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Abbeville Press and Banner $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., T?e.d?y, Dec. 3, 1918. Single Copies Fl.e C..B, 75.1, Y^. pOADS SECURE iflMENSE AMOUNT ler Half Billion DolIrs Advanced by the I Government. I WITHIN EIGHT MONTHS Htor General Issues Statement Rowing Help Extended Count* Hrv'a Lines Under It? Control n During Eight Montlu I Just EndedL Hishing-ton, Dec. 1.?More than *000,000 has been advanced by ~ ?A OVt/1 I ovenuueill, VU tuc lomuaus OUU portatibn lines under its control g the eight months since the iad administration has been in ,tion. ector General McAdoo announoday that $515,206,536, includ>ans and payments made to railcorporations to meet their needs >een advanced for operating deand payments on account of the standardized equipments, from , ? V V ; 1 to December 1. From the 000,000 involving fund set aby congress, $316,206,546 was i and the remainder came fromi 383,524 surplus earnings of cerailroads and the American RailSzpress Co. member advances amounted to 39,461, and the surplus earnnnied in were $4T;646,069, ing $10,422,968 from the Amertarilway and Express Company, re than 55 per cent, of the adi in the eight months went to systems. . SATH OF A. B. HAMLIN. A B. Hamlin died at his on Upper Main Street Friday last, 29th, inst. Mr. Hamlin it been well for several months as injured Several months ago fUTionoir Iiama ?t |kwu??n??j auu xvi ov/iuc j e was not expected to recover, er, he gradually improved and ten able to be about recently. ' afternoon he went out to look the feeding of his stock, and lave died suddenly, as his body >und afterwards. He had been For some little time when the aras found. No marks of any were upon his body. Hamlin was a familiar figure Seville for many years. Coming from the upper part of the r, he engaged in the stock ? and for. a long time was in J KUivia? T* -1. v:_ j? 1 xv WVJIV miii ' uv every; flha county, and he was per-} Hfcne of the best known men in! ^ninty. Some years ago he re|Hfrom business in Abbeville, ^Bened a stock business in Mo k. He followed this business Hftbout a year ago, when his HbegaotofaiL Hfeamlin was 76 years of age at He of his death. He" married-a Jflppp, of-:the-upper section <ft MBanty..: 3he preceded him to ^Btve okly a few months. He is BHd by ;S& childnm, Mrs: E. A. u, Miissea Corrie and Rosa ,and Measrs. Wade, Charlie M<e Haml^ ^Kral services were conducted I noose on* Sunday afternoon at ck, aftd the interment was- in e immediately afterwards, rvices were conducted by Rev. | Pratt, of the Presbyterian IETTING PROMOTED. W. E. Gladden, who entered! # I ervice some time ago, has! romoted to Chief Electrical | or at Camp Jackson, and is good in his new position, adden lived at Abbeville unpntly, having charge of the al work at the mill for the Electrical Co., of Anderson, hade many friends while here hi be pleased to know of his PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES DELEGATES FOR PEACI Lansing, White, House and Blis With Woodrow Wilson?Name of General Brings Surprise?American Representative on War Council at Versailles. Washington, Nov. 29.?The repre sentatives of the United States at th< peace conference will be: President Wilson. Robert Lansing, secretary of state Henry White, former ambassadoi to France and Italy. E. M. House. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, representa tive of the American army with th< supreme war council at Versailles. ** This announcement was made Fri day night at the White House. In th? ? ?/wr>1 nnnfiAn il dusciicc ui any uiuv^iai cAp;aiiotivii| n was assumed that the president goes as the president of the United States and that Secretary Lansing, "iSr White and Colonel House and proh ably also General Bliss will be dele gates with ambassadorial rank. It was recalled that the president's announcement that he would go tc "^rance "for the putpose of taking part in the discussion and settlement of the main features of the treaty o1 peace" said that it was not likely thai he could remain throughout the sea sions of the peace conference anc that he would be "accompanied bj delegates who will sit as the repre sentatives of the United States throughout the