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??mwiiiiwiiwiiiiiiimiiiiiiinnniiiininiiniiiiTiinmini-Tr-rimrnrmTrT"" GENERA 1?iwiwiiiMiim?>mMHinii'iwM??nMiinniinininiinnniir"TitTii?n?t MWWil The shortest man ever accepted at the Charleston recruiting station ^ was four feet eleven inches high. I A waiver on his height was asked ^ and granted and he was accepted 1 for the Ninety Second Engineers. ^ a A Bill providing for the construction of a bridge and a tunnel across . Dnonhnmo >100 Vtoon nnnmvpH hv 1 MIV WOJ/itVi IUVVI* V . ^ x the Turkish Parliament. This is v the connecting link between Asia t and Europe. A Budapest firm has a the contract and work will begin in d April. n The schools, churches, moving picture shows and other places of ti public gatherings are to be closed j, in Newberry for two weeks begin- v ning on last Tuesday, February 19, e on account of two cases of menin- ^ , gitis in that city. p a A prominent merchant of Chatta- ' nooga died leaving!, Ijiis entire fortune to his housekeeper. His \wife n had already died and there were several children who were left out , f1 of the will. The estate is valued at ^ $300,000. 0 A large flour mill at' Sioux Falls, S. Dakota, was closed on account of ground glass being found in the a flour. This town is the home of a u large number of Germans and Rus- ^ sians. ai " tl The first consignment of machine w ? i !11 L- J_ T guns to tne government win ue uelivered sometime in April. Deliveries from Colt and Westinghouse plants will be made in May. The 2 Westinghouse plant was working on t( 800,000 rifles for the Russian gov- P ernment until the overthrow of the a: Kerensky Government. These ri- 8! fles will probably be used in the training camps or turned over to Bome of the allied armies. ^ n The Jews of Atlanta have pledg- P 4 ed their support in restoring Palestin as a state. t( Camp Gordon is to get Identity ti Tags on February 28. It is the plan j to number every man in the United | 0i StateB Army on the same day. An Bt identifiation number will be assign- 0] ed to every man in the army and a rn tag bearing the same number will t< be given each man. This will help greatly and keep many a soldier from occupying the grave of an .> unknown. g The Georgia farmers are very 111 . yj much interested in whether water- ? T melons will be classed as non essentials or as necessities. They have p w written headquarters asking if cars will be available when they are needed. Miss Sue Dorsey is the most valu- ^ able woman to the government. She y is assistant pay master in the navy. 0< She looks after 1,500 pay officers a and assigns them to their various ?" ships. She knows just how well s< each pay officer does his work. She t( is the only woman that McGowan ever recommended. ? The men in the trenches under hi General Pershing are well satisfied, ai On an inspection trip General Persh- pi ing found them all well contented n and getting plenty to eat. [ tl 2 A negro named Cosby, after attempting to rob the home of Mrs. Elwaney of Fayetteville, Ga., drove g Mrs. Elwaney from the house and sj ran away with the two year old ba- t] by. The baby was found next morn- 0 ing in a briar patch unharmed. The 4 necro was caueht and hune to a 4-1 ^tree near the spot where the baby tj was found. The husband is in the w army. f( Representatives of the management of the majority of railroad lines in the United States see the necessity for more pay for some of \ their employees. This is the state- ^ merit made before the government ^ railroad wage commission in Washington. f The much talked of German drive is expected soon. Sixteen air- c planes were accounted for Sunday s by the British. n / ../"'v. ' ' .. iffiinjiiMimrutHNiiHMMiiHiiiwmiuiimitiwiii.iimiiiiiiiiiiiinimtmtifiniitiimiirtiiiittiiritiiiiiii NtimtmnaimiwMmainuMuniiiiiiiMiuHimmumiiimtuuWnpuriiitntttiiiiiiiiiMiiiintiiiiuiii'- a L NEWS HfiymirauNiiouMnitaiixuiiiMMinliroitimiutiiiiiiiiiiuniiMiiiiimniiHimiiiiuMiiiiuiitiHini. 