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VOLUNTEERS MAY
SERVE OVERSEAS
Call for Fifty Thousand Coming?
Will Visit Germany?Men to Be
Concentrated at Camp Meade
for Early Duty in
France.
Washington, March 28.?An immediate
call for 50,000 valunteers for
service in Europe has been prepared
by the war department and probably
ka rmViliohpH tomorrow. As an
vrm MV
incentive to enlistment the men will
be offered early duty in France as a
relief for men in the expeditionary
forces who wish to return home.
Enlistment in this special force
will be for three years. The men will
be concentrated at Camp Meade, Md.,
and probably will be sent overseas in
contingents 1,000 strong.
War department officials expressed
confidence that no trouble would be
experienced in raising the 50,000 men
or an even greater number if necessary.
The bulk of the men art: ex*
pected to come from recently discharged
troops, especially those who
after having been drafted and trained
were prevented from going overseas
by the armistice. Opportunity to
see service in Germany, it is thought,
,will lead many of these to enlist.
A number of officers, probably ten
.$>12, will be sent overseas with each
Mi?Jn?VkAvif nf 1 nnn man /lollV'nff
-^U^ICIUCUV MX XjVVV UiVU J
^J/Camp Meade. These willl be used a4
{he concentration camp to give thfe
preliminary training necessary to
whip the men into casual, organizations
and make the required examinations.
On arrival in Europe they
will take the places of officers eligible
for discharge. '
, PROF.
WILSON HERE.
?
Prof. Walter W. Wilson, of Level
Land, arrived again on Monday afternoon.
He brought along Prof.
Temple, also of the Nail Kag College,
of Level Land. They tackled Joe
Hughes and Eugene McMillan in the
Hillbilly stronghold, and beat them 7
to 4. Old man Cothran came into
the game at this point succeeding
Joe Hughes, and it is said that what
he got was a plenty. It' was the first
i time in his long and honorable career
as a Setback artist that he went
i * -.home "skunt," but such was the case,
a? sad as we find it to tell on him.
g A HARD JOB.
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The doctors over at Anderson ard
having a hard time, making an aristocrat
out of Dr. Gambrell. Thej
have operated on him three times and
so far have failed. He returned to
Anderson on yesterday for another
try. If they fail this time, he expects
to give the effort the good-bye. However,
his ailjnent of the ears is great
ly relieved and he begins to feel like
himself again.
NEW SUBSCRIBERS.
The folllowing new subscribers
have handed us their names , with
proper accompaniment since our last
issue: Geo. Nance, Will Hall, Lieut.
,F. E. Harrison, 0. T. Bradbury, T.
0. Price, Rev. J. B. Hillh'ouse, Cindy
Martin, and J. J. Price. This is
what we call coming some.
A SICK BABY.
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The little baby girl of Mrs. James
ttr J* * ? *
yyooanursi; is improving alter an attack
of* double pneumonia. Mrs. Eigermann
nursed the little girl and
helped pull her through.
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GERMANS NOT WILLING
FOR HALLER TO PASS
General Nudant Meets,. With Refusal
on Presentation of Marshal Foch's
Note Demanding Passage Thru
Danzig for Polish Divisions,
Part of Allied Army.
Berlin, March 28.?General Nu^
dant, representing Marshal Foch on
Wodnodav snKmittoH n nnt.A tn thp
j German government demanding a
passage through Danzig for the Polish
divisions under General Haller,
which are a part of the allied army
and permission for their march to
| Poland to maintain order. The note
i added that any refusal would be re'
garded as a breach of the armistice.
The German'government, after exI
haustive deliberations by the party
leaders, replied that according to the
armistice, it was * only- obliged to
| grant the allies free access to the
| Vistula to maintain order in territori
ies of the former Russian empire. In
concluding the treaty, the government
declared, it proceeded in any
case from the standpoint that there
could be no question of Polish troops.
