Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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] Xocal 1 | flews | | : Personals : | Miss Grace Link is spending a while at Wrightsville Beach. Mr. J. U. Wardlaw was in town Saturday. i I Frank Kerr of Bradley, was in town Saturday. Mrs. Eva Ashley and daughter,! Claudia, were in town Saturday. Miss Mary Bell of Latimer, was in town Friday. Miss Agnes Edwards returned from Winthrop Saturday. Mr. E. H. Young of Atlanta, was ' here Monday for the day. ' Mr. Herman Yoder of Camp Sevier, spent the week-end with his brother, Mr. Clyde Yoder. . Miss Georgia Edwards of Warej Shoals, spent Sunday with her home folks. , , Miss Mary Kay and brother, Clar-| * in fnTTTTl ence, irom oaiiuuc, wcu m w??? Friday. Mrs. P. B. Speed returned from Pryor^s Hospital Saturday, where she went to have her arm treated. Misses Sara and Mary Haigler are visiting in Athens, Ga., ( this week. __ * Mrs. Alph Lyon and children spent Sunday in Due West with the formers parents. Miss Boyd, Welfare worker at . the mill, spent the week-end in' * Greenville. .......... j > , i Mrs. Reames and Mrs. C. B. Hipp went over to Greenwood Saturday to do some shopping. I Miss Eva Link went to Columbia i Saturday to see her brother, Arthur Link. Miss Eva Reames went up to Anderson Friday and spent until Sunday with relatives and friends. i Col. Pat McCaslan spent several days this week in the city with his sister, Mrs. B. S. Barnwell. Mr. J. R. Glenn and Francis Gleen are in Woodstock, Ga., visiting relatives. Miss Kathleen Wilkes is here from Laurens the guest of her sister, Mrs. J. Moore Mars. Mr. Clyde Murchison of Greenville, spent Sunday here with his sister, Mrs. D. A. Dewey. Miss Eleanor Todd spent Sunday with Miss Ruth McLane and worshipped with the A. R. P's. F Q Will onfl F S Tr rs. IiU l O. 1 . Aim M11U jl w. v*?y * V turned home Friday from a visit to Thomasville and High Point, N. C. \ Miss Lola Wilson of Anderson, visited at the homevof Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Stark this week. Miss Eva Burns of High Point, N. C., is here to spend the summer with Mrs. Fred S. Hill. Miss Ruth Howie is at home after an extended stay at Blueridge, N. C., where she went to attend a College Conference. Mrs. J. W. Nichols is at home after three weeks spent pleasantly in Macon, Ga., with her son, and at Indian Springs. Giles McLane was at home for Sunday. He holds a responsible position as express messenger on the Seaboard and has a good run. Mrs. James A. Hill went over to brppnwood shoDDine one dav last KHweek. She was driven over by AnIBsBB H INTERESTING LETTE SOI Of From Lieutenant Carroll Swetenbur j HAPPY IN FRANCE, THOUGH H WANTS CANDY, CIGARETTEf AND PAPERS FROM OLD ABBEVILLE?IN UNTIL THE FINISH. ' Lieut. Carrol Swetenburg, wE was among the first of the Abbevil boys to go overseas, has'written h home people two or three brigh cheerful letters. In a letter writtf on May 19th, he says: "This is one nice day in Ma which reminds me of a pretty Sui day in April over there. We ai lucky enough to get a few hours t day and, of course, our though wander back home, and we wondi what you are doing back there. "W know you are thinking of' us also. * 1 xT i. _ mere is not mucn news mat, v can write. Every thing has to t censored. I know you have receive my first letter but I am sorry to ss I have not heard from you yet. am expecting a letter the latti part of the week. We are kept pretty busy. TV never think how We are, so long s we can move an inch and as I a: still going and going all the tin I guess I am all right. So don worry but just write and send n a piece of candy once in a whil My cigarettes are out and as tl ones I asked you for have n< come, I guess I will just quit. We are living a real soldier's li: these days ana every one seems i be getting fat so you see it is great life. Have not seeq anyone here y from home except some negroi when I first landed^ I do not kno where the other boys are, or wh; regiment they are in. I guess I should be able to wri a book about this country, but e erything in the country is