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AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THE PRESS AND BANNER IS AN INVESTMENT?NOT A SPECULATION ^ Abbeville Press and Bannerf Established 1344. $1.50 the Year ABBEVILLE, S. C., Wednesday, September 26, 1917. Single Copies, Five Cents. 76th Year ' M I. W. W'S. PLANNED ! ' BIG REVOLUTION i TO CONSCRIPT MEN. / 48 Organizations Planned to J Apply Torch to Small Cities and of Rob Banks. Enid, Okla., Sept. 24.?A revolution of 2,000,000 malcontents, nation c wide in scope, backed by the Indus- * d trial Workers of the World, and 48 j, affiliated organizations including- the 1, c Working Class Union, in which it I was planned to apply the torch to s small cities, shoot officers of the gov- v ernment and demoralize communication, was planned for July 27 last, \ according to the testimony today of J Will Hoover, State witness in the v trial of 11 alleged anti-draft agita- r tors from Central Oklahoma. p "The Industrial Workers ot the li World were to launch the uprising," i' Hoover said. ^ "Rube Munson," alleged State or- s ganizer of the Working Class Union, ^ told a meeting of the Friendship ^ localin an open corn field near Sa- 0 sakwa, that at a prearranged time, the Working Class Union was to cap- * ture small towns, take charge of the 1 banks, burn bridges and cut telegraph wires, while the I. W. W. !* cared for the larger cities in a like e manner. B f President Wilson and Gov. Wil- , liams of Oklahoma, Hoover said * Munson declared, would have such a ^ large force of soldiers for personal protection and on the Mexican bor- ^ der that none would be available to ^ send against the rebels. Members were told by H C. Spence State secretary of the Working Class , Union, that two carloads of rifles would be available when needed and v that the union had as much right to j conscript recruits for a revolution j, as the government'naa to arait men ^ for the trenches in France. At a .. meeting early in July appropriations j were made for the purchase of 100 pounds of dynamite, Hoover de- ^ clared. 1 I Seattle, Wash., Sept. 24.?J. E. i Wiggins, alleged head of the Working Class Union, an anti-draft organization that caused much trouble in Oklahoma, and who is in jail here, is charged with a series of crimcs in dispatches received by federal 1 officials today. It is charged he dy- ^ namited the water and sewer mains ' at Her.ryctta, Ckla., and later set * fir & to r. school house near Henry- 1 etta and that he armed negroes and 1 others r.ec.v Dewar and Kusa. 01:1a., and urged them to obstruct the draft * law. RED CROSS WORK. Mrs. C. C. Gambrell, Mrs. J. P. \ Miller. Mrs. Cliff King and Mrs. F. c E. Harrison went over to Greenwood last Saturdav and naid a visit to the .. * c Red Cross Work Rooms and got ^ much useful information as to how best to go about the work at Abbeville. ^ A call has been made on Abbeville for twelve hundred knitted garments and the ladies are ready and anxious to begin this work as soon \ " as the wool can be secured. In the j meantime the work rooms in the City ] Hall are a scene of busy activity with t the cutting of sleeping robes, foot > warmers, pillow cases and all the L other garments which the Abbeville { chapter will make. Mrs. Gordon i White, Mrs. Dendy Miller, Mrs. Cliff ( King and Mrs. C. D. Brown were in \ charge of the rooms Monday morn- < ing and a good amount 01 worK is A ? being gotten ready for those who will j sew. The rooms will be open for ( cutting on Mondays and Saturdays. c The ladies of the county are re- 1 quested to visit the rooms while in ] town attending the openings. They are most attractively arranged and inspire one to work. ? I In order to get all the news we -\ want to ask everybody to get the 1 habit of telephoning the news in to t the office. When you have visitors 1 let us know about it. We are always : glad to publish everything that's 1 news. Parties, receptions, club meet- 'y ings and the like will be gladly pub- ^ ? lished in The Press and Banner. :i I Let's make it a "newsier paper." H Phone number 10. js MEXICAN WAR VETERAN PASSES! \ FORMER ABBEVBLLE IV1A!M i Judge ?J. J. Martin, Once Fam- j ous Palmetto Regiment Hero Dies in Atlanta. Judge J. J. Martin, 91, a veteran ?f the Mexican War of 1847 and a ' esident of Atlanta for 40 years,1' lied early Thursday morning at the 1 tome of his daughter, Mrs. F. J. Al- 1 en, No. 230 East Point avenue. East 