"The note then refers to incidents
during the journey of Ignace Jan
Paderewski, the Polish premier "who,
grossly violating the hospitality Recorded
him on German soil, gave the
signal for revolt and civil war -and
who, when he was in Danzig in1 De
cember, 1918, said: 'If the Polish division
from prance and. Italy should
be in Danzig, then Danzig and all
west Prussia would be Polish."
Proceeding, the note refers to^uraerous
demands by the German mafjority
in west Prussia who wish to resist
Polish attacks by force, and says
that by such civil warfare the German
eastern front against' Russian
Bolshevism will be endangered.
In conclusion the communication
asked for information as to the. composition
and strength of General IJaller's
army, the date of its landing and
transit of Poland, and what', guarantees
the allies can offer that General
Haller's arrqy, or a portion of it, will
not participate in Polish demonstration
or a possible insurrection of the
Polish minroity.
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AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.
Mack McCullough and Clayton
j Bannister, of the Lowndesville seci
tion, ha? a narrow escape on Friday
night when the automobile in which
they were riding, turned over near
the residence of Mr. George Mann,
on the Lowndesville road. Mr. McCullough
received the more serious
injuries, having three ribs and his"
collar bone broken, as well as suffering
internal injuries. Bannister es[caed
with general bruises but with
.{no $>ones broken.
| Both of the injured are farmers.
' They ran out of guajio horns Friday
| afternoon, and went to Iva to replenj
ish the stock. They bought the guano
| horns, but the month's supply of the
| family remedy had come- in and they
J took a dose or two of this. The next
! thing in order was a ride to Abbei
ville, which was made on good time,
| the accident happening on the return
trip.
Dr. Pressly was called in soon afi
+.Hp nprmrlnnf nnH fnnnr) tVio fwn
; men at the home of Mr. Mann. He
J found them suffering1 considerably,
: but by morning Mr. Bannister was
; able to return-home, while Mr. Mc
Cullough was taken to the hospifeal
; for further examination and treat!
ment.
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THE VICTORY LOAN DRIVE.
'! Wm. M. Barnwell and C. H. McMurray
Were the representatives
frqm Abbeville who met "in Columbia
with representatives from other parts
j oi tne, state on last inursaay to pian
'j for the big Victory Loan Drive.
, HOME FROM COKER.
k.! ! Mis%' Caroline Re^eBej and Misl ^iJ
nona Barksdale eame up from Coker
J College, this week and spent a few
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<-d?ys> hiking ;fifier?h?piriBg j^bopping
k and visiting home folks.
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5,500 MISSING?
GENERAL PERSUING
Total Compares With England's 161,800;
France's 290,000?Accesr to
Prison Camp Sites in Germany
Leads to Many American
Graves.
Washington, March 27.?General
j Pershing reported to the War DeI
partment today -that there are still
5,500 officers and men of the expeditionary
forces listed as missing. This
total compares with the British official
figures of 161,800 missing and
the French of 290,000.
All of the 5,500 names have been
reported as "missing" in casualty
lists already published, the reporf
said. Re-interments of bodies from
isolated graves in the centralized
cemeteries is furnishing additional
identification in a number of cases,
and for this reason the records of the
grave registration service are being
carefully studied. /*,
Re-examination of grave .' registra-i
tion reports, and also of hospital rec-j
.ords, referred to by Gen.? Pershing^ [
was said bv officials at the War De
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i partment to explain the "killed in aej
tion". and/"wounded in action" casualties
still appearing in tjhe-t daily
I casualty lists sefct out by the department.
The British war office, Gen. Perj
shine's report said, had adopted the
policy of considering twenty-six
weeks in the case of an officer and
thirty weeks for an enlisted man as
i the length of time, after the man hafl
been recorded as missing befoipj
death is presumed. In the French,,
army, he said, W definite period had i
been fixed.
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."No accurate estimate of unreported
deaths can be given", said Gen.
Pershing's report. "There are, how-|
ever, 5,500 missing to be accounted;
for, all of whom have been reported
to Washington. as missing. Reinterment
of bodies removed from isolated
graves.to centralized cemeteries is
fwrnialiino" Additional identification
of deaths hitherto reported as miss-j
ing. This is especially true of re-|
burials of bodies originally buried
by Allied units to which American;
troops weft attached, identifications'
being either incomplete or imperfectly
registered at interment.