connect* with military information. The wi has been going on so long and i seems now that it will last uni we are able to finish it. All of you write some time ai ' remember I am thinking of you a all the time. Don't worry abo me. * Send me the papers. I have n seen one in so long, I would n I know how one looks. With love, Carroll. i , j From Hubert Cox, THE STORM KNOCKS THE BO ! TOM OUT OF PRICES AND OU1 OF HUBERT TOO. News from our boys who ha' 'gone overseas and have definite j embarked on their great adventur |has been eagerly looked forward^ Hubert Cox has written his moth from mid-ocean and friends of tl young man and of his family w read with pleasure his charming le ter. "Somewhere on the Ocean." May 21st, 1918. | My Dearest Mamma: : x am just guuig ia> wine a nv I now and when we land I will wri ! a long letter. The censorship is i J stringent until it makes news a vei scarce# article. Our trip so far h; not been a very pleasant one. "W j have been in an ocean gale for tl last three or four days. I thir every soldier on the ship has bc< sick. I never was so sick in all n ; life as I'was the other day but I feel a good deal better now. I This good old boat has geen roc ing some . I was back in the kitchc , the other day and saw a fifty galk pot of tea jump off of the stove, i you can easily imagine just ho rough the sea has been. It has bet a rather hard matter to get an tViinc A/tnlrprf. or rather it was du ing the gale. I saw soldiers pj ten cents apiece for nabiscos. 1 home they sell for fifteen cents box. One of the boys came to n and asked me did I have anythir to eat. I sold him a can of poi and beans for twenty-five cents ar thought I was getting a very go< price for it. Before he had gott< out of my sight he was offered fr RS 'FROM !| OUR BOYS OVERSEAS] ' i dollars for the one can. I also saw | sandwiches sell for a dollar and cof- | j j fee for twenty-five cents a cup. | ? A good many of the Abbeville j g' boys are on this ship. I think most j j j of them are doing very well aside J from all being a little sea sick. ? I will close until we land. Now : I i don't worry about me one bit for j ! you know that I always have been<? 10 able to take care of myself and get. ]e along very well. With lots and lots js 1 of love to all, I am, _ ! t | Your devoTed son, |! in j Hubert, j J j " . !! v From Charles Haigler j y' j ! I "e CHAS. A. HAIGLER, JR., WRITES'[ INTERESTING LETTER TO HIS I tg" HOMEFOLKS. FRENCH RAIL- ,1 ar ROADS ARE SMALL BUT | r"e LIVELY. GIVES ADVICE | CHAS. A. SR., THE "CAN- [ i i: IMUIN MUPiaiRfi. I j April 4th, 1918. j Dear Mother: i| I am still in the hospital but get- i ting on nicely, so don't worry or I j think that I'm very sick. I guess ( j my transportation will be arranged 11 soon and I'll be sent back to my!| *s squadron. I've had something likejj m grip, but am not very sick. I've also'j had a good bed for the past weekjj 't and since they seem to be rather Jj j scarce in the army I expect I'll hate | e. J to leave, then you know the nurses^ have been rather irice too. I'll be ! Dt glad to get back to the old squadron though. 11 fe We certainly are having some finej* to weather, it rains often but is surejl a fine when the sun shines. I expect!I I'll be getting my trunk out soon S et and be figging down for my old | BS Palm Beach suit. If it is not the | - .... . ! I w latest cut Uncle Sam will Have it | at altered. j I would like to visit old Abbeville te now, or just ever read The Press jj v- and Banner, so give Mr. Greene myjj address and tell him to send it j ar | along. The news will be old when j _ ft i I get it, but it will from the U. S. i i A. and Abbeville. ! j April 17, 1918. h Forrest Clary is still here, so we j have seen the city together and it ( Qt certainly has been pleasant to loaf i, with 'someone from your own home 1 town. !! I get to see more of France and), the French people every day and 1 its all very interesting. I wishj, 9 Papa could come over here and seej some French railroading. It would j. 1 be interesting and helpful. They | J have good roadbeds nnd tracks but J, the cars and locomotives are certain^ ly old types?are between one-1 fourth and one half the size of Am- j erican types. When it comes to ' ve' switching they have the U. S. beat ^ all right. They have rails on a plate> form mounted on wheels and rails 1 so that it can be pushed from one ?r track to another or even clear ae across the yard, similar to bur turn 1 tables. So you see the cars can be 1 placed on the platform and pushed, | to apy track desired without so! much changing switches. These cars j ^ are so small they can be pushed by: j man-power and often they use a j ^ horse to pull them. te i May 12th, 1918. 