' ' ' 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.