral ser- 1
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vices were held on Saturday ati
eleven o'clock, conducted by his pas- :
tor, Rev. Mr. Coman, after which
the burial took place at the Hodges J
cemetery. J
The sympathy of the friends and {
relatives of Mr. Nickles in and '
abort Abbeville is extended to the '
members of the family, and especi- (
ally to Messrs. W. F. Nickles and
David Nickles, residents of the city.
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JURY CLEARS JONES. i|
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Slayer of Ben. W. Stevens Acquitted
in Laurens. ,
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k Laurens, Sept. 13.?In the court
of general sessions John Jones, a! ]
young white farmer of Cr6ss Hill, I j
was yesterday found not guilty of the ;
charge of murder in the killing last' 1
December of Ben. W. Stevens of 11
Newberry county. I <
This was the second trial of the ]
vase, the first having resulted in a
mistrial at the spring term of the (
criminal court. Self defense was the
plea of the young defendant. The
' shooting occurred at the store of a
Cross Hill merchant and was witnessed
by two or three customers. 1
There had been trouble between ah
son of Mr. Stevens and the defend-;]
ant, it was said. The elder Stevens;1
; topk up the alleged differences, and;!
coming in contact with Jones a^ the/'
store of Mr. Spearman he is saidi
to have asked Jones if he was armed.]]
Receiving a negative answer, Stevens i
it was testified, was turning away1,
from Jones when the latter walkedaround
a peanut parcher, with his;'
pistol in hand, and opened fire on!"
Stevens, inflicting a mortal wound!
from which Stevens died 24 hours
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later at a iiusjjitai. ovuca viauicu
that threats had been made against 1
his life by Stevens and his son. When1,
Stevens entered the store, he is al'leged
to ha\e bitterly assailed Jones,
' using language of the vilest charac-1
~ ter. Jones says he was afraid of j
Stevens and knew he had very little 1
showing before him that day, after
he had approached him. Hence his j
statement that he (Jones) was not1
. armed. . 1
The trial of the case continue !
over a day and was hard fought by '
both sides.
ABBEVILLE REPRESENTATIVES
AT WINTHROP COLLEGE
Miss Mary Grace Wilson and Miss i
Avis Henry left Saturday for Winthrop
College, where they have entered
upon their first year's college
, work. Misses Ruth Calvert, Rebecca
Jones, Marion Cason and Kate Haskell
left Tuesday morning to resume
their school work for another term.
All of these young ladies except j
* Miss Kate Haskell, are seniors this
year and will graduate next June.
SHIPS HEAR
, S. 0. S. CALL
Vessel Close to Nantucket Lightship
is Reported to Have Btfen
Shell*!.
An Atlantic Port, Sept. 15.?Evidence
that an enemy submarine has
t>egun depredations in American waters
was brought here today by two
-j. 1--? mnrnino
steaiiisinjpa, wmvu "w? .....Q
picked up wireless "S. 0. S." calls
indicating that a ship was being
shelled by a u-boat in the vicinity of
Nantucket Lightship.
One ship receiving the distress
;alls was a British freighter and the
Dther an American tanker. Both reported
the scene of the attack as
about 60 miles east of Nantucket
and the time about 8 o'clock yesterday
morning. The identity of the
submarine's victim was not learned
by either vessel, as far as is publicly
known.
INSURANCE BILL TO
BE RUSHED THROUGH
/
President Urges Quick Action by the
Senate and Leaders Plan to
Hasten Enactment.
Washington, Sept. 15.?Plans to
expediate passage by the senate of
the soldiers and sailors' insurance
bill were completed today after Senator
Martin, Democratic leader,- received
a communication from President
Wilson urging its enactment
before adjournment.
Arrangements also were made to
5need nn the final vote on the bill,
leaders determining to resort to cloture
if necessary. It was believed,
however, that unanimous consenl
iould be obtained for brief senate
iiscussion and a final vote early in
October.
UNITED STATES SUBMARINE
GOES DOWN AT MOORINGS
Washington, Sept. 15.?A United
States submarine sank at her dock
at an Atlantic port yesterday morning,
the navy department announced
tonight, but there was no loss of life.
Hie cause has not yet been determined.
The announcement said it was expected
that the submersible would
be raised within a few days, when
i full report of the accident would
ae made to the department. For
military reasons the name of the
submarine and the port were withheld.
