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fliimx LETTER WRITTEN BY L. C. MANNING IN FRANCE P. W. E. Co. 244, A. P. 0. 717, A. E. F. France. Letter written by Leftridge C Manning in France, to his homt jL folks: This leaves me all right aqd 1 , hope it will find you all the same. 1 am off on my leave now, I startec at Wednesday the 12th. I have i * * ? ^ ?l? J: 4> **** seven day leave, not mciuum^ u?v ^ elnig. It took two nights and a daj to get here. I am at Canterets, ui in the Pyrennees Mountains. The town is surrounded by some verj kjgh peaks. They say there are over a hundrec . large hotels here. I haven't ramblec around much yet. I just arrivec about 9:30 o'clock yesterday morn ing, and it was snowing and is stil snowing. It is about ten or twelv< inches deep now I guess. The Frencl men are kept busy shoveling it ofi -1 the sidewalks. IS I have a nicte little room on thf third floor of the hotel Delions. ] can go to bed and get up when 1 jet good and ready. We have breakfast from seven till nine o'clock, dinner from 12 to 1 o'clofck, and sapper from 6 to 7 o'clock, anj time during these hours. They have a large Y. M. C. A, here furnished with large reading and writing rooms, a dance hall, a canteen, and a big theatre with a seating capacity of five hundred. March 17, 1919. 1 will write a little more today, |\. This leaves me still all right. Everything is still covered with snow, sc I have to sit. by the fire and read what time I'm not eating or sleeping. I am going to take a trip down the mountains to Lourdes tomorrow, wil] try and write you all about the trip, if I don't get tippled off the mountains. i March 19, 1919. I am getting alone fine. The gf ' mountains are still covered . with snow. It melts a little then freezes over and snows again. It is melting today. I spent an interesting day yesterday in the city of Lourdes It is called the holy city, because it I | The.: * I Finds this store in, j I at the lowest pricef I, B store?where you < 1 II I ^7 H Throughout th H didly prepared to m needs. Full assor f - ^ Id modes in dresses f B occasions, new tl M 19 wraps suitable for ife K ' i< -i .. if. m. is at the .foot of Mt. Calvary. I fol> lowed the trail around the mountain where they made our Saviour bear his cross, and on up to the top where He was ciucified, and then we went down the other side to the > tomb where He was placed. They have statues placed along up the ; mountain side t representing Jesus [ and His enemies as they went up . rto TWrtnnfcnin. The Y. man exnlained J ?? ? t them to us as we went up. I am/sending two packs, one of T postal card souvenirs, and a large j view of the city. I sure hope they } will get there safe. I don't know r whether you will understand them or not, but I hope to be able to expldin j them when I get back. j Gee! there sure is a crowd of solI diers here taking their leave, it looks like a fellow might find some one j he knows. There is a'big hot sulphur spring II here, and they have a fine swimming . | pool, and shower baths; and tub ! baths. I was out and took a plunge | in the pool this morning, it sure wa^ ! fine. \ I hope I will find a sack of letters 1 from dear old home when I get back to camp. Well, guess I had as Vwell close for this ^ime. Will write i again some time when I have noth i ing to do and nothing to write, j With love to all. j Private, Leftridge C. Manning. JI J ?- k in.iinyj NOTICE TO SOLDIERS.~ All soldiers, marines, sailors, Con* federate Veterans and mothers of the boys, are expected to be here Thursday afternoon to take part in I the parade at 5:30 o'clock. Mrs. J. D. Kerr, | Mrs. T. G. White, Committee on Parade. . j JACK IS DEAD. . t I .' It I \ i* ' V ' . * | . i. Jack, the dog belonging to Annie ,! Hemphill Rogers, died Saturday, the j victim of black tongue. Jack was J no great shakes in the way of pedi. gree, being just plain dog, but he - was a faithful friend to the little ; girl, and her .heart is sore at his ; death. : WEE / splendid shape to thorouj \ will prevail here t^his w ;an buy it all under one : / fsee an( ly < e store you will find us ? o meet your Easter ap tments of new and fxc] or afternoon wear or dre lings in skirts, blouses all occasions. * HOME AGAIN. Son Bill