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Abbeville Press and /Bannergj
AKhaville. S. C.. Tuesday, April 29,1919. Single Copies, Five Cento. ^JgthYear. j|
Established 1M4. $2.00 the Year.
MEMORIAL SERVICES
OF LT. STEVENSON
Exerricet Were Held at Long Cane
Church on Last Sunday Afternoon.
Principal Address Made fey
w n Workman, of
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Greenville.
The Memorial services held at
Long Cane Sunday afternoon to
commemorate the life and service of
Lieut. W. Oscar Stevenson were attended
by the largest concourse of
people gathered at the historic old |
church in many years. The Steven-{
sons have long been members of i
Long Cane and it -was fitting that,
such services should be held and thatj
friends of the young hero should;
gather to pay the tribute of a tear
to his memory.
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The church was made beautiful by j
many roses and urns of handsome
flowers. From the organ two wreaths |
of flowers were hung while above the
pulpit and above the service flag of
1 Vinnop a wViiIp and!
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gold banner bound round with a
wreath of laurels, containing the
name of Lieut Stevenson and the
principal dates in his young life. The
young man was born Oct. 5th, 1890
In Long ane Township, he graduated
from the Abbeville High school!
and spent two years at the University.
He joined the army June 2, 1917,
at Laurens, going in with the Butler
Guards as a private. He showed an
aptitude for soldier life and rose rapidly
from a private to corporal and
sergeant, being sent as a sergeant to
the training camp at Leon Springs, |
Texas, where he was given a commis-!
sion as Second Lieutenant. He went
abroad May 3rd, 1918, and in every!
call young Stevsenson did his full!
duty. He was beloved of his men
and he gave his young life for his
country without fear and without reIgret.
He was killed from shell con?na?{nn
An Sfli. 1918. between!
IMontbrehain and Brancourt.
The services Sunday afternoon
opened with prayer by Rev. H. D.
Corbett, who read the scriptures and
told why this great crowd had gathered
together. Rev. J. L. Daniel
spoke also while the principal address
was made by Major Workman,
who came from Greenville to pay a
jvat tribute to the young soldier.
Major Workman told of the life
of the boys in camp, of their bravery
in battle, giving many incidents
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of their life and paying a glowing
tribute to young Lieutenant Stevenson.
Miss Lois Ferguson presided at the
organ ana a selected cnoir sang tnei
national hymn. Alvin Ellis sang a|
beautiful solo and every one joined
in the singing of "God Be With You
Till We Meet Again", which closed
the solemn services.
The fcrave deeds of Oscar Steven-1
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son will live long in the memory of j
our people and will make a bright
page in the history of a county famous
for the courage of its men.
HIGHLY HONORED.
At the annual elections at Breon
PAII a era o -fotrr A a xro a ofa
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Miss Edna Bradley, of Abbeville, the
pretty and accomplished daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bradley, was
elected as editor of the Annual for
1919-20. Miss Edna is one of the
bright pupils who graduated from
our High School two years ago, and
the fine stand which she is taking at
Brenau is attested by this eleceion.
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SHIP CONTRACTS
ARE CANCELLED
Government Not to Build Vessels?
Work Called Off?Total Cancellations
Since Signing of Armistice
Amount to Four Million
Tons.
Washington, April 26.?Cancellation
of contracts made during the
war for construction of 2,000,000
tons of steel ships was announced
todav bv the shipping board, which
is preparing to close public work in
many yards throughiut the country.
This brings total cancellation since
the signing of the armistice to 4,000,000
tons.
In the brief announcemet issued
from the office of Chairman Hurley,
no reference was made to the actual
numbers of'contracts involved of the
yards affected by the order. It was
explained, however, that action at
this time would not come as a surprise
to builders, as notice was served
on them months ago of the
board's new policy, the chief feature
of which was the elimination of building
plans of all ships under 12,000
tons.
At the end of Marctf about 300
ships for the board had been launched
but not delivered. These ships
rert-esented a tonnaee of about 1.
800,000. On the same date keels
had been laid -forsome 500 ships aggregating
3,000,000 tons.
Shipping boads officials said they
were unable to give the actual unmber
of contracts outstanding or later
figures than March 31. It was indicated,
however, that yards like Hog
Island along with smaller plants along
the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf
coasts would loose some government
business.
Three days after the armistice
Chairman Hurley announced that the
boards had been making a complete
re-survey of its construction program
and contracts. From that time on,
he said, it was planned to build ships
with reference to suitability for
special service and with particular
reference to more economical cost of
operation. During the war, while
there was pressing demand for tonnage
contracts were placed without
regard to cost, a condition which the
board agreed could not continue in
peace times. In view of the plans
for a change of system of building, it
was said that builders and especially
the smaller yards, knew months ago
whether they would be affected by
government cancellation, regarded
then as certain.