GERMAN EDITOR TERMS
WILSON MOST HONEST
OF "PRESENT ENEMIES"
Amsterdam, Sept. 13.?Amid the
torrents of personal abuse of President
Wilson in the German newspapers,
the moderatoin of the Zeitung
af Hildesheim province^of Hanover,
stands out strikingly. The Zeitung
says:
"The German people should not
permit themselves to be goaded into
a blind and anti-Wilsonian rage,
which is as unjustified as it is, senseless.
After all, President Wilson deserves
to be termed as the most honest
of all our present enemies."
The Deutsche Tages Zeitung of
Berlin, prints the above excerpt
merely for the purpose ot pouring
out upon it vials of editorial wrath.
TIE UP OF TRAFFIC ON
SEABOARD THREATENED
Hamlet, N. C., Sept. 16.?An immediate
and serious tie-up of freight
traffic here, the largest transfer
point on the Seaboard Air Line system,
is threatened by the strike of
clerks, which was extended +oday to
include all those employed ,,ere except
those in the office of Lie divis
ion superintendent.
It was announced tonight that a
representative of the clerks' union
will meet with the officials of the
Seaboard at Portsmouth, Va., Monday
to confer on the demands of the
clerks for additional pay.
OFF TO TEACH.
Miss Mary Lou Bowie and Miss
? ? 1-/1. Ci-i 3 -T~,
Ulara JLOU Aaams ieit oaiuruay iui
Seneca, where they will teach in the
Seneca graded school. They were
graduated from Winthrop last June
and are bright, capable young ladies
and will make splendid teachers
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REBEL LEADER TAKEN
WITH HIS CHIEF AIDE
'? nr? l r? r
i rnioners i urueu v/?m iu wvuiu>?
sion of Inquiry to Fix Funish
ment
Kerensky Receives News.
; Petrograd, Sept. 15.?Genera
, Korniloff, leader of the recent re
i bellion against the provisional gov
> ernment, and General Lokomsky, th<
; commander of the Northerr front
- who refused to take command o
' the Russian armies after Komilof
was deposed, have been arrested.
i The members of the commissioi
j of inquiry are due at Mohiley a
. midnight and the arrested person
t will be given into their hands. Sue!
; other officers as the commission se
. lects also will be arrested.
> News of the arrest of Genera
[ Korniloff was first conveyed in i
telegram received by Premier Keren
sky from General Alexieff, the chie
of staff. So far only the followini
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details nave ueeu ictcivcu.
[i "At 10 o'clock last night, Genera
Korniloff' and Generals 'Lokomsk;
i and Romanovsky and Colonel Pleust
chevsky-Pliuskhen were arrested."
GERMAN GENERAL PUTS PRICE
, ON HEAD OF FIRST AMERICAN
BROUGHT IN DEAD OR LIVINC
British Headquarters in Franc
" and Belgium, Sept. 15 (By the Asso
' ciated Press.)?German military au
' thorities on the Western front hav
shown concern about the imminenc
1 of the American army's entry int
1 the fighting by offering rewards fo
' the production of the first America]
1 prisoner. The general commandinj
' the Eleventh Reserve Division re
1 cently put the price of 400 marks oi
1 the first American soldier brough
dead or alive into his lines.
This information has been dis
closed by the diary of a Prussia)
sergeant of. the Twenty-third Re
serve Regiment. He wrote at th<
. end of July:
"We are supposed to have Ameri
cans opposite us for some time no's
and two divisions of Portuguese oi
our right. The man who brings ii
the first, American dead or alive ti
. headquarters has been promised th
Iron Cross of the First Class and 40<
; marks and 14 days leave from th<
division."
The diary, which covers a perio<
, of nearly two months, desribes ii
. detail the destruction of an import
ant industrial town by the Uerman
and its transformation by a Germai
army command into a great mass o
(fortified ruins. Batteries have beei
' planted in the cellars of privafc
houses, factories and public build
> ings, which have been partly demol
. ished to give a better field for th<
fire, while the streets and square
and even the city cemetery have beei
, torn up and enmeshed with wire t
provide positions for groups of ma
chine guns.
; The diary describes how the troop
i quartered in the city spent thei
, time when not on duty, in firing ma
. chine guns from the barricaded win
. dows and the roofs of buildings lef
standing and in searching for hiddei
treasure and in' digging among th
: ruins for silverware.