'oint, Atlanta, Ga. He had been uffering from paralysis for several , reeks. i Judge Martin was born in Abbe- < iUe, and at the outbreak of the < Jexican War volunteered as a pn- \ ate in the famous Palmetto Regiaent of South Carolina. He took art in the siege of Vera Cruz and I ater the assault and capture of Mex- ' co City. For his valient sendee he 1 pas promoted to be captain and asigned to the Twelfth Regiment, Jnited States Army. In Mexico' 3ity he helped to form and was one f the charter members of the Aztec ^ 31ub, composed of officers of the vicorious forces entering the city after ts fall. < After the war Mr. Martin returned 1 o Savannah and at the old Independnt Presbyterian Church there was j narried July 8, 1853, to Miss Mary f 3. Walker, daughter of Mrs. Robert {. Allen. Soon afterward Mr. Mar-', in was named judge of the Pro-! iate Court of Macon County, Alaba-1 ~ ' J i na, oy jrresiaent Anurew ua^aun.t ,ater he was appointed auditor of he United States Treasury by Presi- : lent Grant. . j] Judge Martin is survived by two laughters. Mrj. Allen, of East Point, ' ,nd Mrs. H. K. Sturdivant, of Green-,1 ille, S. C., two sons, J. J. Martin, ( r., and S. S. Martin, both of At- 1 anta, and five grandchildren, Miss ' Carrie May Allen, P. D. Allen, Miss niita Martin, S. S. Martin, Jr., and E. Martin. The funeral was held Friday after- , loon at 3 o'clock at the Allen home ] n East Point, Dr. Richard Orme ( 'linn officiating. Burial was private, n College Park Cemetery. NEWS FROM LIEUT. SYFAN. ' I News was received Tuesday morn ng in Abbeville by Mr. and Mrs. G. ; >V. Syfan. of the safe arrival of their T-? i i n f T? on, Kaipn oyian, in rrance. xmo ;lad news indeed and will set the ' :eurt3 oi - his relatives and friends at est. When the call for volunteers for Vance was made at Fort Cgiethorpe, Jcut. Syfan was one of the first to "ohinteer and it is pleasing to know hat Abbeville now has a place in the jicture and a more personal touch 'or the prrycrs and good wishes of >ur people. Also E. L. Visanska of Charleston,1 md E. R. Rosenberg of Greenwood, V^re 111 LUC dcllf 1C unit. MEETING OF THE SERVICE LEAGUE i ! Miss Jane B. Evans came to Ab- j )evilie Sunday afternoon and called i meeting of the Service League for Vlonday. The meeting was held at he home of Chief Justice Gary and vas fairly well attended. Miss Evans; vishes to interest the League at Ab-: )eville in the establishment of Com-: nunitv Houses at the different sol lier camps in the state and asked "or a contribution of about five hunlred dollars for this purpose from \bbeville. The state is to be divided nto zones and any money contribut-j ;d from Abbeville will go to the :amps at Greenville and Spartan-' )urg. No definite action was taken Vlonday. SOLDIERS COMING HOME. Of the young men who left Abbet ;ille on last Wednesday morning in: ;he second call for selected men,| ;hree have been found physically un-; it and have been sent home. They , ire, Charles Lee McCain of Due! fVest, James C. McAllister, of Abbeville, and T. H. Mcllwaine of Abbe- . rille. The men are subjected to a "" 'I owominotinri affpr <*pt.t.infr to J?1V& o ?? ? o 3amp Jackson, and many have been sent home. I A GLANCE OVER I THE COUNTRY FOR THE BUSY READER. T i Events of interest Gleaned L From al! Over the Country, j En Condensed Form. Elea Finn, a selectman of Alajnma, hobbled into camp last week ol .vith nothing wrong except a broken Si 'nkle. He was promptly sent to the m lospital. . i C ei Three heavily armed bandits held q ip and robbed a northbound Mobile ind Ohio train near Jackson, Tenn.,j last Friday night, getting only a' mall amount of loot. Posses were;C' *ent in pursuit of the bandits but ;hey were not caught at last reports.' ! m Suffering from tonsilitis, the little sli rirl of T. K. Fort, of Columbus, Ga., m irank water and 'strangled to death C' jefore medical aid could reach her. B | to Sam Richardson, a mill employee', j )f Columbus, Ga., was found Satur-j iay evening with a 44 bullet in his' leek. It was a case of suicide as 65 :he pistol was found nearby. Pi ' th General Korniloff, the former lead- w jr of the Russian army in Petrograd, jf ivill be removed to the city prison. w Because he shouted for the Giants Henry Spies, of Milwaukee, was sent to an insane asylum in Chicago m ecently. Chicago and New York are ai :he contenders for the world's cham- w aionship rag and hence the quick Cl iisposal of Spies. ai m Camp Jackson, Columbia, is the c] ;cene of much activity. Men from ri STorth and South Carolina, Florida,ia( Texas, Illinois, Georgia and Nebrasca are there by the thousands. Some 01 :ame bearing the inscription on their :oats, "Berlin or bust,!' and other ;imely thoughts of patriotism. These ^ are all selective service men. ] 01 The speech of Senator LaFollette w it St. Paul, Minn., recently, has been A ordered transcribed from the steno- Si graphic reports in order that the al- P< leged treasonable remarks may be considered. cc Wilbur D. Mong, a cadet aviator, """< Cotiirrlnv while t.rvinf* to YCU ""1V'U v.