8 The aims of Wilson are identical nth those 'of Albert Thomas, a i'rench Socialist. He says that it tas been his dream to get an Engish and a French delegation to isit Wilson and tell him of their ,ims. The Sheriff of Ragan County, 'exas, killed James Belcher as he /as boarding a train and then urned the weapon upon himself ,nd blew his brains out. Financial ifficulties is the reason given. Both len were millionaire ranchmen. Trotzky sent a wireless message o the Austria-Hungary officials askng if they are still in a state of ?ar with Russia. Germany did not ven give the Russians the seven ays previous notice. He hopes a ractical agreement can be reached s agreed on at Petrograd. A JtsanKers oynaicate 01 proxment bankers from all over the ountry was organzed in New York or the purpose of financing the luban sugar crop. A loan of $100,00,000 will be provided. . J One hundred American soldiers re convalesing at the base hospital i New York. Their presence here ras not known until it was decided > give a concert for their benefit s the music reacts beneficially upon le shattered nerves of the men. hey were wounded in France. Unless a vote of confidence wasl iven by the House of Commons as > whether Great Britain desires to roceed along lines it has pursued s demanded by Lloyd George he lid h? would resign. \ The Germans are preparing for le big offensive. Big tanks and a ew mysterious gas will be emloyed. Paul Chapman has been sentenced > die in the electric chair some me in April for shooting a Brookrn bookkeeper while he and two there were attempting to rob the ;ore. Chapman is sixteen years Id. He says, "I know myself and ly God knows that I did not shoot > kill anybody." Henry Martini, superintendent of le Citizens Coal Company mine at pringfield and his two sons were iade to kiss the American flag and ere paraded through the streets. hey were. afterwards put in jail to revent any violence to them. They ere pro-German and it would not e tolerated by the miners. ______ i Governor Bickett of North Carone advocates no campaign this ear. He says that the sons of dem:rats and the sons of republicans re falling side by side and going yer the top and that he hasn't the ;omach to stump the state trying ) explain the difference. The big isk is winning the war. Representative Denton of Indiana, as introduced a bill in Congress to uthorize the coinage of 2-cent ieces. The move is backed by ewspaper publishers who hold that le general increase from 1 cent to cents makes the coin necessary. Mrs. Howard Gould in talking to ecretary of Agriculture Houston, lid that she thought the lands of 1C X1CXX OllVUlU UW VU1UVU Hi wv ftkw.Mw . f grain and that women should bej rafted for farm work as well as le men. She continued by saying lat she frequently pitched hay as rell as doing other work around her irm. The hide of a two-headed calf 'as brought to Elberton this week y T. J. Norman. The heads were erfectly shaped and each separate nd complete. The tail protruded rom between the head*. HE JOHN DE LA HOWE SCHOOL The Governor has signed the act reating the John De La Howe chool and providing money for its laintenance. BIG FINANCIAL SCHEME EXPOSED Plan of Abbeville Merchaat to Reap Big Fortune Out of the Fur Business Suddenly Blocked? Paddy Makes His Report. His Report There have been so many secret service men and women around these latter days, so many German spies, and so many common detectives, that being a live newspaper, The Press and Banner conceived the idea of keeping up with the profession by employing an old deteck ot its own, and of turning up something with which the public was unacquainted. We, therefore, wrote to Boston headquarters for a good man to be sent down to us, stating the salary which we wanted to pay, and all terms. We advised that some of the men claimed to be paint sellers and some were writing books, and others were selling books and others playing hoboes, but that we thought none of these would suit us. Being in the printing busi-j ness we thought Lest to have a printer deteck. In a few days we received a letter as follows: Boston, Mass., Jan. 10, 1918. TIiq on^ Ronndr JL 1IV X A Hltu *#MUUVk; Abbeville, S. C/ ' / Dear Sirs,?The chief has just shown me your letter and he think3 I am the man to fill your bill. I do not know whether I can work in u small town or not, but I am willing to make the try.- I have been accustomed to working up cases in big cities and where great sensations; might be unearthed, but as you do not limit me as to kind of information I am to hunt, and are only interested that something be detecked, as you say, I have decided, asvI am going South anyway, to come by and do a month's detecking for you. I suppose I had as well tell you T CmifVi AS T V\ oiTn wily x am uuutu9 ao * uutv nothing to conceal. I have been paying court to a beautiful young lady for a number of years, during which time I have been her only suitor, or I had supposed that I had been the only one, and I gue3S I have. I called on the yo*ng lacy several evenings in the week, and always found her glad to see me and everything lovely and