; The sergeant tells how his friend
found gold watches and priceles
, paintings in the museums, statuar;
and others works of art which the;
are hoarding in tneir dugouts, xm
'German authorities have remove*
'the bulk of the municipal and eccle
:siastical valuables to Germany bu
: | many of the inhabitants who wen
' evicted from their homes when th<
city was cleared before its destruc
;tion had no opportunity to removi
'I their private possessions and trie*
;to hide them. The German soldiers
it seems, were eager to serve at St
IQuentin because of the chance fo:
i "treasure hunts" there.
i The diary does not indicate an;
' TYinrl'A/^ of inn rvf f V? O fiprmfll
i morale, but emphasizes the discom
J j fort of the conditions of life in th?
field and the terribly accuracy o
the French gunners, who give th
j Germans no rest.
On the Flanders front during th
> i past few days the only activitie
1 have been slight outpost engage
! ments.
s Miss Clara Wham is in the Col
umbia hospital and has been sine
. last Thursday for treatment.
i troop train
: is wed urn
. Four Soldiers Being Shot?Identit
of Troops and Destination Was
Withheld.
Steubenville, Ohio, Sept. 15.?.
1 troop train on the Pennsylvani
- Railroad was fired on last night nes
- Mingo Junction, Ohio, according 1
b repoi-ts here. Four soldiers are sai
to have been wounded, one seriou
f ly. The injured soldiers remaine
F on the train.
Information as to the identity <
i the troops or the destination of tl:
t train was withheld by railroad ofl
s cials because of military regulation
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_ STRENGTH OF NAVY
HAS BEEN TREBLE
1
a Three Times aa Many Ships an Si
Months Ago?Ensigns of Naval
f Reserve Graduated.
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Annapolis, Md., Sept. 15.?The r
tl markable development of the navy:
y the last year was described by Se
> retary Daniels in an address at tl
naval academy today to the gradua
ing ensigns of the naval reserve. E
credited President Wilson with gi
flta i' i4-i r* 1 imnafiio fV?o rvi Atr.
Ulg tllC 1111 wax llilJL/^tUO I. V/ biig iilv '
j ment that has resulted in a gre!
expansion of the service.
The graduates," 174 in number, ai
e members of the corps of reserve n:
~ val officers who have ju3t complete
a three months' intensive course <
e instruction to fit'them for dul
e aboard ship or on shore.
0 "The impulse that has made poss
r ble our rapidly expanding navy," d
a clared Mr. Daniels, "came from
^ I speech made by President Wilson i
St. Louis on the third day of Fel
1 ruary, 1916, when he declare
t 'There is no other navy in the wori
that has to cover so great an are
T of defense as the American nav;
1 and it ought, in my judgrment, to t
incomparably the moat adequal
e navy in the world.'
"I am not publishing a militai
" secret when I say that while the ii
v crease in personnel in the past fe
1 months has far surpassed the ii
1 crease in material, there are thr<
D times as many ships in commissic
e|i;oday as Inhere were six months ag
? and that ships and more ships fro:
e enlarged and ever enlarging shi]
yards are coming to afford a place c
^ naval craft to the thousands Of pi
a triotic young men who have crowdt
r into the navy since the call."
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n THE OPENING OF SCHOOL.
f
ft The Graded and ' High Schools' i
e Abbeville opened Monday mornui
- with the prospects of a bright ar
-1 prosperous year. The enrollment i
s j the two schools was four hundrc
si and thirty, and at the Mill scho<
1J seventy-seven.
Prof. Riser has been in the cil
-Ifor sometime and had made arrange
Impnfs fr?r a snrcpssfiil nnpninc. TV
s children were assigned their room
r given their lessons and allowed 1
- go home at ten o'clock.
Mrs. Riser is supplying the secon
t grade until a teacher can be securei
1 The resignation of Miss Bess Alle
e make? this necessary.
The patrons of the^ school wis
s the teachers success and the hope
s that there will be a unity of pu:
^ pose between the parents and teacl
^ ers which will make the school <
? the most successful in the state.