~j ....... loop-the-loop in his aeroplane near Mount Clemmons, Midi. He lost control of the machine and it crashed . ir to the ground killing him instantly. His home is in Cleveland, Ohio. a Tom Watson, publisher of The rn JefTersonian, has given up the fight in the court to have his publication Jl admitted to the mails. It was barred from the mails recently on account of alleged unpatriotic utterances. C Senator Ransdell, of Louisiana, Saturday in a ppeech urged the fr.rm-: crs of the South to hold their cotton for a fair and legitimate price and not to sell for less than twenty-five, cents. f A riot which broke out Sunday afternoon in Chattanooga among railway and light employees cost the life of one man, Will Massengale,; who was shot in the back by the guard on a car. Several persons; were injured during the riot. Attorneys for Judge Robert Bingham say that the body of Mrs. Bingham was removed from the; grave at Wilmington, N. C., and some of the vital organs removed and I sent to New York. The case is in the hands of prominent attorneys j and will be investigated by Judge Bingham. It is said that the autopsy was performed in the presence of aj detective and several physicians at1 the instance of Mrs. Bingham's rela-! tives. Civil service examinations will be held at ten different points in South Carolina for the filling of vacancies in the internal revenue department. The nearest town to have one of> these examinations will be Green-i wood, Thursday,. October 25. Those wishing application blanks can get, same by applying to the Civil Ser-: vice Commission, Washington, D. C. j Mrs. Hoke Smith, wife of the Sen-' 1 ator from Georgia, is critically ill in, Washington. Members of the family j were hurriedly summoned by telegraph to her bedside. . . Spray in September .with arsenite fi of lead or zinc rrsenite to control H the sweet-potato leaf-folder. | ? { fCORilCK MINES |E BEINGJEWORKEB O SUPPLY WAR MATERIAL R I arge Vein Discovered Over F fV5i!e in Lenoth and 25 Feet Wide. First Work in 1885 ! McCormick, Sept. 22.?South Car-; ina's latest contribution to Uncle cc im's success in the great war is as anganese from the mines near Mc- in ormick. These mines are being op- fa ated by the Atlantic Manganese cc ompsny, which commenced work to sre about July 1. t wl The company is now shipping two ca irs a week, one of high grade and w le other of low. The Class A ores? lat is, those running 40 per cent, or;ca ore in metallic manganese?are ur lipped to Pennsylvania and are: into ferro-mancanese. The PI lass B ores are purchased by the in irmingham furnaces and are usedjst i make a high manganese pig iron, pi High Percentage of Manganese. PI Much of the Atlantic ore runs over I per cent, in manganese. The silica Wl losphorous and iron content are low; ius making an ideal ore for ferro,jbj ithout wliich it would be difficult!? not impossible to carry on modern.ct arfare. m The Atlantic property comprises 56 acres, which contain a vein of . anganese ore over a pile in length n id varying from eight to 25 feet in idth. The main shaft has already s? it this vein at a depth of 50 feet s id drifting on the vein has com- P1 enced. In addition there are large ay deposits of ve:ry high grade ore j*1 inning as high as 500 tons to tho ^ :re. The prize acre of clay depos- ' s contains about $25,000 worth of L. re, figured at present prices. ^ This property has already shipped C? 3out 50 cars of ore, the first shipent, according to government rec ds, having been made in 1855, hen the ore was sacked, hauled to ugusta by wagons, taken down the ivannah River in barges and shipjd to England. W. M. Grant of Birmingham, the >mpany's engineer, has completed h,' lans for the installation of adequate at achinery for handling the clay de- ju ssits and is now designing a plant w )r the conservation of low grade tc res. The company has been employ- a fth/Mif CCA mnn ir> ifc nnoro. tl! ai;uui/ wv iiitn ucin j in ons and it expects to produce five dc irs or more daily as scon as modern pi ;achinery is installed. - ?.