"Deaths of American soldiers inj
French hospitals, of which only mea-j
gre and often incorrect records on
file, are likewise disclosed by reburi-j
al of these.bodies, resulting in com-!
plete identification. Access to ^sites j
of prison camps in Germany and to;
territory formerly within enemy lies [
is' leading to discovery of many Am-|
erican* graves and identification ofj
casualties previously reported as;
missing. '
"Each company or other unit of;
the American expeditionary force
have heretofore been furnished a
j complete list of officers and men car!
ried as missing up to February 1. All
j units are required to display such i
j list in places accessible to members
l of command for the purpose of se1
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j curing casualty information from ev-j
i ery possbile source. This expedient
| is resulting in locating hitherto un!
known graves and identification show!
ing present status and whereabouts
j of many battle casualties.
"Consideration should be given to
the fact that methods of warfare as
well as the extent of terrain fought
! over lent exceptional difficulties to
| discovery and burial of dead. Burial
I parties frequently completed their
! mission under heavy fire and often
I could only be done under cover of
i rlqY-L-n<icc: +Vmc maVincr irlpnf.ifimt.inri
difficult and often impossible, jleburials
are now furnishing means of
identification in a great- majority of.
such cases. For this reason grave
registration and chaplain reports are
, Being again investigated, . VA* .small
percentage of such reports lnvesti
gated are proving to be cases of Amsuch.
As rapidly as identification
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Gold Mine Discovered on Plantation
of Col. Pat Roche Near City.
About Twenty Thousand Dollars.'
in Nuggets Picked Up bj[
Young Geddings Roche.
Although there has been a studied
effort to keep the public in the dark, ,
it has leaked out, and as usual The
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Press and Banner got the news first,'
that a gold mine hat been discovered >
on t?>e plantation of Col. Pat Roche' ;
near the city, and A'now teemr that
Col. Roche is to be one of the fabu.
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lously rich men in the country. j.
The gold was discovered bj/ acci-' .
dent. Mr. Roche had been promising j
Geddings, his bright young son, to;
take%him out to the farm for several! ,
days, but on account of the weather; .
and one thing and another the prom-.' (
ise had not been kept until Saturday
a week ago. On that day it wa^! (
warm and bright, so it wa* decided ^
that Geddings should have his outing,
and a merry one it was. j (
While he was crossing the rocky
blujf on the faf side of the planta-,
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tion about zioda time, the little man ^
discovered something which shone j
like gold. He picked it up and look-1
ed about him and soon ' discovered j
other nuggets, because that was what|
they proved to be, nugget's- 6f pure;
gold. He carried these to his father |
and the old man stepped lively whenj
he had looked at them, not that he.
, j
loves gold, but he likes the things I i
which it buys. When he arrived at j j
' V place where Geddings found the | 1
,eoon located a kind of,J
pocket 1ri which he found enough of.j
the yelllow metal to line his pockets.. |
Hurrying home, he took these to }
the nearest assay office and found 1
that he had already taken from, the ]
oil of a place he was about to sell i
for five thousand dollars, twenty i
thousand dollars in gold. 1
On the ?dvice- ff the men in J
charge" of the assay office he came 1
back home and quietly took a sack i
of the rocks from the bluff, which he 1
shipped to a chemist at Clemson
College. The assay shows that these i
rocks are rich in gold, some of them i
running as high as four hundred dollars
to the ton. 1
Mr. Roche has already been pffer- j'
ed more than a hundred thousand | I
dollars for a one-half interest in his ]
farm by a syndicate in Greenwood '
which makes a specialty of buying i
up all the gold mines and which it
appears to us is (frying to copier the ]
gold market. :
All of which makes interesting !
reading for the financially inclined
on this the firat day of April.
VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN
SUNDAY?MAY 4TH
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, Fichmond, Va., March 28.?May 4
>.~s been, fixed as Victory Liberty
Loan Sunday, it was - officially announced
today by the War Loan OrI
ganization here. Lewis B. Franklin,
Director of the War Loan Organizaj
tion o^ the United States Treasury
I stated in a telegram, received in
j Richmond, that the above date had
j been set to avoid any conflict with
j the Easter services of Sunday, April
I 20.
Coming just after the middles of
J the Victory Liberty Loan Campaign
[ it is hoped that this Sunday will be
j observed as a special day of thanks;
giving for victory. Every mini'ster in
! the "Fifth Federal Reserve District
I will be asked to cooperate to this
j end. Ministerial unions will also be
| expected to participate. Sunday
| schools and Bible classes will be re
j quested to ooserve victory ounaay,
! as the Easter season seems a fitting
j. time for a day. of. rejoicing, and
thanksgiving.
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can be completed from information
originally filed on subsequently obtaiped
from every possible source,
is being reported by cable."
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JAPANESE INVADE v' j
i-OWER CALIFORNIA
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Mexico Grants Rifchts?to Corn Corporations?May
Caus* friction.
Aguirre Certain, However, That
Monroe Doctrine Not Involved
in Transaction.
Mexico City, Saturday, Mar. 29.?
That Japanese corn corporations have
been granted concessions ,to exploit
agricultural lands in Lower California
was the statement made late today
by Gen. Amado Aguierre, under
secretary of development and agriculture.
The affirmation was made, however,
that the concessions were fully
authorized by the provisions of the
Mexican constitution regarding the
area and position of the territory in
relation to the ocean shore and the
frontier line. 1'
There was nothing in the^concessions,
it was asserted by the under
secretary, that might possibly lead
to difficulties as far as the Monroe
doctrine was concerned.
'Reports that there is a possibility
of international controversy over the
granting of the concessions to the
Japanese Were said to be absurd by
Gen. Amado Aeniirreiin an interview
earlier in the day, in which he said
the action was legal.* At that time
fie would not admit the concession
had b^en granted. The Japanese legation
here denied it had any official
knowledge of the action. ;
. SAMUEL F. NANCE DEAD.
Samuel F. Nance, eldest son of the
ate F. W. R. Nance, did not linger
ong after his father was called.
Death claimed the son^on Saturday,
March 29th, af 8:30 P. M., and be
joined the father on the other shore.
Mr. Nance was in his sixty-second
year . He was born in the state of
Mississippi, being a twin brother of
Miss Lizzie Nance, formerly of Abberille,
but now of? Due VTest. He was
i farmer and followed thjfe " occupa:ion
during? all of his life except for
four years when he was jailer of Abaeville
County. He lived before coming
to Abbeville near Due West, but
le has made his ho^ne in Abbeville
for the last twenty-seven years, hav- s
ing his residence in Fort Pickens,
md tending his farm near the city. I
In early life he married Miss Fan- (
lie Agnew, who has been a most de- t
rated and helpful wife to him during 1
all the years. She with four eons, i
Eugene, John, George and Roy sur- <
rive the father. Two daughters pre- ]
leded him to the grave. 1
Mr. Nance was never a strong <
man physically, but he did nor suf- i
fer from bad health until-August of ]
last* year. At that time he was strick- I
en with a* disease of the heart, complicated
with liver trouble. This in
connection with a case of Influenza
during the winter weakened him, so
that he was-confined to his bed for
several weeks. Though this was true,
and though he was^not expected to
recover, the came suddenly and unexpectedly
on Saturday night, only a ^
few minutes after he had been in
?
conversation, with friends, and apparently
in as good physical condition
as he had been in for sometime.
Funeral services were conducted
at the home on Sabbath- afternoon
by Rev. M. R. Plaxco, of the Associ-j'
ate Reformed Presbyterian Church, i1
which Mr; Nance had been a mem-j'
ber for many years. The interment
was at Long Cane immediately after 1
the services.
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A GOOD ROAD.
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The road from Abbeville to Cnl- ^
houn Falls has been worked recently
and if you are looking' for a fine .
drive you may turn your car in th^t
direction. The work done is better
than any which has been done in the
county in a long time.