30 I am glad to get back to the oldj | i T, 485th, and I've been working (easy) j as|for most ten days. I am still get-1 j ,e ting on fine and getting as much to! { J ( lej eat as a soldier could expect. ^ Tell Aunt May not to worry, as'. Jn i I never forget to put on my rain-j Wjcoat before going to bed. Some of j j r these barracks leak a little (like a;^ | sieve) and this is some country forj k- rain. They call it Sunny France, j Jnibut it rains every day. I am just >nj teasing about my coat but this is; s >o; certainly a damp country during; f w the spring. We can get plenty of 1 in! tin or tar paper roofing to cover our j y-, barracks, so if I haven't energy j r-1 enough to cover over my bunk, then ( | # I *y< it would serve me right to get a lit-, c ^ t.tle sprinkle. You can bet my bunk t a is covered (I never was lazy.) We ie! have double deck bunks and-1 sleep j ig' in the top one, so you see the fel- j s rk i low under me had little to worry, it' 1 id'was up to me. I couldn't stand for, ( >d; the rain to soak through my straw j} ;n mattress and blanket just to get j t /e|him. You might try Papa'on a bunk I g I - N - f It b I C? f! fi CONCERTED jj nation of interests fi of desired ends mo jc r Community inte n of all the citizens ] v scientious support fj well-meaning offi( 5 The spirit of co the stores of any ( it denotes a prospi show progress, th< of the people; and operate with the p better service than or distant commun This store stand: ing its best to keep bigger, brighter ar 1 The J "I F DRY GOC ; no' j r MILLI: 1 ' 1 3 M?JiIfilli!nifiil?Ji!JiU!IZJE Df this kind for a few days, it may nelp his appetite and you could Hfooverize a little and too, it would ?et him in practice, for to hear he ^nd Mr. Clary talk it wasn't much use to send Forrest and myself for they would finally have to come and settle things any way. A little advice from Chas. A. Jr., ip to stick to the old ride to Atlanta and back and keep away from "any chow?" There's always something to do, when we are not busy the Y. M. C. A. has some kind of entertainment and the weeks fly by. May 26th, 1918. The feed in* this army life does fairly well, so I'm getting along all right and as to health, I am really better than when in civilian life. I wish you could see me in my . "fatique suit" (soiled hands and face) it chow some of these evenings. It don't get dark until nine-thirty these nights. It seems funny to think that when we are going to oed you all are just about finishing iinner, about six hours difference in the time. My last home letters only took :wentv-four davs to come. I have lot seen a Press and Banner this sveek but g'uess I'll get some copies soon. You write that since you didn't inow where I was you would think >f me as being in Paris. Well, since :he "Cannon Monstre" has been firing on that city for nearly a month, *uess you will be glad to know that !'m not in Paris and as yet haven't ;ven been to see the city. Chas. A. Haigler, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Marchant md children, of Greenville, spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. P. 3. Speed. 7 Lieut. Ezekiel Major, of Camp Gordon, was the guest for the weekend of friends in the Monterey sec Sergt. Albert Rosenberg spent [ :everal days this week at home with lis people. He has been moved from ]amp Jackson to Sevier and says lis only worry now is that some-! ;hing will happen to him before he jets into the big fight. aEffijyyafiFtiKLiSyaii -OPERATI iff l III effort always brings re along any line makes tl i rally certain (rests are dependent upc living in the community. of all, the efforts of tb rials would fail, operation is invariably community. When the st 9rous, contented, satisfi< 3 store must have the sup to deserve that support eople, and give them as they can possibly proci ities. 