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I ESTABUSHED 1844 The Press and Banner * ABBEVILLE, S. C. Wm. P. GREENE, Editor. The Press and Banner Co. Published Every Tuesday and Frida$ Telephone No. 10. Entered as second-class mail mattar at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Terms of Subscription: One year $1.5C Six months , .7E err Three months .01 Payable invariably in advance. Tuesday, May 7, 1918. WELCOME, VETERANS! The Confederate Veterans of th< state are with us today. We, wel come them to the city of Abbeville We shall not again have the pleas use of entertaining the delegate: to a state reunion of these bravi - J and gallant survivors ui mc wumi > great army. Therefore, we should and do, take a great deal of pleas use in undertaking to give to thes< fighting men of Jhe sixties a pleas ant meeting in Abbeville. Though the city is small as com pared with other places where th( veterans have gathered jn their an nual reunions, nevertheless, we hop* that our people will open thei: homes, and more than that, thei hearts, to these men who countet it as nought to die, if opportunit: might be given to you and to me o the South to work out our own des tiny, iney enuureu an wuig., suffered all things, ^nd they fough as men had never fought before, t< make the South free. It took th< hired Hun to defeat them. Th( overwhelming . numbers at th? North, with the great resources o: the Northern section of the country staggered at the blows these mei struck. They were the greatest sol diers the world had seen in tha day. Therefore, the people of thii city, and the people of any city should be glad to have these old sol diers as their guests. They shoulc gather around them to do then honor. They should lose no opportunity to give of the best they ar? able to make this meeting one oi pleasure and pleasant recollection! for the old veterans. We feel sure that the people of the city of Abbeville, where the people were firsl to assert Southern rights, and where Jefferson Davis and his cabinet at last formerly acknowledge*: that the fight was over, a city whicl: -'gave to the Confederacy so manj distinguished officers and so man5 gallant men, will undertake to make our visitors today feel that thej have arrived at the home of thf Confederate Soldier. SOLDIERS ALL. The gallant men of South Carolina are on the way to the front The Hun has denied to this reunited country the "right to be neutral, and the right to be free. The country has called the young men tc arms. The young men of South Carolina have answered the call. Whether they are at ports of embarkation, or on the high seas, 01 -whether they have landed on the other side, it makes no difference. They are on their way to the front. The young men of Abbeville, the first to hear the country's call to arms, are with the rest. They have offered their lives for their coun try. What more can they do? These boys who today are going to the battlefields of France, are the grandsons, and the great-grandsons, the nephews and kinsmen of the men who are our guests today. They are of the same flesh and blood as were the men of the Southern army. As one generation of soldiers is passing, another marches to the front. That-they will be as brave and as true as their forefathers we all know. That they are soldiers of like mettle with them is enough for us to know. When .we honor the men who are with us today, we honor the men -who have gone and are going over* , ' ' *'*'V Vv-'1*. - - seas. As we show these old veterans today that their sacrifice* and struggles for the South are not forgotten we hold out a promise to the young men who are going across that the South still loves its heroes, and that they will be counted as such in the days to come. Lei; us, as we love the boys who hav(j said p good-bye as they go to France, extend to our visitors today t. real welcome. As we would have the soldiers of Abbeville, now wearing the uniform of the country, honored, respected and loved as they look towards the setting sun, so may we honor, respect and love the men I who are with us today, and 'who . only yesterday, as it were, shouldered their muskets and went to do ' battle for their country?old men now, but then the country's hope, > the country's best. n k n/M TV A 3UU 1 n LAlWbitin COTTON CONFERENCE To the Cotton Fanners of South J Carolina: I hereby invite to a conference to be held in Columbia on Tuesday, - May 14, 1918, at 3:00 o'clock P. M. 3 all the cotton producers of South s Carolina and all others interested s in the ginning and the warehousing, ? in the financing and the distribu tion, in the transportation, and the 2 marketing of cotton. These are some of the purposes i nf the nroDQsed conference: "j 1. To formulate workable plans j 2 for the state-wide organization of; the cotton farmers of South Caro-j - lina: for their own protection andj r benefit. r 2. To provide for the formation! of community marketing clubs in j f\ er.ch county of the State?these! f j community clubs to effect a county association, and then all the county ^associations to combine in the for^mation of the South Carolina Cot-,' 5 j ton-Marketing Organization. 