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GERMANY I
WASP
I Kaiser's Troops SweepI
ing On Toward PetI
rograd
I BERLIN PAYS SCANT
1 HEED TO BOLSHEVIKI
' la Palestine British Make Another
I Ad?>*cet Capturing Import|
ant Position*.
ft the penetration of the'
>ng the railroad lines leadtrograd
and Smolensk at
nts had reached more than
Lies and thence southward
rn Esthonia to Lutsk, is!
i five hundred miles in
Heed to P?act Cry.
?ed has been taken by thej
athorities of Germany of
py iiiiiui im of -m de><part
of .the BoUheviki
t for a peace on Ger
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terms. Except zor a u?-i
V mand by the German commander at
that#n aatfeentic copy
M of the ^ftalsheviki document of capi
filiation signed byLflnine and TrotH
iky be sent hip. no attention lias
been paid. to. the pjyresscd desire
for a cessation of hostilities.
M*d?_ jn America.
Secretary of .^Tar Baker in an hn
portant announcement says the first\
American-bui^t 'battle planes are onj
their way to France, nearly five j
months ahead of the original sched-j
I WATCHFUL SENTRY
Hj BALKS GERMAN DASH
With the American Army in
SH France, Feb. 19.?A German patrol
' ready to ambush an American patrol,
was discovered early this morn
ing by a sentry who"gave the alarm
by a rifle shot; then the American
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II machine guns riddiea tne enemy.
I The Germans fled, carrying their
I casualties with them, but ground
[ where they had been was later
I found to be covered with tell tale
I red stains. J
There were no casualties among;
I tfce Americans. I
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TO CAMP JACKSON. j
Wednesday, seven of our boys
went to Camp Jackson to go into j
the army. They were: Marvin An-|
derson Baldwin, Henry Clay Spence,
[Jesse David Bell, Charlie Kay MatItison,
Paul Wilson Cox, John M.)
[Pratt and Jas. M. Cox.
HOME GATHERING.
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Thomas, Mrs.
Morgan Baldwin and son, Morgan,
Jr., of Denver, and Mrs. Rod Layton,
of Gainesville, are here on a
visit to their father, Judge R. E.
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mm run.
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U COTTON MARKET \
Cotton 32c. V
Seed $1.06 1-2
? The
German invasion of Russia
.continues unimpeded. Aparently
4 flrere is to be no cessation in the
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(" easvwaru uioivu w* ?
"the Russian Bolsheviki government
entirely slakes the thirst of. he Teu"tons
for- a peace "which corresponds
with our interests*" >s expressed by
''file German foreign minister. South
v JSsthonia has been entered by troops
from German warships in. the Gulf
of Riga or from Moon Island or
Oesel Island, lying off the shore, and
:a*base established from which oper'
ations may be carried on against
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Reval, an important port; on the]
'GSnTonH* northeast and east
CONTINUES
I OF RUSSIA
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Honor Roll of
Abbeville Schools
HONOR ROLL OF THE GRADED
(3
AND HIGH SCHOOLS FOR THE
FIFTH MONTH.
Grade I.?Mary Chalmers, Charlotte
Reese, Apne Smith, Edn?
White.?Miss Bess Epting, Teacher
' Grade I.?Virginia Starnes, / Margaret
Maxwell, Henry Power.?Mist
Coline Phillips, Teacher.
Grade II.?John McMurray, Mabel
Bradley, Ruby Brown, Susar
Minshall, Minnie Ella Swetenberg.?
I Miss Flora Timmons, Teacher.
Grade II.?H. Doyle Bauknight
j Martha D. Calvert, M. Estelle Lyon,
I Jean W. Milford.?Miss Olive Broc>
I Teacher.
Grade III.?Alma Gaston, ^94;
Mary Ferguson, 95; Anna Jones, 93;
j William Deadwyler, 96.?Miss May
iJRobertson, Teacher.
; Grade III.?Thelma Bauknight
190; Sara Cowan, 93; Margarel
| Flynn, 93; Irene McMahan, 92"
Margaret Penney, 91; Helen Starnes
r 90.?Miss A. Richards, Teacher.
Grade IV.?Mark Hawthorne, 93;
Mildred Deadwyler, 92.?Miss Sara
j W. Edwards, Teacher.
j Grade IV.?Perrin Dargan, 931
Bill Greene, 98; Willis Harrison, 95;
James McComb, 97; HenTy Simp
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son, 99; Rose jLee Anaerson, ??;
Lavinia McCuen, 94; Hazel McCurry,
94; Rachel MInshall, 98.?Miss
Etta L. Allen, teacher. , . ;
Grade V.?Bob Dargan, 95; Judith
Hill, &2; Anthony Tewnant, 91;
Frances Rose, 91; Mary llntfdy, 91.
