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' ' ' v vi/gaia Abbeville Press and Bannerol Established 1844. $ 1.50 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, Feb. 12,, 1918., * Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Yean AMERICAN ( NOW IN \ _ French General Relin- ^ quishes Command? Was Pleased Me |: PRAISE FOR THE I AMERICAN SOLDIERS I . Compliments Our Soldier* On Un K Their Ardent Desire to Excel rat 8 In Warfare. ob< the I!/ "With the American Army in C01 France, Saturday, Feb. 9.?An Anerican general now commands the I -sector of the front r^cntly taken! ^ over by our troops. When the Americans first entered the sector it waar'under the command of a French an< general commanding a certain large rec unit of the French army. ' in turnine over the sector, to the an . * American general on February 6,jby the French commander issued a gen-J eril order in which he expressed! ' complete satisfaction with our i DE troops and was confident that the ' sector was in good hands, and if at- j tacked would defend *it with great! pr. ?lor. L Order for Transfer. I 0? The order turning the sector over i ajj. to the Americans, a copy of which j^j was communicated to our forces, caj | coi "On February ?the commandingj on< general of American unit takes t0 command of ?? sector. The com-: "mantling general of *Tencn unit wa takes occasion to express to the ou| American general, the colonels of for %- artillery and all of the American g0( units, which have been under his or- ,ja, ders, complete satisfaction with the ^ way in which the American troops! mu have acquitted themselves for the j ecj mission entrusted to them. Their ' good will and their ardent desire to ^jg excel ^md the rapidity with which i ^ they have adapted themselves to life of the sector have Gen. hands;wa I over the sector with confidence that j it is in good hands and that the i a^( American troops will organize it e(j with method and the tenacity char- ma acterizing American genius and in' gjS| case of attack will defend it with! : * .great valor." j his [ r 0 I are I ORDER Ufr tail citl BOARD OF HEALTH am of I Abbeville, S. C., Feb. 9, 1918. jjr On account of the presence of the first case, of epidemic njenin- ne? gitis in the city, we order that the j churches, schools and moving pic- jfg tares of the City be .. closed until 0?c Monday,.Feb. 17th,> 1918,.- . jje Wi. also recommend send urge ;ej( parents to keep their children at api {ran* aWd co-operate with us in tye pall precautions possible to -n . prevent the spreading of this dis- Mr -f ?**?- cha T n A AflnVv DlflirmnTI. < 1 I?J. XV. ruwci, n?.?iu6 [na J. S. Morse, Wm. E. Hill, C. C. Gambrell, M. D. . a ^ City Board of Health. ? to CARD OF THANKS. mo yea We desire to express our appre- his ciation to our friends for the many bus acts of kindness and thoughtfulness by "shown us through many weeks. Not cus only did our neighbors and friends I s? *~trm /-.ti+Ho themselves in minis- fan 1^ ill wn?? tering during the long illness of our two sisters, but many in the surrounding country remembered 'us handsomely. We cannot write to ev- ! ery one, but we desire to make wai known in this public way their good- das ness and our deep gratitude for the Pre same. We feel that more has been citj done for us than was ever done for her any others in this community. like Miss Rebecca D. Cater. sur Mrs. Sarah A. Wilson. Bai IENERAL COMMAND aylight Saving Plan Will Soon Be In Force * ? a*ure Is Favorably Reported to te House by Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. Washington, Fib. 9.?That the ited States will go on daylight ;ions between March 30 and Octir 30 seemed certain today when i Interstate foreign commerce j nmittee favorably repo^d the j rland daylight saving/bill to the ; use. v . : he bill would set standard andjl Iway time ahead one hour. A bill j begin saving daylight April 30 j i to end the period September 30 ently was enacted by the Senate, j t Senator Calder said today that amendment to increase the time! two months would be acceptable | the Senate without conference. ! , , LATH OF MR. MARCUS KELLER When the news came to the city j iday that Mr. Marcds Keller wasi id there were many expressions; surprise "for it was not gener-| y known that he was not well.! lile Mr. Keller has never been! led a robust man he has not been* isidered a sick man. On the sec-, 1 Heatless Monday he went out| his home in the Long Cane sec-: n to visit his home people. He' s not feeling well so he