DEATH OF MISS
t VIRGINIA LOMA
e
e Miss Virginia Lomax died suddei
" ly Monday at the home of her siste
e,Mrs. Harmon, in Newberry, and th
^ J-inrNr wna hrrmtrVit t.n Tiff)
'' day afternoon and buried at Eben<
" zer church on Tuesday.
r
Miss Lo:max was the daughter c
J. E. Lomax and a sister of Victc
and John Lomax and has a host c
1
relatives throughout our county.
e Sincere sympathy is felt for th
f family at the untimely death of th
e young woman.
e VISITING THE CAMP SUNDAY.
s
Among those spending Sunday i
Greenville were: Mr. and Mrs. Lew
Perrin and children, Mr. and Mr
- R. L. Mabry and family, Mr. an
e Mrs. W. D. Wilson, Miss Catherir
Link and Leonard Whitlock.
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DONALD CALVERT
I FOUND DEAD
y Tragic Death of Donald, Youngest
Son of Mr. and Mra. W. A.
Calvert.
A Abbeville has had iviany sad and
shocking deaths but none which has
made our town so sorrowful as the
tr .death of Donald Hill Calvert; last
'd Saturday. The little boy was found
^bout half past nine o'clock smothered
to death in some cotton which was
in an out house on the place. Don2
aid was accustomed to spending
much of his time with his sister, Mrs.
j." Jordan Ramey,.who lives near and
no attention was paid to . his being
away from home. When Mr, Calvert
came home from his business he inquired
for the little boy and search
was begun for him which resulted
ix in finding him in the cotton. In his
play Donald had evidently been digging
holes in the cotton and must
have lost his balance and become
e_ buried in the cotton.; Every effort
^ was made to revive the boy but the
doctors agree that he had been dead
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xur several nuurs.
Funeral services were held at the
[e home at four o'clock Sabbath afterv_
noon and were conducted by Rev.
e_ F. W. Gregg, one time pastor of
the family, and Rev. H. D. Corbett,
pastor of Upper Long Cane. The
re body was borne from the house by
his cousins, Albert and Alpheus Les!(j
lie, and by Andrew Hill and Webber
Wilson, and the interment was in
iy the family plot at Long Cane cemetery.
;j_ The grief stricken parents had the
e consolation of having all their chila
dren with them. Mrs. Arthur Ellis
jn being here from New Orleans on a
visit and John Calvert being here on
j a short leave of absence from Camp
U Sevier,, while the two daughters,
}a Misses Rath and Gertrude are leaving
this week for college.
)e' Donald was an unusually bright
e and attractive boy. He was ejght
years old and had the gentle bright.y
ness which endeared him to both old
and young. His untimely and tragic
w death causes genuine' sorrow
a_ throughout our town and sincere
,e sympathy is felt for the disconsolate
,n family.
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m DEATH OF MR. MOSS.
P
^ Mr. J. R. Moss died at his home
T?oiio c n
^ in vaiauuu r aiio, kj. kjcptcuiuci
12, 1917. Mr. Moss was a resident
of this city several years before removing
to Calhoun Falls.
He is survived by his wife and
^ the following children: Miss Addie
(g Moss and Mrs. C. M. Ayers of Cal1(j
houn Falls; R. B. Moss of Abbeville;
it L. J. Moss of Greenwood; R. D. Moss
of Greenville; Olin Moss of North
01 Carolina; 0. P. Moss and Mrs. J. P.
Hopkins of this city.?The Anderson
y Daily Mail.
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le LEAVING FOR CAMP JACKSON
to '
"? The second increment of drafted
men of Abbeville county called into
' service on the 19thf will leave here
' this morning, at 9:55 over the Southn!ern,
for Camp Jackson. The following
young men have been selected
'h'and are ordered to report at the of
1S fice of the Local Board promptly at
r" eight o'clock this morning.
Oliver Ragsdale, H. Bee Bowen,
^ Henry W. Hinton, Claud C. Abbott,
Charlie Williams, Robert H. Martin,
Berry J. J. Jordan, Z. A. Brown, William
Nance, Jesse P. Rutledge, Henry
XjG. Finley, B. W. Meggins, F. W. Allen,
Palmer C. Anderson, Jas. Thos.
1_ Dickson, J. B. Cochran, Hubert Mcr?
Ilwain, Joseph Ferguson, W. R.
Ie | Nance, C. F. Wilson, Ebb Christian,
n:Jas. A. Gresham, Alonzo Reed
J"jPresher, W. J. McCord, Chas. Leej
i McCain, W. J. Brownlee, Benj. Wade I
>fj Williams, Jas. C. McAllister, Joej
>rjEarl Lewis, Alvin Hardin, J. B. Mc>f
i Cord, Raymond C. Price, Eugene D.'