?Misa Blanche Tarrant, Teacher.,
The honor roll of the High School
will be published next week. It wax
impossible fox; them alj to get them
reaftytkW'wwk
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BAKER EXPLAINS NEEDS
W A KM i in acviu.!
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Washington, Feb. 20.?Estimates
of the amounts of money that must
be expended on the military establishment
in the next fiscal year were
submitted to the House military affairs
committee today by Secretary
of War Baker. It is understood the
bill will carry appropriations totaling
in the neighborhoood of $7,000,000,000.
Secretary Baker's estimony
was given behind locked doors
and was described by members of
the committee as "highly confidential."
U. S. TAKES OVER THE
HUDSON RIVER TUBES
| Washington, Feb. 20.?The Hudson
River tubes have been taken over
by the Government, Judge John
Barton Payne, attorney for the railway
administration, announced this
afternoon.
The action was taken, he explained.
because the tubes are a neces
sary part of the Pennsylvania Railway
system.
NO SERVICES.
On account of meningitis, there
will be no services at Long Cane
Church until further notice.
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|V FIFTEEN SHIPS SUNK. V
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! V London, Feb 20.?British V
j V merchantmen sunk by mine ^
j V or submarine in the past V
i V week numbered 15, accord- \
| ing to the admiralty state- ^
! V. ment issued tonight. Of V
jV these 12 were of 1,600 tons ^
| V or over and three were under ^
| V that tonnage. One fishing V.
I craft also was sunk. ^
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'NO AGREEMENT
WITH CARPENTERS
, Acceptance of Open
Shop, Brings Settle;
ment Nearer
i OBJECTS, TO OTHER POINTS
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Refuse* to Leave to Board Question
of Deciding Conditions of
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Labor.
Washington, Feb. 20.?Government
officials and heads of the Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners
failed to come to an agreement today
on the claims of ship carpenters,
but at the shipping board tonight it
was said a settlement was not far
I off."
Acceptance by William L'. Hutcne|
son, president of the carpenters' or'
| ganization, of the principle of the
II open shop during the war which he
has fought, was the most important)
! development at the conference be-j
' i tween the carpenters' teaders, mem- j
' bers of the shipbuilding adjustment!'
f i f i
! board and Gen. Manager Piez, of |
the Emergency Fleet Corporation, j
' Hytcheson still refuses to leavej'
[i to the adjustment board, as request-J
'jed by President "Wilson, the quesj
tion of deciding conditions of labor. '
Further conference will be held
''tomorrow in an effort to come to;'
an understanding.
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j WILL OPEN UP NEW
i COTTON EXCHANGE
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'J New York, Febi. 19.?A new ex- '
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; change for dealing in cotton, linters, ,
] cotton oil, grain, sugar, coffee, wool, .
:! silks, and provisions, to be known qs "
! the American Cotton and Grain lix,
change, hacked chiefly by Southern
i capital, will he* opened her? May 1,:7
!;it became known today. The 'ex-!.
change, incorporated unde* the; laws
of New Tcrrlc, lias taken title to .a
modern office building in the financial
district i<
The dealings of the new institution
-will be upon .a "spot" basis ]
wi^h "reasonable brokerage chttrg- ,
?s," according to its president, Jos- .
; j eph G. Cooper, of Atlanta. Members ]
I are customers will be enabled to buy j
in small quantities. Cotton, which ,
will be one of the principal commo- j
dities marketed, will be dealt in in j 5
twenty and fifty-bale lots and up-!
ward, and deliveries made at bonded J _
warehouses in the cotton belt, the 1,
collot liavintr flip nnfr.inn of naminc. .
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the point of delivery. t
"This," said Mr. Cooper today,
"will make a uniform price, less or
j plus the difference in freight rate
to New York, which will stop manipulation,
and supply and demand j
will control the price." i
Similar arrangements have beenj ]
| made for other commodities. The I s
j exchange has about 4,500 members, j <
J mostly bankers and manufacturers ]
J in cotton growing States. !
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JAMES COX. j
James Cox left Wednesday for t
Camp Jackson, where he is going in; (
the army. James is a fine young '
man and has lots of friends who are'
anxious to see how he looks in a!
uniform. He has tried several times I
to enlist but was knocked out on: I
account of his eyes. He stood the <
examination again last week up in \ ]
Greenville and was accepted. i
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OFF ON A VISIT. ]
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>'? T71 1. -D n?? MToAnac. I
lvirs. r rwiifL jj. uai j ** .
I day for Charleston, where she will j
'I make a short visit, after which shej
| will go to Richmond, Washington!
'j and Philadelphia for .visits to her '
'j brothers. ^ i '
j SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN
HAS APPENDICITIS :
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Washington, Feb. 19.?Senator,]
. Chamberlain will be operated on at j:
. once for appendicitis. j ]
PRICE Of WHEAT
MUST STAY FIXED
Administration to Earnestly
Oppose the
Change
NOW SELLING AT $2.20 EUSHF.L
To Change Price Wpuld Upaet Food
Administration's Entire Bread
Program.