attractive. Of course we expected to be married some day but as no one was rushing either of us, we were taking our time about it. Well, things ran on this way until one night when I went down and found another fellow in charge of the situation. The parlor was lighted up, and I walked in and there I saw my girl in another fellow's arms, and tjhe other fellow in hers. I turned around and went back home to dream of lost opportunities, the young lady and the other fellow however, Deing so busy loving each other that neither had noticed me. I did not go out for some days and when I did not put in my appearance as usual, my sweetheart, as I supposed, sent for me and inquired why I had not been around. I told her of the other fellow as gently as ? - - ? j ?. 1. I could, and to my utter astomsnment she denied the whole thing, denied that there was another fellow, that he had been to see her, and about the caresses. But said I, "I saw it with my; own eyes." "Well," she said, "I say it is not true. Are you going to believe your baby, or are you going to believe your eyes?" That got me a little, and I had to think. Finally I said to her, "Well, I suppose I will have to believe my baby, but I am surely going South for my eyes." Now, that is the reason I am going South, and it accounts for your great good fortune in securing my services to run down some big happening now occurring perhaps right around you about which you know nothing. I will unearth the whole thing and unravel it when I get down there. Look for me. Yours till death, Paddy, the Irishman. The deteck came in on time, and' apparently, and so far as the public knew, he went to work in our printing plant as a printer, but he was J hunting bigger game than the people' knew. He stayed with'us about four weeks and then informed us that he was ready to report on a big "find"j he had made. He had us to pay him off as he handed us the sealed story of what he had found, under -an agreement that the seal was not to be broken for five days after his departure. At the appointed time we opened up the facts which had been detecked, and we give the information, as it was in fact for the public benefit that we brought the sleuth to these parts. Paddy, the Irishman, Deteck. Anything Unearthed. The Press and Banner, Abbeville, S. C. Dear Sirs,?I am "ready to tell you something which will startle the natives from Norris' Creek to Richard Sondley's goat pasture. You have a big man in your town named Calvert. He has made a, big bunch of money selling. wagons, buggies and furniture.- He has had the confidence of the public because he sells fine goods and puts them up in the right kind of packages. He is still in the same business as heretofore as his advertisements in your paper will show, 'but Mr. Calvert has capitalistic tendencies, and since the outbreak of the war whep everybody has been getting rich by going into new and untried experiments, Mr. Calvert has up all the cats east of the Mississippi River and South of the Magon and Dixon's line, as he had learned that the cats in this section have finer fur than some other cats. That is why he took his recent trip to New Orlean^. . Of course he put it out that he was going down there on a visit, and as he has a daughter down there, this story worked pretty well, but he was down there in truth to commence a big buying movement, knowing full well that when he launched the scheme he would be compelled to buy all his cats at once or the market would advance as the people would suspect that cats were getting valuable for sausage, or ' something, when so many were being bought. Then again he had to arrange for the feeding .of these cats, and he figured it out that> there were enough rats in the same section to feed all these cats if he could only get them in hand. His plan, therefore, was to get all the rats under option, and to plan a big movement for catching these rats as needed for the purpose of feeding the cats. He figured that the rats would multiply as fast as the cats and that there would always be feed for the cat? if only he could get all the rats and all the cats sewed up under a proper contract. Now the rats were to be fed too, and he had consulted several horse doctors and had found that by proper training a rat could be taught to eat skinned cats, so his idea was to feed the rats to the cats as they were needed, and as he skinned the cats to get the furs there would be enough cat meat to go around with the rats, if they observed enough meatless days. Of course a great many of the rats were