Woodward, Jas. L. Baskin, T. B.
ie Osborne, Walter Forrest Clary, Jas.
is Reese Hall, Eddie B. Nickles, R. E.
Agnew.
We are dedicating our young manhood
to this noble cause and are
wishing them success and a safe ren
turn when the fight is won by going t
is' to the station this morning to say|
sJJ'good-bye," thereby evidencing thatj
d we homefolks will sustain them with
l
le our solicitude, love and material resources
to the end.
HONS WAS I
BLOWN 10 SHREDS 1
. 'M
First Officer to Fall Never Knew
What Hit Him?Many Others tI
Hurt.
Washington, Sept. 15.?The first
complete detailed account of the
German air attack on American base
hospital No. 5 in France on the
night of Tuesday, September 4, has
reached this country in a report from . \"i
Maj. Gen. M. P. Murphy, head of
the Red Cross commission in France.
It ,was in this attack that Lieat.
William T. Fitzsionmons of Kansas
City, the first American officer to
give his life in the war, was killed; ,
three other officers, six privates, a ->\
woman nurse and 22 patients from ^
the British lines were wounded. An
American Red Cross inspector returning
to Paris from the scene told .
the story as follows:
"The airplane attack occurred at / $
1 1 nVlnclf af nifflif .Tiici- q+ tlrnt
time fortunately no convoy of *
wounded was being received or. the
list of casualties would have been
far greater as one of the bombs fell
into the center of the large recep- '
tion tent to1 which the wounded are 3
first borne for examination. Ten %
seconds sufficed for the dropping of
the bombs from the fast flying plane ,
and within less than a mintage after-. /V
wards the surgeons of the hospital
were at the task of collecting and
attending those who had been struck
dowrt. And for 24 hours they were ? >
at work in the operating room, one
surgeon relieving another when the * ,
latter from simple exhaustion could < rj
woijjc no longer. And the very next
day, just as if npthing had happened,
these same surgeons were called up- x ''f|
on to " receive and care fbr 200 'O
i * 1
wounded sent in from the trenches
of the British expeditionary force.
The hospital, which is on the French
coast, has 1,800 beds under canvas
in a quadrangle 800 feet square, is
in a district where there are many - "ji
similar institutions and is unmistak- ' J
able as a hospital. At the same ,. .
time the German aviator flew over it
most of the surgical staff was engaged
in making rounds of the ward.
Lieutenant Ifitzsimmons,1 however,
was standing at the door flap of his
tent.
Had Little Warning.
"mere had been a brief warning
of the presence of a bombing airplane
in the neighborhood, because
a quarter of a minute before the .
sound of exploding bombs was heard
from a point perhaps 200 yards from
the hospital. This warning sufficed
to cause all lights in the tents to be
extinguished immediately and those
who had been under fire before ' s
fllTPW fliomofllvoo forta
? WW. wo WWfU Ui/Ull
the ground. Then came five explosions
in rapid succession in the hospital
itself. The first two were directly
in front of Lieutenant Fitzsimmons'
tent He probably never
knew what happened to him, as his
body was torn to shredsx The next
two fell a hundred feet beyond in ;
a five marquee ward in which there '?i
were many patients, and the' last
struck the reception.tent. Overhead
there was no sound. The German
aviator flew too high to be
heard but he left his identity behind
him not only in the bombs he
dropped, but in the derisive handful
of pfennings he scattered upon the
hosnitfll AS VlP wVlirloH awvxr A num.
ber of these were found when light
came. Lieutenant McGuire, who
was in a tent adjoining that of
Lieutenant Fitzsimmons, was struck
by three bomb fragments, but was
not seriously wounded. His escape
was narrow as there were more than
a hundred holes cut in his tent
Lieutenant Smith was struck in the
knee and Lieutenant Whidden in the
chest, while in their tents in the
officers' section of the quadrangle.
The private soldiers injured were
on duty as orderlies in the reception
tent and the hnmh fpll almnst nnon
them. So severely was Private Aubrey
S. McLeod injured that it was
necessary to amputate both his legs
that night. Although the exploding
bombs created horror in the hospital,
there was not the smallest sign of
panic and the work of discovering
the wounded and collecting them
was immediately begun. This was
made cruelly difficult by the dark?
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