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P XVlJL^rV ? y aj. XV1U -Z) XV AW. f ^ i Xocal j flews : personals : J y? ~ ^-41. Mrs. J. R. Blake came up from A Greenwood yesterday to attend the', funeral of Mr. Chalmers. 1+ iJ . j( The street sprinkler has been up ( Greenville street every day for the c past week helping settle the dust. c i Many of our stores are decorated 1 in patriotic colors in honor of the j return of the boys of the Thirtieth, j c I c Will Kellar, who has seen over- i seas service for nearly a year, has been mustered out of the service and has returned home. Mr. M. T. Coleman came home on j Tuesday after being in Columbia to i see the big parade and welcome the ^ boys home. ' < ( Mrs. Lila Mabry went over to { Clinton this week and spent two days , with Mrs. Livingston and Mrs. Saidee Mazyck. ] ] Mrs. L. D. Witt, of Greenville, is , in the city on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jamieson at the Eureka Ho- ^ tel. ] Mrs. W. A. Harris is at home from j Columbia and as Chairman of the Victory Loan is entering with spirit into preparations for a successful drive. . .'v r r ' i J. G. Fleming, a prosperous far- . mer of the Antreville section, was in i * the city on Thursday. He reads the ' Press and Banner; rides in a fine automobile, and sells cotton when it is Casper Little, who left Abbeville ( with the boys now returning home, ^ has been mustered out of the ser- , . vice and is at his home in Clinton. He was a member of the Thirtieth and did his part in getting rid of! the Kaiser. J ? Mrs. Malissa Greene, of the Gil- . gal section, who has been spending . several days with her daughter, Mrs. I. E. Culbreath, at her home on 1 s Magazine Street, leaves today for, Greenville, where she will visit an- j, other daughter, Mrs. W. E. Winn. i c She expects to spend several weeks1 ^ in Greenville. j OUR BOYS?SOLDIERS ALL. The following men of the Thirti-! eth Division have returned to Abbeville: Lieut. W. D. Wilkinson, Charles Armour s John Armour i \ Hubert Cox e " Gary Evans I Tom Sherard I I Mack Reid r : Wm. Duckworth c John Calvert Wm. McCord j j Francis Mabry Willie Jones Ansel Putman. All of these young men were of j the first to leave Abbeville. Theyj fought in the big battles in Belgium c and Northern France and broke the * Hindenburg line, and put the Germans on the run. a MEETING THE SOLDIERS. 1 t * Rivers Mabry, the seven year old a son of Mr. R. L. Mabry, told us Wed- I nesday that "Francis has landed and j I Papa is going to take me and some 11 other men to Columbia tomorrow js to meet him." The "other men"i 1 proved to be Tompkins Ramey. Theyj made the trip through the country j c on/1 ttnl 1 flio unnn r* oaI/Jion/1 t anu ry in U11115 jruuug oviui^i auvi Mrs. Mabry, who is already in Co- c lumbia, home with them. t 1 PAINTING UP. c Col. Pat Roche has adopted the t i-. slogan, "Clean up and Paint up" as t bis own and is improving hia. place .. on Cambridge Street by putting on a coat of-white pamt. ^ AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT What came near being a serious mtomobile accident happened on STorth Main Street Thursday afternoon at 3:30. Thomas Harrison, of ;he City Garage, and Mr. Bringle, )f the Smathers Motor Car Co., were Iriving out Main in the Cadillac Dut-down car belonging to Mr. Harbison when Mr. J. E. Jones backed lis car into the road in front of ;hem, for the purpose of turning. Mr. Harrison attempte'd to drive iround the Jones car, but when it vas too late to stop he saw that he vas about to collide with it. In at;empting to prevent the collision he Irove his car into the bank on the )ther side of the street, turning his :ar over. He was caught under the iteering wheel and suffered internal njuries, the extent of which had not )een determined when we went to jress. Mr. Bringle suffered severe :uts about the head, a broken nose, ind a general shaking up, but he is lot seriously hurt. SUFFRAGETTE CONVENTION. People of Due West and community, attention! President Matilda fetsingle, (Mrs. Moffatt) announces ,hat the Laura Jean Libbey Literary Dlub will organize a suffragrette :lub Monday evening, April 7th, at J:30 o'clock at Erskine Auditorium. The speaker of the occasion is that .uperior suffragette orator, Joannah 3ightower Overman (Mrs. G. G. Parkinson). Her general theme is 'Truth About Woman's Rights." The following persons will be ;here: Mrs. Trublehunter (Mrs. Erlest Hagan), Flossie Trublehunter (Nancy Moffatt); Johnnie Trublelunter (George Young); Mrs. Land>oor (Miss McDill); Mrs. Boaster (Mrs. E. L. Reid); Widow Twiggs (Miss Wideman); Viney and Joe rwiggs (Kathryn Galloway and Jas. 5V. McDill-^Dr. Osteopath (Mrs. S. r. Todd); Miss Sallie Scrapper (Miss s :?\ - if? nr:n?A T>?: Dcog^iiis; , ixirs. tt iiiic Duucwcit (Miss Brooks); 'Mrs. Stepanfechit (Miss Crockett) ; Miss Jane Lovin*ood (Miss Addison); Mrs. Highstep (Mrs. S. A. Pressly); The Highstep ihildren (Gladys Magill, Sara Boyce ind Jimmie Benton); Mrs. Blublud (Mrs. Wilson); Mrs. Toogood (Mrs. r. P. Pressly); Mrs. Slowsweeper (Mrs. Mamie Pressly); Aunt Dina (Mrs. Copeland); Reception commit;ee (Mrs. Mcllwain, Mrs. Donald, ind Miss Kate Kennedy); Advertis;rs (Mrs. J. B. Pressly and Mrs. J. ?. Pratt); Deacon Tucker (Prof. ?g); Policeman. The play will be preceded by a short musical program. Admission: 15c for children and t5c for men and WOMEN. The pro:eeds of the lecture will be applied ;o the purchase of a piano for the )ue West High School. DoVn with man rule! Votes for vomen! XXX ?? NEW SUBSCRIBERS. __ ( The following are the new subicribers to this paper since the last | ssue: R. W. Davenport, R. H. Stev-j snson, Rev. H. C. Fennell and Pleas j Sibbs* E. J. Huckabee and Clyde] Morgan. Nine old subscribers relewed their subscriptions on Thurslay. NOTICE SCHOOL DISTRICT ELECTION i Whereas, a petition has been cir :ulated in' the Joint School District j >f Abbeville and Greenwood Coun-j ies known as Woodlawn School Dis-: rict, (formerly known in Abbeville; bounty as Cana School District) i isking for an election for the pur-| >ose of voting an additional one mill j ax for school purposes; and where-j is, the petition appears to be pro-! >erly signed; the County Board of Education has ordered an election o b eheld at the school house in: aid district on the _5th day of April [919. Those in favor of said tax will :ast a allot upon which there is writen or printed, the word, yes. Those >pposed will cast a ballot upon which here is written or printed the word, *o. The trustees will act as managers >f said election and shall carry out he rules trovernine General Elec ions. W. J. EVANS, D. H. HILL, l-4-3t Co. Board of Ed. IF YOU DO NOT SEND HER NORRIS' Exquisite Candy (Kept on Ice.) the other fellow will. Fresh by express every week. i j i i I j i The ' McMurray Drug Co I FOUGHT WITH THE MILLIONAIRES * Ben King, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomson King, of this county, has i I returned home haying been mustered out of the service. He was a member of the 27th Division, composed of New York millionaires, and fought as well as any of them. His ! Division was alongside the Thirtieth | and helped to put Hindenburg on the run. VISITING HER OLD HOME. T? o t :_l, in. ivirs. XV. O. i-zllirv auu uu uuvw ... teresting children left Wednesday for Courtland, Ala., where they will visit for some time. -i : THE SECOND FIRE. There are always three, fires. The second one occurred on Tuesday morning About 10 o'clock. The residence of Mr. Jordor. ' Ramey on North Main Street was entirely consumed by the fire which was discovered at that time. A portion of the house-furnishings were saved by the efforts of the neighbors who gathered in and of the men of the fire de* partment. Mr. Ramey was away from home when the fire occurred being among those who went to Columbia to greet the overseas men of the Thirtieth. It has not yet been decided just j how the fire originated. When first i discovered it was bursting out of the ( roof of the dining-room and kitchen, making it appear likely that it came j from a defective kitchen flue. a \ \ \ tjmm\ 11S11 iff i u i a sifl/ ! ?? ?