( URORS FOR OCTOBER TERM COURT COMMON PLEAS a n t ourt Will Convene on the Second ? Mondiy in October. : ai W. T. Patterson 12 J. M. Tucker 14 G. M. Morrison 6 3, H. P. Prince 12 ; R. H. Kay 11 J. H. Lovern 14 Joe B. Wilson 10 J. H. Ferguson 12 Maurice Meschine 13 M. G. Ellis 6 |*tc R. L. Dargan 11 , je G. R. Black 4 ; ^ C. L. Hawthorne 6 ! R. L. Barmore 4 . ~ D. Poliakoff : 11 j, . L. R. Speer ? 13 j J. B. Wakefield 12 ! J. C. Nickles 6 T. M. Clamp 5 |'1! J. H. Prince 11 J J. L. Pruitt 5 jC< T. E. Gordon 6 E. H. McCarter __-12 j W. W. Bigny 4 S. J. Hester 14 J C. W. Smith 4 J? J. J. George 14 b; W. G. Robertson 6 ^ J. A. Drake 4 ^ J. L. Sutherland 14 e L. C. Martin 6 ' 3 Alvin Ellis 6 13 C. A. King 6 j"'1 W. A. Hannah 6 J. D. Duncan 6 i John R. Lomax, Sr. 6 . ^ i th W. P. CARWILE TRANSFERRED ! m Private Walker P. Carwile is trans-; er jrred from the mediical departmental no TTunHrprf and' Eighth lnfantrv.; G( is been appointed sergeant of in-iH mtry and assigned to the Three P< undred and Twenty-first Regiment, j W -The State. ( j?< . . . , !UR FARMERS fl SHOULD FIGURE i EGULATE OWN PRICES. N armer Should Figure on His fri Products Same as the Manufacturer Does We would like to see the time me when the farme.- will "figure" re ; carefully and closely on his farm-m g operations as does the manu- wi cturer or other produce". Of m iurse, there are a number of fac- ro rs in agricultural production overch hich the farmer has no control. He de nnot control weather conditions, i be hich is an important factor, butjpr at is no reason why he should notjga irefully regulate those which are le; ider his control. gc If a manufacturer has a waste ar oduct he makes tests, gets all the formation he can from others and'is udies how to dispose of that by-jdc oduct in some way^that will pay a;Wi ofit over and above the cost of dis- er >sing of this by-product, which sc ould otherwise be wasted. m For instance, the corn stover is a;^c r-prodact of the corn grain crop. * oy many larmers nave appnea ac-i -irate methods and facts to deterining which is the best way to dis>se of the corn stover? How many;31 ive collected accurate and definite 10 formation as to whether it is betr to pull the ears and plow the.ar alks under, or to cut the corn,|V ock it and then husk the corn and ru epare the stover by machinery for,re eding or for use as bedding. How 3 uch does it cost to harvest the corn r pulling the ears and husking byyc ind, as compared with cutting, locking and husking by machinery. . hat is the difference in the value of e corn stover plowed under, as impared with feeding the stover ,n( using it for bedding, when the difirence in the cost is carefully cal- ^ ilated??The Progressive Farmer. '1 lor WAS SHOT AT BY U-BOAT. ^ jfo A Greenwood man-who has had the in iir-raising experience of being shot d< ; by a German U-boat, a real one, ai ist before the steamer on which he th as a fireman, was sent to the bot- n< im, who has floated in icy water in rv lifeboat 11 hours during which so me two of his companions froze to vc iath, r.nd who, after he had been th cker] up by a British steamer, was ft 5t allowed to land for five days on1 :count of a mined coast, is at home,Si rair. after an absence of more than year. He is Mr. Herbert McKin-,is 2y, formerly a stone-cutter at Owen c} ros. Marble Yard, now a gunner ft id a fireman on merchant steamers si id a soldier of fortune?good for-i me.?Greenwood Journal. 'r ? w 416 NEGRO TROOPS ORDERED TO CAMP JACKSON 0j ----- lw Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C., c': c-pt. 24.?The war department in a :legram from Provost Marshal Gen-; al Crowder to Governor Manning vt >day, has ordered 8,416 negro se-joi ctive service troops mobilized by in le local boards of South Carolina th id Florida between October 3 and,h< ctober 8, inclusive, for transporta-' on to Camp Jackson. ai Of these troops South Carolina's y< icrement will be 2,618, North Caro- or na's 4,153 and Florida's 1,645.! a wenty-six per cent of the first quota fa >mprises the initial call for negroes.; . 