conference." The White House announcement Friday night follows: "It was announced at the execu tive offices that the representative) of the United States at the peac< conference would be: 'The president himself, the aecre tary pf state, the Hon. Henry White recently ambassador to France; Mr Edward M. douse and Gen. Taske: H. Bliss. It was explained that it had no1 been possible to announce the ap pointments before because the num ber of representatives each of th< chief belligerents was to send hat until a day or two ago been undei discussion." White House officials would adt nothing to the formal statement, an( no one professing to be in the confi dence of the president would talk There was only one surprise in th< statement^?the appearance of th< name of General Bliss as one of th< representatives. GETTING MUSTERED OUT. Arthur Link has returned to Ab beville after several months spent il the army. He went to the Officer Training School at Camp"' GordOl and was recommended'for "a commla sion just at the coming of peace. He will not serve now but shouk war come again in the next five years Arthur will be on hand as i s/ HV^wfllfemiitre bis work in thi post office^-atid patrons of the plac< wittfce j^ii'^'to see him at his accum toitt^d *?*!$ 71- NEWS FROM OUR BOYS. I,,; - _____ The latest^ news-feom John Calver h thai he %has fulljr recovered and ii back With his 'A Company. Mr. Duck worth, who was gassed at the sanu time/remained In the hospital whei To)mv left, Hut was rapidly improv ing. In one of . the last letters t< his father John stated that he ha< seen Hubert Cox and that he was a: fat as ever. BAPTIZING THE BABIES. An interesting ceremony of Bap tism was held at -the Presbyteriai church Sunday at half past thre< o'clock and two little children of Mr and Mrs. J. Allen Smith, Jr., one o Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cheatham, th daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hil! and the infant of Mr. J. C Thomsoi were baptized by Rev. H. W. Pratt. Mr. J. J. George of Calhoun Fall was among the business visitors her for salesday. : SHE KEPT THE LfjHKOy/miCL ? * 55i25v My ^gQgg^m 1B^ ^PBaS^y : HOMING OF ; FOUR DIVISIONS b | General March Tells of j Troops Soon to Leave jj France. i| p' ? i iiiv nrutn i tmitc rann 1 i/inbi\ unii J INCLUDED IN LIST I ' General Pershing Forwards Selections for - Early Return to United States?South *CaroIina Soldiers Not to Move This ' Time. a Washington, Nov. 30.?Four divisions in their entirety and major units of eight other divisions of the American army in France have been designated by General Pershing for an early return home. These troops .with other special units soon to return, General March, chief of staff, announced today, total 8,451 officers j and 79,663 men. The complete divisions which will return at an early 5 . date, General March said, are - tho ^ 9avmtv.ci'Tf)i f!io4)tv. seventh "and -Ninety-second. Important elements of the following divisions to return as soon as transportation facilities are available are the Thirty-first, Thirty-fourth," Thirtyeighth, Fortieth, Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, Eighty-3ixth and Eighty t eighth^' I New figures on the American army . casualties announced by the chief of ?1 staff, showed a totel of 262,693, exi elusive of prisoners. The total which _ exceeds that made public a week ago >!by 28,000 covers all losses to Novj! ember 26. The principal change in 3! the revised list is the addition of 13,! 100 men missing in action. General ! Pershing, it was said, has thus far "orwarded no explanation of the increase under this heading and it was . assumed that an error occurred in i the transmission of the previous fige ure. General March explained that >. the revised figures on prisoners could f not be deciphered in General Pershe ing's message. i,! ! Messrs. Walter and Grier Sherard went over to Atlanta last week and took in all the sights of the wicked i, city and incidentally, bought a cai e and came home through the countrj in it. ;m on the job k y - mmfiri I rj^2B^('^if!l^jBf lw IIII rHUn I 1 DOCKS AT HOBOKEN ! ^ ^WWNDS)| Hospital Ship Arrives! With Eleven Hundred Men. < MANY ARE SEVERELY HURTi! l] Work of Removing Wounded Soldiers