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, f 7 -"V - |xocal i I flewe I v 1 : personals : j awM??g L Mr. Guy Hall of Midway, spent Saturday here having a good time. Mr. and Mrs. William Harder * - - II were here Saturday tor the day. Miss Louise Bell and brother. Ceorge, spent Saturday in the city. Mrs. Lawton Patterson of the Nation, spent Saturday in the city. Harold Peek is here visiting foi awhile. J. F. Strickland was noted on the streets Saturday. Mrs. S. 0. Botts was here for the big rally Saturday. Mr. Rice Ellis of Due West, was noted in the city Saturday. Mrs. Pierce Bowen and children of Santuc, were in the city for the day Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. King of Santuc, were here Saturday. Mr. Mason Wright of Long Cane, spent Friday in the city. j Miss Isabelle Dansby of Bethel, w^s in the city Saturday. Mr. T. S. Calhoun is in Chester 1 attending court. Miss Lila Stevenson was noted " in the city Saturday. Mr. A. T. Mcllwain and Lawrence Mcllwain of Darraughs, were in the city Friday attending to business. Mrs. Barnes and children of Lebanon, were here Saturday for th? great Liberty Loan Rally. Mrs. W. A. Bosdell of near Watts and children were in the city Satur I Miss Bessie Edwards was amonj the attractive young women in th< city Saturday. Mrs. J. E. Peek and baby of At lanta, are here on a visit to hei parents. j Mrs. J. C Ellis has returned tc the city after an extended visit tc I Mrs. W. G. Harper in Charleston. | Mrs. T. H. Botts and children at| tended the Liberty Loan Rally Sat| urday. IMi$s A'nnie Wilson of Little I Mountain, was noted in the citj I, among the young ladies . Saturday. I Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Robinson oi a Due West, spent Saturday in the | I city. i E Miss Lina Mcllwain and Mrs. Q. W. Sims of Central, were here SatH urday. Q Messrs. J. C. and Lucian Nickles of near Hodegs, were here attendI ing the Liberty Loan Rally. 0 Mr. and Mrs. Lester Edwards and I little daughter ot i^edar springs, were in the city on Saturday. Mrs. Jessie Boyd of Bethia, was in the city on Saturday enjoying the day. Mrs. J. C. Raines and Mrs. W. T. Raines of Route 4, were here for the day Saturday. Misses Zula, Minnie and Sara Sutherland of Bethel, were in town Saturday attending the speaking. Miss Rebecca and Daisy McQuerns and their father, Mr. S. W. McQuerns of Hodges, attended the HH Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Cheatham of Sharon, attended the Rally here Saturday for the Third Liberty l! Private John Calvert of Camp I Sevier, was here Sunday. Sergt. Allen T. King of Camp I Jackson, spent the latter part of the f week here with his home people. I, Mrs. J. R. Nickles returned home !; Friday from Atlanta, where she I' went to visit her sister, Miss Lillian i I Nelson, ?_ Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Kennedy of I; Lowndesville, and their two 'daughters, Misses Elva and Lula, were i here Saturday. ; j Mrs. Eain Cochran and Miss Vir| ginla Bosler of Watts, were here ! Saturday. Mr. Foster Seawright and son, ' j Kennedy, of Arborville, spent 'the day here Saturday. J | Miss Pearl Hawthorne, the teachj er of the Edgewood school, was in the city Saturday. Lieut. W. D. Wilkinson o^ Camp ! Sevier, spent Sunday in the city ' j with his parents. He is looking well. Miss Corrie KiHingsworth of Col' | umbia, spent the week-end here with ; her sister, Mrs. Fannie Milford. I .1 ?:? '| Mr. and Mrs. Otto Price and two I children of Santuc, were here Sat| urday. ; j Miss Mary McDill of Sharon, was ; among the pretty young girls in j town on Saturday. ? Miss Ola Winn and her mother, Mrs. J. D. Winn of Santuc, attended the exercises here Saturday. ( Mrs. Albert Power and Miss Allie Mae Power of Brownlees, were here for the day-on Saturday attending ' the Liberty ' Loan Rally. , I . \ \ Mr. Bill Eason and Mr. McDan' iel of the. Birmingham division, spent one night last week with Mrs , T. S. Calhoun. Mr. N. B. Dial, of Laurens, who is a candidate for the United . States Senate, was in the city yes. terday for a few hours. * Mr. J. S. Gilmer of Knoxville, > Tenn., is visiting at the home of his - son, Mr. Roy Gilmer, near Abbeville, and other relatives in the county. t _________ J Mr. and Mrs. Olin Greene and two sons of Greenville, are in the city on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Greene at their home on Church ' street. > Mr. Glenn Kay has returned to , the city from Greenville and will be j with the management of the Opera Hoiise and have complete charge of .' the music. His friends are delight. I ed to have him here again. Mrs. Pink Milford of Santuc, was ! j in the city Saturday for the Liberty r j Loan Rally. She has just returned | from a visit to Mrs. Ollie Muller In Greenwood. Mrs. Lily Connor and daughter, i,,. ~ ... ? I iviiss bailie or near Little Mountain, j in the Prosperity' neighborhood, ! were here for the parade and speak ing Saturday. . j Mrs. Will Graves and Mrs. T. H. '! Watson and pretty Miss Mildred ' Schram Watson came in Saturday j from Sharon on the train. They had | to walk a mile and a half to the i station. The train was late so they missed the parade but they had a ! good time anyway. I , | The names of John Sign and Mar! ion Gambrell, two of our young boys at Lethe, appeared on the Honor Roll of the High School Department. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Lewis have j rented the house of Mr. J. M. Nickj les near Main street and have moved in. Mr. Lewis is here in charge of the affairs of the Carolina Insurance Association. Lieut. Gottlob A. Neuffer, Jr., j came down from Camp Sevier and i spent Saturday night and part of i Sunday with his parents. They returned to Greenville with him taking him up there in their new Buick Six. Mrs. C. M. Winn and children of near Due West, were here Saturday for the day. Mrs. W. J. McKije of near Due West, spent Saturday here with her mother, Mrs. R. H. Cochran. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Bowie of Arborville were here attending the exercises Saturday. Mrs. J. R. Nickles and. Mrs. H. S. Camp are teaching the Arborville school for the rest of vthis term. Mrs. Lizzie Carwile has returned j home from Dr. Pryor's. About eight | weeks ago she fell a-.^d broke her leg. She was taken cer to Dr. Pryor's and is now abfo to walk about by using crutches She is over 70 years old. Her friends 'are delighted to have her back Lome. CONGRESS MAY LAY OFF ABOUT JULY 1 Washington, April 6.?Adjournment of Congress by July 1 was promised in the House this afternoon by Majority Leader Kitchin. "That holds only if we can have a reasonable amount of co-operation, however," he quickly added. "I had been in doubt about what the Senate would beable to do." Kitchin said, "but I have talked with leaders on the other side and they say they can finish by July 1st, if not sooner." ' JUNIOR RED CROSS EXCHANGE. Mrs. W. F. Nickless will conduct an exchange for the: Junior Red Cross on Saturday mroning opening at iO o'clock. JL Several hundred submarine chasers, built since the war, have been delivered to the navy by 31 private concerns and 6 navy yards; many of these boats have crossed the Atlantic, some in severe weather. ABBEVILLE COUNTY LIBERTY LOAN jCELEBRATION The Abbeville County Celebration of the First Aniversary of the entrance of the United States into si the war with Germany, was a success. The only thing to mar the day in any way was the fact that on account of the military situation fli<? Kfws from the camns or the 118th Infantry Band could not get here. Everyone expressed their disappointment in not seeing the boys. The grand parade which formed at the school house was lead by the Calhoun Falls Band, followed immediately by Lieut. D. Townsend I Smith, Sergt. Allen T. King, Privates Bellamy and Van Loam, of our home boys, who were able to come, in Miss Bessie Lee Cheatham's big Buick. Next in order were the Liberty Loan Girls dressed in white with their caps of red, white and I blue. . One of the big horses of the Fire I Department was lead by Chief Wilson. The Surgical Dressings Class was next in order dressed in Red Cross uniforms. An Indian carrying a banner which read "Indians from America are Fighting to Save their CounI try." The Army Mule Banner was carried by a young boy which read, "We are doing our bit, what are you doing?" The school children of Abbeville i and several townships in the county j came next. | The little Red Cross nurses came ' next with their banner. A delegation of the Garden Club was most interesting. There were | about fifty little boys under sixteen I years, who were dressed in blue ; overalls with farm hats. They car| ried their farm implements. The Belgian widows and orphans | were interesting. A large banner , carried by two of the boy scouts which read, "Germany Cuts off the | hands of little children. Let's save | our babies." The lit,tle tots were all under six years old dressed in white with wreaths of flowers oni their heads. They distributed tiny hands cut out of white paper along the way. The senior class at the Woman's College was next in line. The students were dressed in their class gowns and hats. The Bethia Red Cross Auxialiary 'We | I | Last year we | in the summ< == | about those | Winter! gjj* | Hadn't you b I give your on | BEST p We are read} I livery. Dont p - gag I Amo was next with a banner. ? 1 ? 