1(5 A MUSICAL. it]( I S?1 Mr. and Mrs. Joe T. Hughes enter- Lf ined a few of their friends last'Wl lturday evening with a pleasant;W( irty in'honor of their week-end lest, Mr. Haskell Ferguson of Ches-'f r. The young people were enter-j"' ined during the evening with sev-!^ il delightful songs by Mr. Ferguson, jrg Ko has a splendid tenor voice, he-; g accompanied on the piano by r. Herman Yoder which was a great I 1 easure to all music lovers and made1 ^ e evening a delightful one. | The dainty refreshments served or ;ar the close of the evening were ijoyed by those present: Rev. and; rs. H. D. Corbett, Mr. and Mrs. !?.r Borge White, Jr., Misses Mary Hill, ? olon TTVUvorHa \Tnrv O T,ink_ Sara I * * - J -V- 7 ~ , . irrin, Bessie Lee Cheatham, Louise 1V atson, Herman and Clyde Yoder, ar :r. Wolfe. du \ i BREEZY LETTER FROM It MILE OTES FROM LEVEL LAND. 1 !r. Carwile Writes Interest- J inc!y?His Views of the Punishment. ? Level Land, Sept. 19.?We have ad with interest your article on ore punishment needed and agree ith you in toto. When a young an seeks by means of deception to r-'M b a girl in her tender years of her aracter and of all that is pure and 7 iar to her the electric chair should . ? s his do.om. I have often been sur ised at some of our women in re- N ird to their attitude to a poor fel- ;'2 n member of their sex. Instead of ?ing to them in a Samaritan way id lending them comfort and the md of sympathy they do all that within their power to drag them / >\vn. This is not the Christ-like ' i - v r ay of treating them for you remnber on one occasion when the ribes and Pharisees brought a woan before Christ who was taken in lultery and told Him the Mosaic w said she should be stoned but irist wrote on the ground: "he :at is without sin among you let m first cast a stone at her." We e not told whether there was a *3 cky knoll about there but we do low no-stones were cast and Christ id the woman were left alone. A sry good way to treat a man who ins the character of a woman is corded in 2 Sam. 13. If you are ' V deceiver read it and watch, but st you have no hide, where a iung lady is penitence and repents her sin in this respect she always , ? 3 ?1. lv. Hj is our prayers ana sympatmes, ior is those who have fallen who need be lifted up. You say you can jver forgive her but what did irist say to Peter? One thing was at he should forgive his brother if i sinned against him and more than le time. We are thankful that ich a man as William Booth, the under of the salvation army, lived, r it has done a great work in liftg up fallen humanity and it will ) what the church will not. These e perhaps a few rare cases where e woman on account of her weak;ss, is to blame but as a general, * :le when everything is boiled down me low down sneaking cur dog iscal in the form of old Satan was e cause of her downfall. Lend her helping hrnd and your sympathy. v Elmore Suber leaves today for partanburg. where he will enter rofford for the coming session. He a young man of irreproachable laracter and we predcit a bright iture for him and wish him much iccess in his studies. ' George Shirley and wife and Mrs. alvin Shirley of Bowersville, Ga.,. ere in our community last week. With but 5 dissenting votes out f a total of 92, Rev. W. J. Foster as re-elected to serve Little River lurch for 1918. An honor well beowed. The Abbeville county Singing Conjntion will be held at Little River i the fourth Saturday and Sunday October. There will be a few iere and come up if you want tc jar good ifhisic and singing. A i t : ~ i*-ii -i- ? j.1 a uur scriooi is iuu to trie overnow id we need another teacher. If >u want your community to pres.* nvard, consolidate and build yov high school and you will be knowi: tr and wide. Persevere. President Garfield died today. Sept. 19) 36 years ago. The bate> of Chirkamaiifa was fought t.hr me day, 1863. Mr. John Hodge.1 ' Donalds, died 1910, Sept. 19. Thk eek in 1913 was the wettest one e had had since spring. The weather has been quite cool r the past week, and some fellows id it never was this way before, ell that's?you know what. Bad collection. 'Tis said that Thomas Jefferson e writer of the Declaration of Inipendence, was not a believer ir e true God, but was a follower of le oi tne greatest mnaeis 01 1110 ;e, Tom Panie. Such wonderful ilures some of our greatest men e and such a heavy burden Tom line and Bob Ingersoll have on eir shoulders for the life they red. Such a pity some smart men e such miserable failures in their :ty toward their God. r ' \ ** -V: .iMT . v ;':i