stayed, i there to rest up,and be ready! the work in the store when the j >d weather came. On last Sun- j f he stayed in bed and then on I ursday he became very sick, so L :ch so that his family were alarmHe died at about two oclock :day afternoon. The cause of; death was uraemic poisoning. Mr. Keller was the oldest child of' . and Mrs. W. W. L. Keller and J s born in Sewanee County FloriApril 17, 1870. When he was >ut ten years old his parents mov-l to this conuty where they have I de their home ever since. One | L ?r, Mary Emma, died in Florida j en she was quite young. All of ^ p other brothers still survive. They i, Messrs. L. W. Keller of this p, Mr. I. L. Keller of Clemson, I Messrs H. E., W. W. and C. W., near the citf, and three sisters, ^ s. J. L. Johnson of Hartsville, . jses Annie and Sudie Keller of ^ ir the city. funeral services were held in the i" jut-. 'a u thodist Church Saturday at one ^ |cck and the interment was at lrose cemetery. Rev^ J. L. Dan- T< . i;.'. f-Vvj:5j i<- > . ' i, his pastor, made a lew very M >ropriate remarks which expressed 01 life of the man which were said ^ five words, "He was a good man." . Keller was very liberal in his n irity giving to every needy cause t he was asked to and hunting places where he could best help, a' was never married. When quite oung boy he joined the Ebenezer c< thortist Church butk on coming n' Abbeville to make his home he \ ved his membership here. For P1 irs he has been associated with brother here in the mercantile liness and they have prospered their fair treatment of their Vomers. Deep sympathy is felt for the c< lily in this sad hour. o; ' -? <S MRS. EAKIN. Ar*. T. B. Eakin of Honea Path, 36 i a visitor in Abbeville on Satur- in r. She is a subscriber to The ai tss and Banner and while in the h< r she came around and renewed w subscription. She says that she ir :s to read th6 news and she is m e to get it in The Press and tl mer. bi J , * . . -,r' THE SAME, YES1 FORE Ever since the Liberty Bell al to the world in 1776 this coun Right "as God gives us to see th Presidents from the time of G< breathes these highest ideals. So in this greatest of all wars I noblest of sentiments, emphasiz is a war of high principles, debt conquest or spoliation," and "th< sentiment must .be of like motivi It jeems most fitting, therefore the birthday of Abraham Lincoli words of this great President ii it is a wonderful expression of t ti?? mIwavi fnucrkt and is still fia LINCOLN'S GETTY Fourscore and seven years ag< this continent a new nation, con io the proposition that all men i Now we are engaged in a grea ..-li-;. . .... Jitu nation, or any nation so conceit endure. We are met on a great have come to dedicate a portion place for those who here gave tl live. It it altogether fitting and j But, in a larger sense, we can brave men, living and dead, who ed it far above our poor power will little note nor Jong rememb* never forget what they did here, to be dedicated here to the unfii fought here have thus far so nob to be here dedicated to the grei that from these honored dead we cause for which they gave the 1 that we here highly resolve that in vain?that this nation, under freedom?and that government o the people, shall not perish from MS SNUFFED OUT BY MARINE Barnes of 1,832 American Troops Saved, Come By Cable ,IST OF THE UNREPORTED . . robably More Than 200 of Those Appearing on the List Are Safe In Ireland. Washington, Feb. 10.?Eighteen undi'ed and thirty-two names of merican soldiers rescued from the >rpedoed liner Tuscania had, been 'ported tonight to the War Depc rtient, leaving 345 of the soldierg, on oard unaccounted for. No official sport has reached the departmmt ) change the estimate that all ex;pt 118 of the men were saved, but ie names ha^e been coming in very owly over the cables, and there is 6 .asurance as to when the list will b complete. From the names so far received nd the pa3enger list of the "jec earner the Associated Press has jmpiled the record of those still at reported. Probably more than 00 of the men whose nam'.