G. B. GREENE IN HOSPITAL.
G. B. Greene, Esq., of Anderson,
is in a hospital in that city having
undergone an operation of a serious
nature on Saturday afternoon. The
news from his bedside is that he has
come through the operation in eood
shape and that no complications are
apparent. His friends in Abbeville
County will hope for him a speedy
recovery. His father, James H.
Greene and his brother, Wm. P,
Greene went to Anderson on Sunday
to see him.
ATTENDING SYNOD.
Mr. R. N. Tiddy has been appointed
by the A. R. P. church at Abbeville
to attend Synod which Tweets in
unariotte tms week. The principle
question to come before this body ij
the co-operation plan to be adopted
as to the missionary work in Mexico,
VISITING IN GREENWOOD.
Mrs. Alf Lyon and two of her interesting
children went over tc
Greenwood last week and spent several
days with Rev. and Mrs. J. B
Muse, who have recently moved tc
that city to make their home.
BAKER ON WAY HOME.
Brest, April 27.?Newton D. Ba
ker, American secretary of war
sailed today for the United State*
aboard the transport George Wash
ington.
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TELEPHONE RATES
> MAY BE RAISED
Reviled Schedules Filed in Atlanta?
In Southern States?Notice Given
That Business Service Cost
Will Be Increased?Residences
Reduced.
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1 ules lor local telephone rates were
filed here late today with the State
railroad commission, which it was
said, if put into effect, would give
the telephone companies about a 13
per cent, increase from telephone
rates. Schedules for new rates were
filed today, it was announced, in
eight other Southern States and in
Indiana and Illinois.
The schedules for the new rates
were filed by the Southern Bell Telephone
& Telegraph Company and by
its associated line, ythe Cumberland
Telephone & Telegraph Company,
acting, it was announced, on orders
of Postmaster General Bj/rleson.
New schedules, company officials
said, were filed today with State
railroad commissions or similar bodies
in North Carolina, South Carolina,
Florida and Alabama on behalf
of the Southern Hell and in Mississippi,
Louisiana. Tennessee, Indiana,
and Illinois on behalf of the Cumberland
Company. The new schedi
ules are to be filed next week in
Kentucky, it was said. Only parts
of Indiana and Illinois will be affected.
The new rates affecting solely local
telephone service will work out
j to give a slight decrease in rate for
many residence telephones and . an
increase for rates -of business telephones.
Both unlimited service and
I limited service lines will be affected.
The new rates are to be in effect
May 1.
FIRE AT OPERA HOUSE.
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Manager Kay, of the Opera House,
j suffered quite a loss last Saturday
night when two reels of film were
| destroyed by fire.
| The show had just commenced
and about one-fourth of the first part
of "A Strange Woman" had been
run, when the film broke and clogged
the machine, causing the film to
catch fire from the intense heat of
the spot lens on the machine, destroying
two reels which were in the
' upper magazine. ,
The machines, both new and recently
installed, escaped damage
other than that caused by water. The
house fire protection was used to
extinguish the fiamee.
HOME FROM FRANCE.
' News was received in Abbeville on
| Monday morning of the arrival in a
homfl nnrt. of TTo-rnlH Wonnn TVi4h
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I j young man volunteered among the
| first and has been in the overseas
, service for many months. His home
, folks and friends are delighted at his
safe return.
VISITORS FROM CLINTON.
Mrs. E. B. Sloan and her young
son, James, came over from Clinton
Saturday and spent until Monday af,
ternoon with Miss Eliza Lindsay.
, They attended services at the Sece
! aer cnurcn ana tooK in an tne signts
, of the city.
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[ FRANCO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE.
Paris, April 27 (Havas).?A project
for an alliance between France
and America actualy is under way.
' The Echo de Paris says. President
' Wilson, however, the newspaper
' adds, is withholding action until
he can place the matter before the
* American senate for ratification.
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REV. FENNELL ELECTED.
Rev. H. C. Fennell of Lowndes,
ville, was elected at the recent meeti
ing of Presbytery as one of the min.
isterial commissioners to the General
Assembly.
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NARROW ESCAPE
FOR LEVIATHAN
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Big Transport Barely Avoids Mine?
Many Men on Board?More Than
Twelve Thousand Soldiers
Reach New York on Giant
Vessel.
New York, April 25.?The giant
troops ship Leviathan with 12,000
soldier passengers, the last of six,
transports to arrive here today |
bringing 22,972 men, missed a mine;
by only a 30 feet while off the Grand |
Banks of Newfoundland Tuesday,
morning, her officers reported when'
she docked.