came in all excitement, one day last week, saying "I've got a piece of news for you, Jimmie j Cothran is at home." Jimmie is at ' ? * 1_ *.L A 1^ ; home ana is dsck on we juu i.ux uc knocks off resting every afternoon to take a pretty girl to ride and at night to make love to them. EASTfeR EGG HUNT. The Sixth Grade of the City I School will liave an Easter Egg | Hunt at Klugh's Park, Friday after; noon at half past four o'clock. The ! money realized will go towards the j support of the French Orphan adopt' ed some time ago by the*grade. | 1 KEEPING THE DAY. Mrs. Mary Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. ; Paul Kennedy and Mrs. Foster Mc: Lane went up to Due West Sabbath 1 afternoon and visited friends. They ; found the people keeping the Sab: ' 11 J T- -I- * Datn uay nuiy* iu: uivot ui I/I****** were taking an afternoon nap. : FREE SHOW TO VETERANS. * j Glenn Kay, the enterprising mana. ger of the Opera House, will give a j free show to the soldiers in town for j the celebration Thursday night. This ! is a nice compliment to the young i veterans who will no doubt take advantage of his offer. ^ MRS PRESSLY SICJC. Mjrs. Tallulah Pressly has been ' seriously sick at her home at Cedar Springs for the past several days as a result of a ?all in which she had the misfortune-to break her hip. Her son, Dr. George Pressly, of Charlotte, is with her. The many friends of the fa%ily wish for her an early recovery. I . ?r* ACCEPTS POSITION WITH BANK Lieut. J. Roddy Devlin has accepted a position with the Bank of j Greenwood and will assume his duI ties about the 15th, as soon as he is | mustered out of the service. Lieut, j Devlin is visiting relatives here, at Abbeville and Due We?t on a furlough. He will return to Camp Jacki son next week.?Index-Journal. I ' I K : BI jhly accommodate th^ bi eek as in the past, and th roof. / ????B tEADY-TO-WEAR . des are offering a ijiost com thing to complete the w* All are rnoderately pr SILK AND MUSLIN I s s By all means visit our sto the wonderful creations 1 muslin underwear for \ i hope nothing will interf attendance. 4 jplen- % ' : ^ parel ? . 1 lusive i jss-up and Tl > r 4, INFANT STATES STILL ISOLATED Restriction on Trade in Force?Censors at Work?Although Blockade Has Been Lifted. Poland and Other Countries Suffer. Paris, April 11.?Although the blockade has been formally .lifted against all enemy countries except . Germany and against Bolshevist , Russia, restrictions on trade with Poland, Esthonia and Eastern and Southeaster^ Europe continue to be exercised. There still is censorship of mails and' telegrams and an absence of pos^l communication with the , "infant" States and resumption of trade and of business relations is virtually blocked. The American delegates have been pressing in the interallied council fo? a modification of the censorship, but the system as regards Europe remains in force. The associated governments therefore remain in the po sition of giving with one hand by lifting the blockade and with holding with the other by maintaining commercial censorship. It is hoped, nevertheless, that there soon will be relaxations in 'or a removal of the cen(sorship. I The business situation in Poland, j Esthonia and the other new States illustrates the entire dependence of trade on communication. The blockade no longer ertists for these countries in theory, but owing to the absence of postal or cable communicai1 tiori business men jn Poland for instance, are unable to place orders I ' ' ' | with the outer world or arrange for a resumption of business relations. ; One Pole who reached Paris with , the Polish mission this week brought | no-less than 180 important' letters j which will reach the United States, .thanks only to this special oppor | tunity. Other business interests r in ' Warsaw and Lodz and similar trade j ah'd industrial centers of the new i state can not even lay the preliminary foundations for business with ; the United Stafts until a mail route is established and the commercial censorship is modified. European censorship of mails and .1 c . . 