3 for co-operation in eve the tradg at home, and id better. J . M. Anders( A.DING IN LOW PRIC >DS?CLOTHING?SHi HONS?READY-TO-W Mrnv orrnwn n r\f HLAI i WV ABBEVILLE, S. C. Mrs. Joseph W. Everett and Miss Mary Lawson Link came down from Spartanburg and spent Thursday and' Friday with Mrs. W. D. Wilson. Mrs. Thos. Pope and her handsome young son, are in the city on a visit to Chief Justice and Mrs. Eugene B. Gary. Miss Katherine Faulkner left Friday for Cross Hill, where she will visit for a while fwith her friend, Miss Ruth Beeks. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller, Mrs. C. M. McKenzie and Miss Lillian Richey spent Sunday at Breezewood * with Mrs. B. A. Hunter, i ?? Mr. and Mrs. John White ' went ; over to Chester Saturday, the lat[ ter going to Dr. Pryor's hospital for ' treatmet. Misses Claudia Bell and Grace Donnald of Due West, are the ati tractive guests of Miss Helen EdI wards. ' , Misses Annie Lee Hagen and Ethel I Russell and Messrs. Corley and I Speary motored over from Clinton j and spent the day with relatives and : friends Sunday. Mrs. John Norwood, who is spending the summer in Greenwood, came J over last Thursday and spent the : day with Mr. and Mrs. Lewis PerI vi'r> Mrs. W. A. Harris and Miss Louise McDill went over to Green! wood Friday. They looked in the j shop windows, had lunch at the tea rooms and "burned 'em up" back home. Sam Adams came home on "leave this week for the first time since he enlisted in the big fight. He is stationed at Camp Wadsworth and wears his uniform like a veteran. Miss Ivy Calhoun, who recently took charge of the Carnegie Library at Greenwood, has given up this J work and will take a civil service position under the Government in Washington. ipinnnpirinnnnnfim JIJULIUJJUUUMIJUU | 0N l| J l! -J suits. The combi- H; fie accomplishment S j I il >n the co-operation * i Without the con- * 1 Le most energetic reflected through ! j ore shows progress j J "V /I VkAVMI 1 n+i/Mn l> -u yuyuiatiun. xu 5 1 >port and good will 11 , the store must co- | j good values, and j! ire in neighboring ijE, M I j ry sense. It is do- jj . 1 make this town g 1 n ?r'JI into, i i :es." 11 oes?hats i j ear | j :'m Miss Margaret Klugh and Miss Mary Klugh are at home for the summer vacation, after a success ful season of teaching; Mia? itargaret in Columbia and Miss Mary in Union.. v*4 C ______ Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hilton anfl family of Abbeville, were guests yea terday of Mrs. T. M. Miller.?The Journal. ^ Two trains of colored soldiers ani one of white soldiers passed eastward Sunday aftemonn. The ladiei of the Abbeville Canteen, were on N hand to cheer and refresh the travelers to the front. . Mrs. Jas. A. Hill and Miss Juditfc Hill left Monday morning for Chattanooga, where they will visit Mis. Henry DuPre for some time. O Miss Margaret McCord, one of the telephone operators, is enjoying a' two weeks vacation. She will visit relatives in Greenville. ? ? '.:;l LIBRARY NEWS. /-P The library will be open during j the summer months on Tuesdays and | Friday mornings from half past nine ! till twelve o'clock. Notice is given that books taken ' j out for one week and not returned, j must be renewed or a fine of two i cents a day will be charged. The follqwing books have been received: Major?by Ralph Connor. ! When a Man's a Man?H. B. Wright Snlt nf thp F.arth?Sidcwiek. i " - o I Happy Valley?John Fox. J The Dark Flower?Galsworthy. | My Four Years in Germany?Gerard j Private Peat?Peat. 1 Outwitting the Hun?O'Brien. ! The Iron Ration?LeGalliene. | Huckleberry Fin?Twain. | The Tree of Heaven?Sinclair. Ruggles of Red Gap?Watson. Somewhere in France?Davis. In the Wilderness?Hitchens. Great Heart?Ethel M. Dell. Mr. Britting Sees it Through?Wells The Yankee In the Trenches. ???