81 3. To establish in the oflice of j Jj State Warehouse Commissioner a ej Bureau of Information on. Cotton? f | this state bureau to be in constant '? I touch with a similar bureau at the i county-seat of each county and - each county bureau in daily comt munication with the several community centres of the county. A 3 complete chain of information is to , be formed so that every farmer will - be kept fully advised what is being 1 proposed and done by the farmers i in all the counties of South Caro lina. I ! 4. To arrange for th# grading; f and the stapling of all cotton on! J storage by government experts con-! ! nected with the office of State Ware| house Commissioner?and without I t cont to the owners and holders of [ the cotton. This will enable farm. ers to sell their cotton on certified i and rliforf tr? rnnjuiminfi' I ^xauco ?iiu w**w? ?? ? ???? 0 . i plants, and always at highest mar-j r ket prices. i 5. To promote the development! i by the farmers themselves of thej r South Carolina System of Cotton! i Marketing. This will riot be a meeting fori speech-making, but a business conference of farmers, for farmers,! and by farmers, and of all others who are interested in the 1918 cotton crop. Lot every one who can | attend, notify me at once. You are especially invited to attend. W. G. SMITH, State Warehouse Com. Columbia, S. C., April 1918. j MR. M. W. CUDDY I DIES AT McCORMICK! , Aged Citizen, a Native of Iraland, Passes Away?A Confederate Veteran. McCormick, May 2.?After a short! illness lasting only a few days with! - - - ? * -u,r TTT I bronchial pneumonia, air. beu n. Cuddy died at his home hero on i Tuesday night at the age of seventyseven. Mr. Cuddy was born in Swineford, County of Mayo, Ireland, on March 27, 1841, and came to America in 1843. He lived first at Montreal, Can., for a short while and then went to New Orleans, La., , from which point he joined the Confederate forces when the war between the States broke out and when he was only sixteen years of ; age. He came to South Carolina < upon the surrender of General R. E. Lee and married a Miss Cres- < well by which marriage two child- 1 ren were born, one of whom died 1 $??? .'-.'.'.a (y._ -' w tr- . , _ , a _ several years ago, the other, J. ] Cuddy, who has been serving in tl Army for the past twenty years an is now stationed at Fort Og'lethorj in the Ordinance Department. M Cuddy was married the second tin: to Miss Wideman of this Counl and the only child by this marriag is Mrs. J. J. Dom of McCormicl Mr. Cuddy also leaves one siste Mrs. Margaret O'Connor oJ! Brool lyn, N. Y., W. F. Cuddy ol: Brool lyn, N. Y., and James Cuddy < Montreal, Canada and his wife Mi M. W. Cuddy of McCormick. The remains were laid to rest i the cemetery at Troy, S. C. on Wei nesday afternoon at 4:30, the fui eral services being conducted h his pastor, the Rev. C. B. Betts. Mr. Cuddy was a man of mar fine qualities and numbered h friends by the hundreds. Just a fe days before his death he was see on the street patting the soldiers < their back and wishing that he wi able to go with them to thu war. WOMAN ADMITTED TO BAR OF STAT The first woman lawyer to be a mitted to the bar in South Carolii Miss Julia M. Perry of Gruenvill took the oath in the supreme cc<u rooms yesterday morning and w; regularly enrolled as a qualified a torney. The act admitting wom< to the practice of law in Sou' Carolina was passed at th? rece: _ * xL 1 session 01 trie general tt&seiuuiy. Two others who had taken the e amination earlier in the week we also sworn in: 0. L. Long of Sur ter and Patrick H. Kennedy < Charleston. The averages attain* by those taking the exarninati< were exceptionally high, it was ei phasized yesterday. , Miss Perry studied law at v:he Ur versity of California, where si completed the prescribed cours Since then she has been in the offii of Haynsworth and Haynsworth < Greenville, her home. Miss Pen will