# spear on this record are safe in Ire.nd and will be so reported r.oon. INJURED BY FALL. A. C. Sutherland, who has the , >ntract to build the concrete house f Miss. Corriei Killingsworth, on i outh Main street, fell from the pstairs window yesterday and was i1 iverely injured. He broke one leg 1 two places just below the knee ( id the heel and on the other fOot 2 broke the bone in the heel. He as taken immediately to his board- . ig place where he had immediate ledical attention. He was taken on 1 le Southern to his home in Colum- ' ia on the afternoon train. ' - -- I rERDAY, TODAY, I ;ver. J : Philadelphia tolled its message j try has lived for Liberty a ad e Right." The language of our ! :orge Washington to this day , J the President again expresses the * > - i , t j '<' i? V ' r?4 and so dedicated, can lonjf t-< -.1 i . ... . battle field of that war. Wo of that field as a final mitinj; leir lives that that nation might proper that we should do tliii. i not hallow?this ground. This 1 strangled here, have can secret* to add or detrsct. This vroHil ?r what we say here, but it can It is for us, the living, rather ( nished work which they who ily advanced. It is rather for un l it task remaining before us? I take increased devotion to that: ast full measure of devotion?< i these dead shall not have diee. God, shall have h new birth of i f the people, by the people, foi i 1*1(4% mrth. CANT IK NEW j AMERICAN SHIPS : j Means Found to Make .Transport Secure from!; Submarines i1 SHIP FLOATS WITH HOLE IN IT , jl Vice Chairman of Naval Consulting; ' Board Makes Far Reaching ' Statement. i _ *.} New York, Feb. 9.?Means have c been found to make transports un- i sinkable by submarines, according to I i a . statement made here tonight by j f Win. L. Saunders, vice chairman of! i the naval, consulting board, in . an j i address at a dinner of the XJiniver- JI rfity of .Pennsylvania Alumfii. k jo Mr. launders said that one of the' of the 8hjj)8 fiecehtiy comiqnirfideered | ^ by the gov?rnfnent "now Ueji at ahL A flonfi/i on/1 in a4l.?f? fT?nf ' - nMOUVlV W uuu Ail ouwu UUW|#V vu?^w ^ shfc can hot be stink bjr ah ?xpl6 iing t torpfcdd." 8 "I can conceive of no reauon why this information should be with- t held," he added. 'On the Contrary, j I believe it is well thai; the enemy ^ may come to realize that tie time has; been reached when American transports are ready for the trans- Q poitation of our troopn which the enemy can not sink." "This ship may have a hole 30 or Q 40 feet in diameter blown in her ^ side and she will remain afloat. Such a hole would waterlog but onel _ length of the honey combed airtight 8 cells." h i ?' Mr. Saunders described in detail the plan to keep ships afloat after ^ they had been torpedoed and the ^ manner in which it had been devel- ^ oped by William F. Donnelly, a New York engineer, working under " authorization of the navy consulting board. t L ^VVVVVVVVVVVVVW J! ^ Seed $1.06 1-2 V B W VV WW VV VV^S, a ing again and again "that tliii ised by no selfish ambitions of ' ? cause being just and holy, the i and quality." i, that on thi? day, February 12, a, we should hear again the i his Gettysburg address. For he cause for which this Nation hting to-day. j 3BUKV) AUUKCSS. I a our fathers brought foirth o'1 j ceived in liberty and d?dli:at?i lire created ecjual. f ei*ii war. (iMtincr whethir tliat LONG WEST SEES INFAN Heatless Mondays Ended Yesterday 1 Fuel Administration Officials Announce Great Improvement in Traffic Condition^. Wshington, Feb. 10.?The East psrill observe tomorrow what fuel administration officials today predicted would be its last heatless Monday. Already the closing has been suspended in so far as it applies to sight Southern States south of Virginia and officials believe the good breather of the last few. days with its consequent improvement in railroad traffic conditions will make enforcement unnecessary anywhere after this week. DEATH OF MRS. kARt CAROLINE GARY Mrs. Mary Caroline Gaiy, daughter of Stephen Blackburn and his wife, Elizabeth Gaiy, of Newbeiry County, and wife of the late Dr. Franklin F. Gaiy, of Abbeville, S. H J a/ TtiofiAA T7!n_ l/i) auu mutuci ui vuivx vuowiw ijene B. Gary and Circuit Judge Frank B. Gary, died at the home of Chief Justice Gary on Saturday morning, February 9th, at five o'clock, after a brief illness. Mm. Gary, at the time of her death, was in her eighty-filth year. Most of her life had been spent at Cokesbury and Abbeville, S. C. Her pastor, Dr. G. W. Swope, in his tribute to her memory at the grave, which, is published in another column ?f this issue, mentioned most of the facts in her life, which should be mentioned at this time. It might be :j -t t ] saiu ui net uisi/inguiaiicu uuououu, in addition to what Mr. Swope so svel) said, that he was a brigade surgeon in the War Between the States, stationed the greater portion of the time at Charleston, S. C. Cornelia, the mother