Washington, Feb. 20.?The full
influence of the Administration will
be used iJ! necessary to prevent enactment
of bills pending in Congress
to increase the price ol! wheat.
xms uectuiie miuvyii ami gnu uuu>
an authoritative source. Opposition
to the measures, another of which
was introduced today by Representative
Helvering, of Kansas, is bisect
on the ground that their passage
would upset the entire wheat and1,
bread program of the food administration,
worked out in great deiiail.,
and that President Wilson already
has full authority to readjust the
price if it. is found advisable.
Wheat is selling now on a basis
of $2.20 a bushel and the price is
maintained by heavy government
purchases for the army and navy
and for the Allies. The food adraini
istration has worked out a scale of
profit for millers and distributors of
Sour on this basis and bread is (telling
at a fixed price.
In enacting the food control law
Congress placed an arbitrary minimum
price of $2 a bus'tiel on next
season's crop. This is the price that
the bills offered seek 1;o increase,
rhe difference betwen th pricc of
laat. ya^s yield"'$nd this' year's grop
eras fixed in large measure to cli-aw
wheat from the farms befons the
new- eron. is- marketed.
SOUTH CJUtOLINA BOY
WINS FRENCH MEDAL'
Washington, Feb. 20.?For l?*av.-(
Bry under lire- while with the irrenct:
Forces, an American private, Jameft
E,. . Moore, h^s been awarded tire
Croix de Guerre. The medal was
received this afternoon by the War
Department;, which handed it over
to the State Department, where it
mil be held until Moore is authorized
by act of Congress to receive
it.
Moore is with- the Seventh nth
Ambulance Company, which rceently
tvas sent to France unassigned. His
mother, Mrs. aMggie Moore, lives
it Bennettsville, S. C.
HUBER McILWAIN ILL.
^uber Mcllwain, one of the young
nen who went up to Greenville lust
week to be examined by the District
Board, developed a case of cerebro
jpinal meningitis on Sunday. A
specialist, Dr. Burman, from the
Red Cross staff of Columbia, came
jp Wednesday night to confer with
ihe doctors here. He prenounced
it a case of the most virulent type.
The young man is quite ill and
is we go to press grave results are
jxpected.
R. A. HENRY.
Robert A. Henry of the Wm. H.
HaKK i?T 1 n qfnrp left: TllfiS
3ay night for his home in Olney,
til., where he goes to enlist in the
irmy. He has made quite a number
of friends who regret that he is
leaving Abbeville and wish him a
jafe return from Over There.
MIMS CASON.
Mims Cason arrived in the city
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last mgni irora wouoru riumg
School. He will be here on account
af the holiday to celebrate George
Washington's Birthday and also his
father's birthday. Mims is a very
bright young man and will make a
mark in the world. He regularly
reads The Press and Banner which
tie says that he enjoys.
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MORE TON]
NO'
No Date Set
For Next Call
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OVER 2,000,000 DRAFT MEN IN
CLASS 1 ACCORDING TO
ESTIMATES.
Washington, Feb. 20.?Between
! 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 men will be
| embraced in Class 1 in the coming
draft, according- to estimates at the
office of Provost Marshal General
Crowder announced this afternoon.
The number depends upon the percentage
of exemptions for physical
disability, which may run as high as
40 per cent.. Even with such a high
percentage, the number available
will be considerably more than 2',
000.000, it was said.
Following repeated publications
that a new draft will be ordered May
1, Secretary of War Baker this afternoon1
authorized the statement
that no date has been set.
COLORED MEN TO LEAVE.
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The following colored men are to
leave for Camp Jackson on Monday,
j Feb. 25, on the. Seaboard at 12.84:
J Asberry Hunter, Jr., Benson Wil-j
liams, John Bryant, Wade Roberson, |
Curtis Cunningham, Elbridge Cun!
ningham, Clarence Stewart, Major
; Chappell, Allen Morrison, Oscar
j Cunningham, David Chiles, Milton
Bailey, Matthew Huiter, Willie Linzy,'
Georgo Blue, Willie Clinkscales,
Ernest Btrtrnh*,'-George-tfcCftBtt;
i Wade Ellis, Lewis Weston, Arthur
Jackson, Augustus Smith, Xa&es
' Arthur Mbhrgne,v; gam Harkness,
Elijah Rduntree,' Roy Mattison, Josh
^ropks, Nelse Cas4y, Sain Leonard,
MansfiefcT Ropinion, Charlie Baindrop,
Luther Cowan, Arne^t Young,
Josh JfcCollough, Jim Wright, Murray
Cobb, Iris Hunter, . Erskine ^ S.