2 lFORE g demands which will fa at means if you will get 1 signed by celebrated ma plete assortment of Suit irdrobe of the most part iced and values extraorc / FNDERWEAR. F IV t ' / v re this we?k and u< 5 we have in silk % p j ai vomen who care. ^ ir ere with your ear- tl 0] o nHBHBBMHBi VI. ANE wo Stores / ? J. ~ cables to European neutrals continues in full force. Complaints, backed by evidence, are constantly being received in Paris. These are to the effect that the censorship is being utilized not alone for the legitimate! purpose of preventing or hampering! trade with Germany but also to give! the nationals of the country exer^j rising the censorship an unfair advantage over American competitors through information extracted from business correspondent. The assertion that all important business information obtained from American ! mail was being registered, tabulated and studied for the benefit of British trade, was constantly made ! in Scandinavia before and after the | entry of the United States into the | war. American business men who j recently have been in Scandinavia ' assert that they received the distinct impression that this, system was still T ' * in vogue. In one case an . American i business man with extensive connections in Europe is said to have found a circular*letter to his agents on the business condition, in ,his parfirtnlo* li'tiA ?ar>T*nrlnoo/1 in tlin | l/lIs UlUi. liilv A VUUbVU AAA Vilv M1AV1 ( mation service of the censoring government. . - * vV HUNS TO HOLD OUT , . FOR FOURTEEN POINTS Berlin, April 10.-?Count Von Broekdorf-Rantzau, < foreign ( minister, speaking before the National Assembly at Weimar today said Germany would not sign a peace treaty which deviated in any essential from President Wilson's 'fourteen points.' "The financial demands to be made in the peace treaty are obviously causing as much difficulty to our opponents as those regarding I territory," the foreign minister said. "It is impossible to solve the question of financial claims without ne'/ gotiating with our experts at the conference ta/ble. We will give a ! clear account to vour opponents rela-. * \ , * * I tive to their demands'^jid our ability * ! to pay." % i\ j "Our opponents," continued the minister "cannot dismember and paralyze Germany and ,-at the. same ; time extract from the resources of the country the enormous sums they 1 v . * ' ?or II ?KI? I / V . > ?, Vt?; " -v. ' ; J*mmmm . * \ ^ ,v.: LA: "V 11 upon it this week. Th< the big dollar's worth yc ' . t . ' \ ikers. Now, as in the earl? s, Dresses, Capes, Dolma ;icular and hard-to-fit ted: linary. ^ , ,/ i ? ASTER IILLINERY This will be a busy f reek in our millinery, \ < epartment. Our dis- \ lay of exclusive and rtistic hats will be at s best this week. Dozens c 1 dainty, summery hats a le first time. Included a riginations are hats in her ther wanted colorings.. )ERSON Abbeville expect from them. For that purpose we require the release, industrially * and agriculturally, of the important west, which contrary to the armistice terms, is cut off from the rest of * , , Germany. . "We need to have the blockade speedily raised and we require the importation of .foodstuffs on condi- t . tion which will make their purchase' , possible. / "All the states which participated in this war find themselves in the same distress and hardly a nation is not disappointed by a peace that is a terrible danger because of the en- . couragement given by it to disrcp-- v v tive forces." v ! . .? -tlU NOTICE TEACHERS' \ y EXAMINATION The Regular Spring Teachers' Examination will be held in the County ^ Court House at Abbeville, on Satur- j day, May 3rd, between the hours of^ 9 a. m., arid 4 p. m. 1 -1 W. J. EVANS, 4-l-3t. Co. Supt. of Education. . I J. F; MIDLER . , I I aa r* a a?nn**T * - <1 I J. m, UAinOKCLL : v ,:*? Insurance Agency . We write Fire In,. , . ' '?* surance on Dwell- . < - ings, Tornado, and' r? - I j Automobiles. City - : ' ! s .'fc and County Proper^ ty solici^d. We represent some ; very; strong companies.' "v Y- . . ' * ' *" ' f * x /Miller & Gambrell, ' \ gt ' -/ , i*' ; Agents. ' i- i " : ; oMUHMnnnnan - ' JTER I 5 best merchandise I "4] >u will come to this . ? ' - \ j part of the season, ns and in fact, ev- ; ies of this communv.'" ' -V^'i . : . ??? 1 i " i.:, - )f the latest models re being shown for mong these smart \ * ma, rust, and many ! -1 * i PA V/U. I ,s.c. I