j ' to HoapitaU Wai Begun Sunday } 1 I f ?Men Who Helped Pay the Inevitable Price are ' Coming Homo. New York, Dec. 1.?The men who helped pay the inevitable price of J victory in the great war are coming1 ; home, but there will be no parades for them, no march down Fifth Ave-; nue, or any other avenue between j' lanes of cheering hero Worshippers. I' The hospital ship Northern Pacific! docked at Hoboken tonight with 1,-}' 100 wounded sbldiers and marines j' - A m ni_ _ I I on board, including 4U omcers. one steamed slowly through the narrows ^ after dark hours late because of ( heavy head-winds. j - : ; . : I ( For the returning heroes there; was,. one of the martial pomp which sent H hem away* A few of the. "w'alkirtgj wounded" lined the rail as the vessel/ came abreast of the Statute o? Lib-7 erty and there'was a feeble cheer as'j J Bartholdi's'emblem of freedom wel-i corned them to the harbor. On the I ^ way in they passed the giant Mature-! ^ tania, at anchor in Gravesend Bay, | ^ crowded with the troops returning , from camps in England. Five hundred of those aboard the Northern Pacific are badly woundedj^ but most of the others were able to J ^ hobble about the ship on the voyage , across. 11 J The work of removing the wound- f , ed to hospitals will begin at 8 o'clock; 1 ?? ???? TUa DA/1 P*nofl Luinurruw muniiug. nic iv^u viwuo Has mobilized every available ambu-j | lance to carry them. MAIL CARRIER SICK. } ' i Mr. Sam Evans, one of the cityj mail carriers is sick at his home on', [! lower Main street with the influenza, j 11 Mrs. Evans and their family of chil-j I dren are also on the sick list. Their, i ! friends hope they will all improve r and soon be out again. Mr. Evans is quite sick. CHARLESTON NAMED PORT FOR SOLDIER! Even With Everything Moving 01 Schedule Last of. Men Overseas Will Not Reach Home Before October, According to Careful Estimates. Washington, Nov. 30.?Boston New York, Newport News, Va., an< Charleston, S. C., are the ports thi war department now plan for us< for the return of the army from ov erseas. Even with this wide distri bution of the strain on port facilitie: and transportation however, . ant with German ships now idle in Ger man harbors employed on the task careful estimates show that the las of the army could not possibly reac) the United States in less than eigh months. Conservative calculationi iinnn which nrenaratinns hv the de partment probably will be based, fix ed ten months as the minimum. $ These estimates have been mad< wholly on the basis of the physical difficulties to be overcome and do no! !ake into consideration the question if the retention in Europe for som? ;ime of an American force whicl nay be agreed upon at the peacc :onference. If the return movemenl ilready in progress is continued al tall speed, the last division in al] probability, could not reach the Unitid States before October, 1919. METHODIST PASTORS ASSIGNED FOR YEAR Chester, Dec. 1.?-The fourth an< lual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which hac >een in session at i;nester since wea< lesday morning, closed tonight aftei ;he reading of the ministerial appointments. This has been pronounc>d the most notable annual conference ever held in South Carolina it ;he amount of constructive worl ione. The pastoral appointments follow Anderson District?Presiding elier, G. C. Leonard; Anderson, Bethil, to be supplied by A. M. Smith Orrville, L. W Johnson, St. John's L. Carlisle; Antreville, W. S Martin: Calhoun Falls, W. H. Har Jen; Central, W. S. Goodwin; Clem son College, A. E. Driggers; Hones Path, T. W. Munnerlyn; Lowndesville, J. F. Anderson; Pelzer, W. L Mulliken; Pendleton, J. H. Manley Piedmont, G. G. Harley; Prince ton, J. E. Strickland; Seneca, B. M Robertson; Starr, N. G. Ballenger Walhalla, Ea P. Taylor; Walhal Circuit, Foster Speer; Westminster J. W. Lewis; Williafflston and Belton J. K. Holman. Cokesbury District?Presiding el der, J. W. Kilgo; Abbeville, J. L Daniel; Abbeville Circuit, R. F. Cog t)urn; Butler, W. P. Meadors; Cokea bury, J. W. Shell; Greenwood Greenwood Mills, C. L. Harris; Main Street, B. fc, Turnipaee^; Greenwooc Circuit,, W., H.. Murray); fcnards, P, K. ?. Mc.Conriicif, J. G. Huggin Mc?endree, , to be suppled; Newjerry