Young, Sam-pel fealhonn, Raymond
Brownlee, Toney Jenkins, Ulysses
^.iken.Furman Ellis, Bishop Belcher
Jesse Young, Ben Haddon, perry
Watts, John Henry Scotland, George
Washington Lee, Paul Butler, Mose
Harper, Eugene McCord, Frank Perrin,
Warren Sullivan, Cleveland Allen,
Jas. W. C. Joseph, Joel Fisher,
Will Collier.
J. ALLEN LONG FOR MAYOR.
Mr. J.' Allen Long is announced
in this issue - as a candidate for the
office of mayor. He is a life-long
resident 01 tne city, ana ieeis tnat
he is capable of serving the public
in the office to which he aspires with
fidelity.
He will, no doubt, in a few days
make known where he stands on
public questions.
2,000 PERSONS KILLED \
BY 'QUAKE IN CHINA
Tokio, Feb. 20?There were 2,000
casualties resulting from the earthquake
at Swatow, China, last Wednesday,
according to information received
today.
Seismographs here registered the
shock.
FAILING TO REGISTER.
Deputy U. S. Marshal went to
McCormick this week and arrested
Tummy Dunlap and Jonas Timpson
for failing to register. They were
carried before Commissioner L. W.
> Harris and given bond of $200 each.
| The preliminary hearing will be held j
' on the 2!5th and 26th of this month. |
MISS HEFFERNAN.
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I Miss Marie Heffernan of Augusta, J
| arrived in the city Wednesday to!
; take the place of stenographer for
| Mr. Wm. P. Greene. She is quite
| attractive and will make many
friends by her pleasing personality.
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WIN SIGHT
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Shipping Experts Predict
Upward Curve to
Continue.
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LABOR CHIEF FACTOR
OF AMERICAN YAKUS ;;
Goat' ofTcrur- Million Tons Htn . >
Expected in' Spite of the .Labor ' v''
Dlffievlthn.
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Washington, Feb. 20.?^Overseas
ship tonnage available to America
and the Allies passed its low point
about February 1, several weeks
earlier than shipping experts hail
predicted.
Officials believe the upward curve r , ' >)
will continue until the war is endefl
unless difficulties not now foreseen
are encountered. v
In support of this belief attenjBo*
was called today to the satisfactory
results obtained m the campaign
against the enemy submarines, te %
the fact that government ships now v-\
are coming from American yards,
and to the progress of negotiation*
fjor neutral vessels to be used in,tie
non-hazardous trades to release other
shipping for overseas) commerce.
Experts' .Prediction. ,
When, experts first plotted >;43m
curve of the tonnage supply, taking ^
into consideration the greatest.,ap&.
cess of submarines and all posapSa ( , ..'j
contingencies; in> the domestic . sHaa- " v
Hon they found that the, mimbejj of
vessels available^, for .,tranppBr??g^?.v v
troops and for feeding the AlTww
would be'lower toward the en^ ?f" .
this month than at, any other period.
Just how closejto the danger
that would be- they, did, not cai^vte >
say.' Knowledge^that the Gtmrm
sank about; H^.jDpbUlion toaar ot#hipa
in;.1917, nearly
as -was prodnc?t ^\Gr?at \ - Bzitafai
apt the Unite^Stet*, did Jiot
change their estimates.. ... ^
.Tnal
For the lait three weeks now fte
charts of the shipping board hp**
shown a steady upward1'trend. Officials
think that from now on n?v
factors will aid' rather than retard
the efforts to put more ships into
service. Chief of these will be restrictions
of imports, made effective
February 16, the results , of
which will not be noticeable fer
\
weeks yet. As more ships are need- '"
e? they will be withdrawn from the
neutral traae ana commerce win
those countries curtailed to that m.tent
Optimistic View.
Officials declined to say what waa
:
the dominating factor in checking
the decline in available tonnage. Dospite
labor troubles confidence is expressed
that the goal of four toHImhi
tons of shipping will be reached im
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this country this year. Sailing vmsels,
of which there are 2,500,OH
tons under the American flag, are
being put into the coastwise aad
other trade to release the faster
steamers for transatlantic service.
MISS RUTH HOWIE HONORED.
A'
Miss Ruth Howie, the accomplished
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. .
Howie of Abbeville, and who is a
student at Brenau, is winning /high
honors there. A few evenings ag*
she was notified that she had beta
t-olnnt-Df) hlT tVlO Pacilltv of that is
sjitution as one of nine girls wko
would form a new sorority?tke
Lambda Beta Psi, the nine being
selected out of the whole student
body on account of having the highest
averages on their reports.
Miss Howie is an accomplished
musician, and one of Abbeville'*
prettiest as well as best and most
beloved young ladies. Her friend*
will read with great pleasure of the
high honor which is hers.
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