of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, said of herself that she sought none of the lonors in life which belonged to nen, but that she was content to1 je the mother of the Gracchi. Mrs.' jfary imitated her worthy example.' Endowed with a mind capable of J ^rasping the many questions, which] lave engaged the attention of men luring the long period of her event;ul life', and of mastering these juestions as well as they, she 'ound her handiwork, nevertheless, n the home and she was content to ear sons to become law-makers, aw-interprfetera ana aetive citizens if the country. She gave jto the Bench of South Jarolina three judges, a distinction irhich has come to ho other woman a South Carolina, nor perhaps in he whole country. Two of th&e ons survive her arid are still servng their State in the full vigor of heir mentality. The other son, udge Ernest Gary, who was first a istinguished lawyer, and afterwards, for twenty-two years, one f the most learned circuit judges n the Bench, preceded her to the Tave some years ago. An only' aughter, Mrs. Marie Gary Eason,j f Charleston, S. C., is a worthy aughter of her noble mother. Funeral services were conducted t Long Cane cemetery Sunday af- . ernoori at four o'clock in the preshce of numbers Of her friends. Her ody was laid to rest beneath th*5 rave some yers ago. An only and in tne liary plot, in tne msjric old burying ground, to await te Resurrection. A choir consisting of Mrs. J. D. [err, Mrs. Bedford Davis, Misses ' izzie Edmunds and Pevna Seal and i [essrs. J. S. Cochran and W. W. irandley sang "Asleep in Jesus' ! nd "Nearer My God, to Thee" at 1 4 J.; . ? . i " ' * v . t . ERN FRONT TRYCLASH ; ' Y fl Violence of Military Activity; O n Entire 1 Western FrdnL AMERICAN SOLDIERS TRAPPED BY ENErffY S? 1 v . Small Party Ambritcaded Ejr Gmrliian*, Fight* ValUntljr AgtiSnit Superior Forto. The military activity in the major theaters of the war daily coritinrffes to increase. Proin tie tfortfi Sea id L ii ill!. a -'J aiuiig tut nut: m uci^iuui auu ;; vi| France and on tfiS northern Italiftn front frbm ttie region of Lake da eastwsird toward the Piave River, there have beeii clashes betweendpposing infantry at various points and bombardinnts of extremely vto- . lent proportion' on numerous sec-, tine Again American troops holding the line in the region of St. Mihie! have come into contact with the (Jar- . "IM mans and silvered a few casualties. These men, operating between the lines; were ambuscaded by a super- , ior force of the enemy, but fought valiantly against great odds until 'f| they were either killed or made prisoners. ,! Immediately the patrol was at- Y$S tacked, the guns of the Americans in the trenches l&id dbwn a biavK'^^i rage against the Germans, The German artillery again has . jjjl begun an intensi^e -Jbombardment ^ British positions in the neighborhood of the Hdutholst forest, north 'r''M of Ypres, and southwest of Can^' ! brai, while violent duels are in pro' gress between the Germans and the <;| French around Nieuport, in tin 'jM Champagne, on the t Verdun sector and in the Vosges. The German of- f ficial communication says there has Vtppn inr?rp?spd n/>tivifv aoroinnt tl?? / . '1X3 I Germans on both sides of the Moselle. Except for several attempted raids by the Germans and Austrian* on the northern Italian front, the big guns on both sides are doing aH '-'/M of the work. ? ? i. NEGRO SHOOTS ANOTHER. . Henry Young is in jail as the resuit, of his shooting Henry Smith Sunday afternoon. It is said that Smith was trying to take Youths wife away from iiitt. TSfro loads from a. double barrel shot gtifc Htkn emptied in Smith. He is in a cHtical condition and inajr dife. Tfcfcy live , on the ^I2$&&Sn? ofUr CBh> lie Evans and tif. W. J. Evans* id Lebanon. r . ' tilts. carWile. ilra. Elizabeth Carwiley who lis visiting at the Home of Mm. Jdhn -.-"j Evans at Lebanon, fell Sunday afternoon.and it is thouglit she broke her hip. She was taken over to Dr. Pryor's yesterday. Mrs. Carwile i? about 74 years old. U. D. C. POSTPONED. ^ \-i On account of the quarnfine Che U. D. C. meeting will be indefinitely postponed. the conclusion of Dr. Swope's iddress. Among her near Mridred who came to Abbeville to pay their last tribute to her memory, were the following: Hon. John 'Gary Evani, Spartanburg; Hon. N. George Evan*, of: Edgefield; Barnard B. Evans, / Esq., of Columbia, Frank G. Tompkins, Esq., of Columbia; John M. : ' Kinard, of Newberry, and Miss Mary Evans of Edgefield, and Mk. Ihos Pope, of KtMrds.