All of the roads are in better conditio^
than -one would expect, but
there are imfoy holes whichmightiie
filled, as well as bridges needing re
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PASSPORTS ISSUED,
10 IRISH MISSION'
Americans to Present . Irtlanclja
Claims at Paris, Wal*h, Dunn? aa?l . * ~
Ryan?;Americans Will Endeavor
to Obtain Hearing at the'' t !* v
rea.ce Conference. ' ^'y||i
Washington, March 28.?Passoprts
vere granted by the S?ate Depart-,
nent today to Frank P. Walsh, forner
joint chairman of the war labor- \ -.'fig
)oard: Edward F. Dunne,% former
Governor of Illinois, and Michael ^K.
Etyan, former Pennsylvania PubKd . * ->?||8
Service Commissioner, who are going
;o Paris to present Ireland's claims
it the peace conference as spokesmen ' &&
)f the Irish race convention held last ,
nonth at Philadelphia. '
In submitting their request for
jassports, Mr. Walsh and Mr. Ryan^
epresenting the committee, stated . v.Jjj
;he purpose of their mission was to A
'obtain for the delegates selected by - '
;he people of Ireland a hearing at '{$
;he peace conference and to place ' i&M
jefore the conference, if that hearing . . :
>e not given, the case of Ireland, her
nsiaibence upon hdr right to self-de- p-'
ermination of the republican form . ' ?f' J:
>f government established by ;her
>eople." ' ' .
No Statement luned. '
No statement was issued at thfe
State Department in connection with /
he granting of the passportfc and of- '
icials declined to discuss the matter ^
nformally beyond saying that pass-' -j T>orts
had been granted. * , /'jl
Mr. Walsh, who will head the mis- *
ion which expects to sail April 2 on t
he steamer-Le Touramer-frem -JSTew f '-'3
fork issued the following statement* / v y'jsk
oday:
"The committee is going to France ' '
is American citizens, holding no al- , .. ' 'M
egiance, actual or spiritual, to any t' ./$?
?ther nation on earth, but imbued ' ; ,
vith the necessity of extending , the ;
>rinciples of free government to Ire-' .<
ad, which is the typical small naion
of the world being deprived of . *
iic ngnt to determine lor itself the
'orm of government binder which it
ihall exist. ' , . / 7 ? ':M
. "Naturally men'ad women of Irish
)lood and ancestry everywhere haVea f '
leep and sentimental attachment to ' 1
he land which gave'.birth to their * >.
ace, and at this crucial m^ment of ' y - '-t
lew world concepts desires to jfen- ^
ler all of the assistance in their* * 7 |
power to the representatives of #ie
people of Ireland delegated to attend
;h| peace conference. The committee " j
jxpects to remain in France until
Ireland's case is fully determined by. ?
the conference." . "v. . :>-a
SATURDAY. '
Saturday was a busy day in A'bbe- ' , *
"'He,-the 3creets were ined \v!tn gears'
ind the stores were fulk of busy shop- . / ' ?ers.
Some had money while others , % ' %
;verg working their credit.t I? all it '
was one of the busiest days in the 1 ; j
stores since the Christmas holidays. ?
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MEETING THE BOYS.'
Lieut. G. A. Neuffer, Lieut. Owen
Speed, and Lieut. Carrol Swetenburg v . ' <
vent down to Columbia this week to : f;
be on hand for the arrival of the
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Thirtieth, and to give' the glad hand t ' 0
:o the boys. OFF
TO TATE'S: * .
Mr. and Mrs. James Chalmers left ;
last Wednesday for a stay of some ",-VJ
length at Tate Springs. Mr. Chal- ?><!
mers hopes to be greatly impsoved
by the healthy waters.
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\ Mrs.- George White, Jr.; c$me
J'- > ^ . 1-1 niv-'J- ^ OU-.
nome last tweew ,irom xviuriuu. y jiDno f jn
had a pleasant visit but became fi;Vic- \ '3^
ipalaria and ..had \q. rstuajf to '
the up country. *!' j
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