continue with this Piedmoi firm.?Greenville Daily News. GOVERNOR MANNING PAYS TRIBUTE TO OUR SOLDIEF (The Greenville Daily News.) < """ - -- ?Ml J __ J l,?. IOU Will uesetvc, ttuu o now iia1 the honor and lasting gratitude < our countrymen," writes Govern^ Manning to the commander of tl 118th Infantry, fonnerly the Fir South Carolina regiment. The lett expresses the sentiments of the. go ernor towards the boys who are g ing forth to fight the great batt for the Palmetto State. It has som thing of the "best of luck" though and is a perfect tribute to tl "pluck, daring and dash" of tl Carolina lads. The letter follows Col. P. K. McCuIly, Headquarters, 118th Infantry, Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. My Dear Colonel: I am in receipt of your telegra and letter, and the message fro Colonel Springs, advising me of tl necessity for calling off the parac and review of our South Carolii troops. It goes without saying thi this is a distinct disappointment ar regret to me and my staff, as we as the families and friends of 01 regiments. Of course, they and understand it, however, and ai satisfied that this course was justifie by the circumstances. Please say to* the officers and me of the South Carolina regimen that I had looked forward with ei ger pleasure to seeing them. Whe these regiments returned from' ft Mexican border, it was with pric and gratification that I reviewe them, and witnessed their militai bearing, and the wonderful reguli of their military training and expei ience. I am confident that the: ?tvai'm'ncr in now pven moi mill La 1J ? marked than ever before. Pleae say to them, that while I am n longer their commander-in-chief, m interest and pride in them are ur abated. I know they have had thei disappointment in not always secui ing the promotions, ets., which the felt they were due, but they hav borne these disappointments as so! diers should, and I commend thei for their respect "for authority, an for accepting bravely whateve :ame to then. It may be that seders to proeee averse** will coae before I can ee them and talk to them again. < Icnow the soul-stirring sentiment .... ?. -"j? ie . id E JL je . f k. r, ^ ^ ? >n T:; i fc '-jBHUnHB d- / la e, rt as iti th! There are many s nt producing machin x- there is only one in rg n-j which Re-Creates n ?*i I is the New Ediso ?d | )n. Phonograph with a . n' ii-( ie io.; Yours faithfull: ce of ry STOVES "?RAN ?l - f . . . ^ ^ /e Lmmhbhmbhbhhhh; af I __ or which fill their breases, I know, and they know, that our cause is just st and right, and that this conviction er grips them in giving themselves to v- this cause, regardless of cost and o- sacrifice. The issue is this .worldle tragedy is, "Shall we be free, or e- shall we be enslaved?" We shall ts fight until Prussian militarism is le crushed, and the world is made a le safe place for" decent people to live : . in. We will win because we are right. Right will prvail, and I confidently look' forward to the day when South Carolina's troops will share in the victory over the Hohenzollern and the Potsdam gang, m when through suffering and sacrim fice our honor and self-respect will le be maintained. You will ..deserve, le and shall have the honor and last1a i ing gratitude of your countrymen, at We, your friends and families, all id wish you God speed. We will follow ill -you in thought and deed, and our lr prayers will be with you now and I always. On a foreign soil you will re I eo as representatives of America. sd It will be an. inspiration to our allies that Americans, brought up and I in surrounded by an atmosphere of libts erty and freedom, stand for the a- ideals of honor and truth, and that in the sanctity of our women is held ie inviolable. Our allies will judge le you by your acts. They will witness d your courage and daring in battle; y let them also see your virtues in ts j your private life, and in your charr acter. You have the spirit which ir animated our fore-fathers of 1776, e and that spirit which carried us iej through Brandywin'e, Valley Forge o j and Yorktown will carry us through y! this war. Our patriotism if burnj ing with a new light, for we are ir fighting, not only for liberty, but r- for America, for our homes, for the y safety of our women and children, e and for justice aild righteousness ' - I- in the woria. n In this war there will be two d armies on our side, one on the firing r line, and one supplying the food, arms and ammunition, equipment d and clothing for you who are on the t battlefield. We will rely on you who