Central, C. E. Peele; City Misrion, S. C. Duncan j * p'Neall Street f. P. McGill;. Newberry Circuit,, G, FY Clarkson; Ninety-Six, Q. A. Jeff:oat; Phoenix, J. I. Spinks; Pluzc t) T DAimfnu i Pnmario J L>1 auuii| Ak* a-f. ItvuiiWivwj * VL Mason; Prosperity and Zion, W, M. Owings; Saluda, M. T. Wharton; Waterloo; S. H. Booth; Whitmire, k. H. Best; Lander College, presilent, J. 0. Willsno, Main Street quarterly conference; professor a1 Lander College, R .0. Lawton, Main Street quarterly conference; assistint Sunday school editor, L. P. Beat ;y, Main Street quarterly confersnce. REV. J. L. DANIEL RETURNS. The people of Abbeville will b? pleased to know that Rev. J. L. Daniel has been returned by the Uppei South Carolina Conference to Abbe ville for another year. Rev. Mr Daniel is greatly liked in Abbeville 1 t-- 1 1-1 1 i.i vnere ne nas laoorea ior mree years Percy Leach of Camp Gordon came home Saturday to visit hi! parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Leach. ! HOOVER MESSAGE ' READ IN CHURCHES Food Administrator Appeals for Stricken I Europe. 8 . AMERICA MUST ' FEED THE HUNGRY i ???? j Hundreds of Millions of People Look to America to Save Them From Starvation?Says End{ ing of War Does Not Release ! People From Pledge. t * j Washington, Dec. 1.?American food conservation week for world re. lief opened today wi^h an appeal from Food Administrator Hoover, j which was read in the churches over [ the country. ' I Mr. Hoover, who is now in Europe arranging for food supplies for the populations of that country, said the people of the United States now have opportunity for renewed service to mankind Jt>y helping through t conservation of food here to feed [| 300,000,000 hungry people in North.| era France, Belgium, Russia, South| ern Europe, Poland and Armenia. mi / a j* xae xuuu aumini?traiion aisu uucusssed the pledge given last summer . to the interallied food council by the American government to meet the > food program of the allies and said ' the ending of the war does not re! lease the American people from that pledge. ! "The same populations must be 1 fed", the message said, "and until another season has passed they can , not feed themselves. | "In addition to the supplying of France, Serbia, Rumania, Montenej gro, Poland, Russia and Armenia rely jupon America for immediate help. We must also participate in the con- ? j servation of the newly liberated na! i tions in Austria. Nor can we ignore >! the effect on the future world devel! ; opments of a famine condition among j these other people whom we have re j cently released from our enemies. "All these considerations mean that "| upwards of 200,000,000 people in ad dition to those we are already pledg- . ?| ed to serve are now looking to us im *1 their misery and famine. Our ap j peal today is, therefore, larger tham , ?j the former appeal to the 'war con* science' of our people." 9 1 ' 11 ? * ' CAKE EXCHANGE! The exchange conducted by Mrs. Link's Canteen on Wednesday be J fore Thanksgiving was a success and . something over $35.00. was cleared.... . The. members thank those . people " x ?v., t i T \ who kindly contributed to this ex[ change* Just before Christmas a . ,j"Cake Exchange" will be held at. r ; the same place. If you are desirous . of a spepiaj kind of cake it would . be a.godo idea to call up any mem- ^ ( ber o fthis canteen and make jour , wants known for it will be just,.as easy to make the cake you want a* i! to make any other kind. CELEBRATING PEACE. ' Alvin Wilkinson has written hia ' home people, a letter dated the 12tk which is probably the first letter to '| reach Abbeville since the signing of i the armistice. Alvin belongs to the | 81st and he says they celebrated the I coming of peace by giving them| selves a fine banquet. Four courset were served and between times there were speeches, music and dancing. Alvin has seen Ed Smith, and Jack >, Brownlee and both are in good health jand good spirits. h Alvin feels that the Kaiser got j wind of the fact that the Wilkinson's . I were alter mm ana ne simply quit. 'I Judge and Mrs. Frank B. Gary j left Sunday morning for Columbia, f where the judge will hold court uh3 ':?1 the holidays. Mrs. Gary will stay j ;.mong her friends.