1- L At rne most loucning pan, was tu Lebanon float which represents the popular song, "America Here' My Boy." It was very pretty. The automobiles in the parad were headed bjr Mr. Vic Howie' car in which was the speakers, Hon E. A. Cooper of Laurens, and Pro! E. Marion Rucker, of the Law De partment of the University, and Mr M. T. Coleman, County Chairmai of the Woman's Committee. Th other cars were filled with womei and men and girls and boys an< were decorated wiht flags. an* drapings of red, white and blue They belonged to Mrs. B. S. Barn well, J. Allen Smith, Jr., Mrs. Jo Wilson, J. F. Clinkscales, Mrs. H. I Hill, Dr. S. G. Thomson, Mr. Lewi Perrin, Mrs. lius Lee ana miss* Mar garet Cothran and W. A. Calvert. The people were invited into th< Opera House to hear the speaking after the parade. Mrs. Coleman County Chairman of the Woman'; Committee, under whose auspice; this patriotic celebration was givei made a short talk explaining thi meaning of the meeting. Rev. H W. Pratt opened with prayer. Mayoi Gs.mbrell introduced the speakers The first was Hon. R. A. Cooper 01 Laurens, who talked along the line: of the war and what the Libertj Loan was. His remarks were wel received and enjoyed, The nexi speaker was Mr. E. Marion Ruckei of Columbia, who gave a historj of the war the WHY of the Libertj r Loan. His reasons vjere clear anc well understood. Mrs. Colemai | concluded by saying how the Liberty Loan Campaign would be work ed out in this county by the Wo man's Committee. The band played "America." THIRD LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE AT DUE WES1 Due West, S. C., April 6.?Th< Third Liberty Loan Drive took z running start here Friday night a1 one of the \best mass meetings ir the history of the town. Chairmar E. L. Reid, leader of the Third Loar campaign, made an excellent presiding officer. Prof. Reid had seaiaii I ! y ^ Told Yo > . advised you to I er and youlaugF days you went fitter take our a< t ier for the % JELLICO ( ' , ' V f / f J*.\ V ./* ' .:* . t ' " I a xr to take orders f< w >ut oft. t . ' . >' > f , " 'Sv ' i ' '' . -wM-m / s B. Mori 5 - -T cured speakers for the evening e Capt. Ebb W. Pressly,of Camp Se d vier, Messrs. Barron Greer, and A 8 F. McKissick, Greenwood, S. 0. A] speakers were in fine trim,, an e they were roundly applauded all th g way through. The special musi , for the evening was provided b; ^ solos and choruses arranged b; Miss Mabel Manning Wedge, of th s Woman's College. Miss Wedge' n Battle Hymn of the Republic wa e well received, as was also the Lib a erty Loan chorus of the colleg H SjrIs j At the close of the meeting thi , chairman read out committees con sisting of both men and women, an< e these committees will begin at onc< j the canvass of Due West township g The township quota is $21,000. I seems now that the Third Loan i going to be the most successful om | for this community. Messrs. J. L, Perrin, W. A. Cal vert, and Dr. C. H. McMurray o: Abbeville, met some of the Dm West citizens at the Bank of Du< West Friday afternoon to confe: with them on the prosed Due Wes " | route of the Dixie Highway. Messr j 0. Y. Brownlee, M. B. Clinkscales ] and Dr. J. R. Bell were appointee ! a committee to circulate a petitioi , among the freeholders looking t< 5 7 j the authorization of bonds. 1 Edgar Long, t BIRTHS. r r Born?At Abbeville, April 5 I 1918, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gil II liam, a daughter. I At Abbeville, S. C., March 26, t< - Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ellis, a son. MRS. COTHRAN AT HOME Mrs. Wade Cothran returned tc Abbeville Friday after an extendec stay in Atlanta. Every one is delighted to know that she is greatlj 5 improved in health. i - t BRIDGE CLUB. i The Bridge Club will meet at the i home of Mrs. W. D. Barksdale or next Friday afternoon at 5:30 ad vanced time. I my coal early 1 led at us.How | cold in the I v I tt?5 = t Jvice now and* 1 :oal? 11 dt summer de- J ^ se Co S % DEMOCRATIC CLUBS MEET, -w I p ? L. .The members of the variois /i 11 Democratic Clubs of Abbeville j* J County are called to meet at their * \ - h .1. e respective places of meeting, on c the 4th Saturday of April, 1918, afc ' y four o'cloc in the afternoon, for y the purpose of reorganizing and otf {v e electing delegates to the Comity . ^ 8 Convention. The members of all p* 3 clubs are urged to attend this meet* "/fl ing and take an interest in the see lection of delegates, to the' Coo- v vention to the end that delegates' e representing the views of the vari- ^ . ous clubs may be in attendance oa 4-Vt A P/%TltTfiW ATI * f. j uiu \juunij vuiivcubiuu, B M. J. ASHLEY, L 4-9-3t. County Chairman.1 . t - g GERMAN FACTORIES MAKE WOODEN SOLES FOR SHOES s . I Ij ? " 1 I There are now 180 firms employed f in Germany in the manufacture of s whole-wood soles for new footwear. i with an output of 400,000 pairs r weekly. Beechwood has been chie?t ly used, but any hardwood, with the s exception of oak, will serve equally > well. ' 1 Of the German boot and shoe fac1 tories which were in existence before the war only 400 are now at work; of these 25 per cent are working for the army, administration alone, 25 per cent are employed in connection with the manufacture of \ gloves and similar articles, and the , remaining 50 per cent have the - task of meeting the civilian boot and shoe requirements. ' NOTICE OF CITY ELECTION. The regular City Election for the City of Abbeville, will be held at } the Council Chambers, Abbeville, j South Carolina, on the 9th day of April 1918, from 8 A. M. until 4 P r M. for the election of Six Aidermen, a Mayor and three Commissioners of Public Works for the City of Abbeville. <> Managers of Election?J. , L ! Clark, F. W. R. Nance, T. C. SeaL t C. C. GAMBRELL, . T. G, PERRIN, Mayor. City Clerk. 3-12-4L