I will do the fighting; you may rely b on us who cannot be with you on V ; ' . . v ... ?5 :Disor ggp You would go mile m sing "The Star Spai |f Arthur Middleton sir It has been proved Rlic that their magnifi< |J ally Re-Created by tt I that their voices cann the New Edison's R when heard iii direct < very anxious to have Creations. We are si ate them. ? H||| \ \ GES HOME OUT f firing line to stand fast and support you. We will'send ou all the material things you will ijeed; we will send you reserves, and above all, *-- V?AW 4-1* r* 4- TtTA qm our pray CI B. Uliun wu? nv tuv proud of yon; that our eyes will be upon you, that we will cheer for you and applaud your deeds of bravery, and deeds of chivalry, as you stand fast, fighting for us. Do not think of us as repining. We glory in your pluck, your daring and dash, and we will love to think of the glorioiis day when you will bring our enemies to their knees and lick the Kaiser and his Potsdam gang. After that is done, with glory and honor, marching under our flag? the emblem of our unity, our power and our aims and ideals, you will come back home. Then your countrymen will stand on the shore with open arms, and with eager, enthusiastic acclaims, take you to our hearts and bosoms, as the heroes of the greatest war, in the greatest cause, that has ever been recorded in history? God bless each and every one of you. Yours sincerely, ' '' RICHARD I. MANNING, Governor. 200 REGISTERED MEN TO STUDY AT CLEMSON COLLEGE Draft Boards Throughout Stat* Directed to Complete Entrainment of Grammar School Graduates for Special Courses on May 16. - -1 1 Two hundred grammar scnooi graduates in South Carolina are to be entrained by local exemption ] boards throughout the State on May : 16, for Clemson College, to receive < a course of training at government expense, according to bulletin num- , ber 69 being sent out Thursday to . draft boards by Capt. R. E. Carwile, ] officer in charge of the selective ser- , vice regulations. Qualified restraints _ should be urged to present them- j selves for voluntary induction, de- , clares the bulletin. \ TV*, annortionment announced calls upon Abbeville County to furnish three men. Only white men i and men physically qualified for gen * ^ '.vji-, -'"J . ;.: *3 m i .4 y;m ** , s to hear Anna Case lgled Banner" and ig "America." * ..' IX m^ny times in.pubsent voices are literle New Edison and * ot be detected from e-Creation of them . comparison. We are ;-'v . < you hear these Re * / *" ire you will appreei- * , .. . ? < ' % ?a&*JE^ I 'Me Ce:$&& I FITTERS 7>S0lGH eral military service may be indncted v^H under this call, says the bulletin*if Men selected for this service will . flj receive a course of training at government expense,' fitting them to serve in army positions requiring1 ^Bj knowledge of automobile repairing, blacksmithing, carpen?ary, electrici- ^Hj ty and othe^ mechanical duties jacident to many kinds of military ser- HH vice both at the front and behind the lines. The men receiving this course will receive thorough in-^ ^Bj struction which will be of great personal value in working their way ahead both in the army and in civil HH life. "This is ah exceptional opportunity for energetic, ambitious men," says the bulletin. The period during which registrants may volunteer under this call HH will continue May 8, and on that hH date the boards are to telegraph the I I State headquarters the exact num ber of volunteers secured. j^MH Each man must carry with him at^^H least two suits of underclothing, oneHjfl suit of outerclothing in good condition, a sweater, a stout pair of^^H shoes, three extra pairs of socks, HH| and two bath towels, as he will befl^H kept in civilian clothes during the^^H first three weeks until he ^an be snp-^^H pled with a uniform and other cloth-^JH ing. $15,000,000,000 ONLY Hj PART OF ARMY NEEDS^HJ Washington, May 3.?&ecretarj^^^H Baker's estimate of $15,0O0,O()O,OOO^^H| submitted to the House military af^^H| fairs committee in connection L?- ? ?/)no? nnt hv am war pivgicwu, v?vww ..v.y represent the entire cost of waginf^^^H the war. The Secretary made plain this afternoon that this a^JHfl mount will be needed only to rais^^^^D and maintain the augmented ..arm^^^H he has in mind. Another appropri^^^H ation bill running into the billionf^^^H for coast artillery and heavy gun^^^H for use both here and abroad, als^^HH (Till be introduced by the fortifiea^^^H Lions committee. Mrs. W. H. Murray of Kinard^^^^M ? spending several days at Sharo^^^H with her home people. ' II