\ v !i/ Ms . hi \im ' f I l V. > { tfr f-lin H 11?, 4 ' i Jfpll I N I i \ I f Ms I 5 V \| mw, i ! i i vA t I j. ' iv*#/ J j J I A' Vvk s 1 /-/ ^Y3v ., v M . i TT^^T^r ^ -v^-. ,v^, i THE PICTURES ON THE WALL. P Photographer Hays has made pro-J| tograhs of nearly all the boys who have gone from Abbeville to the war and in honor of the boys return, he is displaying their pictures in his showcases. The pictures are all goodi except Lieut. Neuffer's, who has on' his fighting face and looks mean; j enough to make Von Hindenburg: j take to his heels. I THE SCHOOL "SHOW." 1? Wednesday the 9th has been dej cided on as the date for the enter-j tainment to be given by the' pupils j of the ftigh School. The young la- j dies are practicing every afternoon! 'and the "show" is bound to be a; J ' great success. The proceeds will go j i towards the support of a French j iorphan. . : A MISTAKE CORRECTED. I . I Mr. Charlie McNeil says, we made j a serious mistake when we said that i Barksdale's "ugly clerks" decorated i i I the window with the ham and egg ' design. He says 'he decorated the. j window himself and we are glad to' ' correct the mistake. HELPING OUT. I ' -i t Mrs. E. C. Horton took charge of j the sixth grade at the High School Wednesday in place of Miss Tennant who was absent on account of the death of Mr. Chalmers. HOME COMING RECEPTION. The soldiers who have returned | from service either at home or over-j seas, and those who are at home on I leave as well, are invited to assemble in front of-the Court House on| Friday afternoon at 6. o'clock, dressed in full uniform, to attend the Home-Coming Reception then to be tendered by the people of the city. SAMUEL PATTERSON PRESSLY. Samuel Patterson Pressly was born January 4th, 1839, and died Nov. 7tfy, |9i8,-in his eightieth year. The deceased was a son of Rev. J. P. Pressly, D. D., for many years pro; fessor in Erskine College and in Erskine Theological Seminary. = After graduating from Erskine I a Mr. Pressly took a course in medi-' cine. He did not long follow the I v practice of his profession, however, 11 but settled on a farm near Due West] i where the remainder of his life was j s spent. This knowledge of medicine ( h together with a certain delicacy />f j Y touch and fine sympathy caused his | li ministry in the sick room to be much; I sought after, and this was with him I d Read) and A - 3J *.?. SOI w M/-.V m The season^ ing?at price i piease. Never befor jmore complete A \ fabrics more u able. ^ Haddc c< 1 i intbtsi un TODAYMAE k "MODER a MUTT and JE1 11c. .... TOMORROW VIERRA'S Singers ai % Pres 3 - i3 "a:night in . Children, 50c. MOl MAE ] "The Cind From Oliver Moro . . . t i i. Sue a A Keystoi lie. , - i labor of love. In early life Mr. Pressly unite* irith the church of his fathers an* o the end its interest had first plac n his heart. Notwithstanding : troke of paralysis which renderei lis last two years partially helpless le was found in his place in th louse of God almost to the lasl ^rom its organization he was an el ler in Bethlehem church. r-to-Wear lillinery... \ most elaborate shows that are sure to e has our stock been s?and the styles and p-to-date and fashionwi-Wilson \ /' * :>mpany * - ^ ?.V ' CWke. ms 300D PICTURESl -FRIDAY :M tURRA Y ' " ii&'M in >" _ :N LOVE" ISO ' I FF CARTOONS - - - - ' 17c. ' !'f|| ?SATURDAY jl HA WAIINS I tid Players | p-ntirio I HONOLULU" - - Adults, 75c. NDAY I MARSH U**" 'j sco's Famous Stage xess. ISO . Y. ;|j ne Comeky - - 17c. I ' Mr. Pressly was a man of strong 1 convictions, coupled with a fine couri tesy and delicacy of feeling, and a e readiness to defer to the opinions j a of others where principle was not d involved. He was married to Miss I, Nancy Edna Holloway, imd is sure vived by two sons and three daugh;. ters, who have the comforting- asl surance that he is "at home with the Lord."?A. JJ. Presbyterian, ^ t I f /p. I trn t A i '^Mi I 'Wji I 1 |||| ;j||| ^ |fi I'Sirjjj 4H|! B -i . I i I J js I 1 & 9 1 *? n . . .... , 1 I '* " / fl