to be left in the livery stables, barn lofts and old houses to live as before until they were ready to be stall-fed for the cats. He said that cats fed or stall-fed rats would have better fui than when fed on common rats, and therefore, it was necessary to sc feed the rats for several weeks before they were finally fed to the cats. Then again the rats woulc enjoy the cat meat a great dea! better, he said, if the cats had beer fattened on stall-fed rats. It was one of the finest scheme! ever worked up and would hav( been a great success, but for the fact that he asked Col. Jim Gillian to go along with him, and in talking of the trip he explained the plar to the Colonel when Poster Cromei UCCU aivuuu XVI. M V..V.? -to make a killing. He at last decided to make a drive. Like most men who get rich, he decided to make his money out of something which has been lying around useless all these days, and which anyone else might have taken hold of if they had had the same capacity for big business. He decided to go into the fur business. Now, Mr. Calvert had been watching the fur market for some time and he saw a rapidly rising market I all the time. He kept advised and knew that the animals commonly called fur-bearing animals were rapidly becoming extinct, and he conceived the idea of making fine furs out of cat hides. His idea was that he would buy was present, though they did not know it, and he secretly told about the scheme to Dick Sondley, who| telling Foster to keep quiet, and he would give him a furniture factory, at once got busy. By night Dick had an option on every cat on Wilson Hill over which he executes, and he had wired to every livery stable in Georgia and Alabama, asking for the best prices on Rats in car load lots. This news getting out the prices on rats and cats jumped skyward, and Col. Calvert after working out the scheme to perfection suddenly saw his chances of a fortune cast to the ground. He has, therefore, determined to k6ep right on in the buggy and wagon business as well as the furniture business, and to continue to give to the pepole of your county some of the biggest bargains to be had as he has alwavs done in the past. He will likely branch out ^gain one of these days, but when he does he will go down on Long Cane fishing and think the matter out in whispers. 4 . ? I should say in closing th'at I told one lady in Abbeville about my trouble with my sweetheart, and two or three days lat^r she informed me that she didn't believe I was telling the truth. I hope no one ,will deny the truth of this report. I know Mr. Calvert will not. I hope there will be no coolness between Mr. Sondley and Mr. Calvert over the matter, and it would be a great misfortune if an unsophisticated liffla VinTT lilra T?nator fTnimir alinrilrf be blamed for talking foo much. If you have any other matters which you want worked up, or if you are in need of a man to work up evidence in any of your cases at any time and I can serve you, wire me and I will come down by flying-machine. Yours for the truth of history, ' Paddy, the Irishman. v . i . v k DUE WEST. V A 'A Due West, Feb. 18.?On last Thursday morning the announce-; ment of the not unexpected death of Mrs. W. A. Markham came to all of our households. This sad death occurred at 12:20 that ^o^ning. This good woman has been very ill for quite a long time and was a great sufferer the past few months. The unwearied devotion of husband and famliy, attention of skilled physicians and ministries of kind friends could not stay the fatal malady. The burial took place at Due West last Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The funeral was conducted by her pastor, Rev. Jas. ;P. Pressly. Dr. FY. Pressly offered prayer and the pastor's address was beautiful and comforting. Mrs. Markham was sixty-eight years old, was born in Laurens county and came to Due West with her parents when in her girlhood. Her father and -mother Tir. on/1 Mrc WutVmri TTfinrv. I WCIC A/1 U11U AVAA0* *! ?? ?* I ^ , Mrs. Markham was a beautiful , Christian character, meek and unas, suming; loved her family and her home. She was married to Mr. W. A. Markham thirty years ago, on I Nov. 5th, and he with three daughters, Mrs. Ballinger, Mrs. Chapman, and Miss Mary Markham are left to ; mourn her loss, also a sister, Mrs. Strange, and a brother, Mr. P. R. ; Henry. i Dr. Oliver Johnson of Winnsboro, is to conduct the annual evangelisj tic meeting at the Woman's College i this year. The meeting begins in i a few weeks and will be held for a ! period of one week. We have not ; yet heard who will conduct the Ersi kine Y. M. C. A. meeting. [ Miss Lucille Kennedy spent last [ week with her parents in Due West. She teaches in the Abbeville school, i which closed for a week's vacation on account of meningitis in that , community. i Lieut. W. L. Brownlee from Camp i Jackson, and Mrs. Brownlee are in ;|Due West for a few days visiting II relatives. They also visited in AnI' derson during their stay. i! The Ladies' Missionary society of | Due West congregation is observing 3 this as the week of prayer and self? denial as appointed by the Union ?! of the Second Presbytery. I Rev. J. P. Pressly goes to First :j Church, Tampa, Fla., to fill the pul1 j pit there for four Sabbath's. His r I pulpit here will be filled during his .; : - - v. \,. . . absence by ministers of the town/;'i?jra^ Miss Mary G. Devlin, who i^>||lal teaching in the High School f?';?jMp9 Greenwood, came up Friday and rj^gffil turned Sa^urd^y. She Was the gued^S^jj of relatives in town. Mr. Sam Lee Waldrop and Mr.'^jlipl Roderick Beard from Camp Sevieiy^stfl spent Sabbath in town and worahip?|B|l ped at the A. R. P. ChurchMiss Annie Baird returned VLpia^BM day of last' week from Cheste^^CT^ where she had been to attend funeral of her brother, Hon. A. $13 Dr. R. M. Kennedy of Newbejcq^a^| a former resident of Due West, one of the delegates to the PrayaHSfr|l Conference held in Due West, lai^^'^j t> j ir if t> m ivev. aiiu iur?. iul. -xv. ruuwu Abbeville, remained a few days .'afr-JgrS ter the Prayer Conference and jy]k|H^9 ited home folks in town. . Mrs. R. L. Robinson accompan^^n:^ '' ' Dr. Robinson and Dr. Stevensott-)raggH?j| Chester to the funeral of Hon.:-?a8^l3 Misa Virginia Edwards came 1pjl|l| from Troy last week where teaching, and spent a few days r^| Mrs. F. Y. Preasly is in Che^^P'^ with Mrs. A. G. Brice for I Mrs. Alpha Davis- Brooks of mB Belton, spent a couple of 'dkyi^j^S^i Due West with her mother, Mr onH Mm Tno Ynntiff WfflnH^^HI down to Columbia Friday night a couple of days visit with ter's mother, Mrs. G. A. BigbyJH J| Mr. James Boyce and Tinkler, the latter of the SemipinSHr^ left last week for Leavenww^^tt, Kansas, to take up work in ft* nal Corps, at that , place. greatly regretted to see them Miss Edna Magill came up Greenwood Saturday and spent, ja Sabbath with her parents, Mr. Mrs. Jno. Magill and worshipped! J38 with the A. R. P.'s.. Mite Magfll sufficiently appreciated so as to ceive a deserved promotion. , f?|g9^| Mr. Olin Brownlee, who has chased the Devlin property on' street, is making some improe^E^I ments on these premises. ' , | Mrs. James Moffatt of Ch|nj9^9 Hill, N. C., is visiting kindred* | Due West She will remain ...Ja for several weeks. Mr. Herbert Gordon of DonaldCS / " is handling th$ fertilizer bnsiiua||B j| at Due West for R. C. Brownlee Messrs. Bell and Ranson, the uniform of Uncle Sam, spen&fH^ few days last week in Due West. A few days ago, Dr. and W. Wideman celebrated/ their marriage anniversary. Dr. A.,S^BH Wideman came down to be preftpra|f vsj Dr. Wideman was 71 years old .tiwt^ a day and Mrs. Wideman was Providence\ has been kind, spaiftralj 33 the lives of Dr. and Mrs. Widemiu^ Jj for so long a time. May they hsffipl >1 many more returns of the anniv6???4 sary wedding day, is the wish o?^^| their numerous friends. Mr. J. B. Agnew of this placf^^H j died suddenly of heart disease. I his home Thursday about 9 o'cIoctaJS&M His death was a real shock to jbraHH family and friends. He was $1 years of age and had been active all.|g?| hsi life. He is survived by his wi<?^'?l ow and- five daughters, Misses TfagMmf ginia Agnew, Elma, Ena, Hattie anm^H Grace Agnew and three sons, Frank'ffjja Paul and Baron Agnew. All of the family were at home for the- : JS funeral except one son, Paul Agnety.JlM j 18 years of age, who is in Franc^-^Sj with the American troops. The eral services were held last Frid^f&aaj afternoon and a number of friendSj^H from Greenville, Honea Path an(^^H Greenwood, were included in laree concourse. The Rev. J. : Prcrsly assisted by the Rev. D&HMt^O] I of Ware Shoals, conducted the fan- I ' eral services. I .COTTON SEED FOR ^>Jj3&| LAST SIX MONTHS Washington, Feb. 19.?Cotton^iij||j| seed received at mills for the sixmonth * period ending January 31st,, amounted to 3,544,509 tons, crushed, 2,707,000 tons and on hand, 70- .'r|s R. A. Riley of Atlanta, and Mr. Moorer of Greenwood, were here *3g|| Wednesday and a part of Thursday / irgj assisting Mr. Anderson and Mr. ; Landell with the Electric Range ||| Demonstration. f