Officers of the ships said the Levia- j
than had been warned to look out;
for a floating mine the day before;
by the transport Mount Vernon,
which had preceded them. On receipt
of the radio warning the course of:
the Leviathan was changed and she!
sailed nearly 100 miles to the southward
of the location of the mine, as
given by the other transport. The,
floatinc infernal machine was sicht-l
ed'dead ahead of the transport, the
officers said, at 10:30 a. m. by Lieat.i
Comdr Harold Cunningham, who Was
on the bridgg. Quick thinking and
quick action was all that averted a
collision. A desperate whirl of tbe j
wheel sent the great steamship past)
the mine with a margin of safety ofi
ten yatds. v *
None of the soldiers aboard knew
until they docked how cloBe they
had been to danger, for the officers
kept the incident to themselves, believing
that if it became known it
might cause needless alarm.
S?*^transports, carrying 22,973
troops including 14,204 members of
the Forty-second (Rainbow) Division
and 4,369 members of the Seven/T
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vjr-owviivu \ jutiu^jl tjr j isividiuu \ilcw^
I York) arrived here today from
I French ports. This is one of the'
I largest single day troop arrivals in!
' this port. More than half of the
' overseas forces were carried by the
| Leviathan.
HOME FROM ITALY.
William E. Clinkscales, of Due
West, has arrived in America after
seeing service in Italy as a member
of the Five Hundred and Twentysixth
Ambulance Section, organized
by Dr. Marion Wyman, of Colum)>it.
This section evacuated 29,852
patients from Sept. 1st to Dec. 15,
and everybody received an Italian
War Cross.
MUST FACE BAR OF JUSTICE.
Washington, April 28.?Trial of
the former German emperor for a
"supreme offense against international
morality and the sanctity of
treaties" has been determined upon
by the Allied and Associated powers.
Holland will be requested to surren]
der the royal refugee for arraign
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mviwic a vuui i wuuipuscu ui u*c
! judges named by the United States.
Great Britain, France, Italy and
Japan.
BURLESON WOULD RETURN
CABLES TO PRIVATE OWNERS j
Washington, April 28.?President.
Wilson has been asked by Postmaster
General Burleson to aprpove the im?l
mediate return of American cable
lines to their private owners.
In announcing his action today the
postmaster general said he hoped
restoration of the properties could
be effected by May 10.
SWISS PRESIDENT TO BE
MrniATHD IM IT A T V 7MCD11TF
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Geneva, April 28.?Gustave Ador,
president of the Swiss Federation,
has received an urgent summons to
the peace conference in Parts and
; left for Pari* Sunday night. The
ne^tpapers here state that he has
. been" invited by the Allies to act as
arbitrator in the question of the
Adriatic.
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GREENVILLE FIRE |l
CAUSES BIG LOSS I
Apartment House and Theater Reduced
to Aahe*?Old School Building?Burned
Structure Used for
Many Years as Home of Chicora
College. .
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Greenville, April 26.?The Colon1
ial building, combined apartment
house and theater, was totally destroyed
by fire at 4:10 o'clock this
morning. A gale blowing at the
time carried burning embers in a
southeasterly direction, causing the
destruction of the Cocoa-Cola bot- ^
tling works, garage and setting fire P
to a warehouse of the same company;
and a dwelling in the Camperdown; ^
MiH village, a quarter of a mile dis- ^
tant. The flying sparks became so
menacing, that residents within a *
block on all sides of the building |'
moyed their household effects in the:11
streets and small blazes on the roofs j v
of the houses added to the 181)078 of
the firemen. . ' , . c
The Colonial theater was owned F
by C. G. Good, who estimated his loss t
at $50,000 with $5,000 insurance.
S. S. Plexico and Fred Plexico, own- q
ere of the Colonial apartment house n
portion of the building, estimated g
their loss at $125,000 with $50,000 |a
insurance. The nearly 200 occupants 8
of the apartment house were forced r
to flee from the burning building
scantily clad without saving any of .
their personal effects. T
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BIG REAL ESTAT^ * 1<
TRANSACTION HERE 1
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Wm. M. Barnwell has sold his e
store on the corner of the Public!
Square and Washington Street, n
known as Knox's Corner, to Mr. a
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Adair, of Clinton, the proprietor of j a
the Hot Hustler Racket. The price t:
paid was $12,995. Mr. Barnwell| tl
bought this store a few year ago for; ti
$10,000. He has therefore made a'
neat profit on his investment. But I ?
some people still say that Abbeville I tl
does not grow. J P
The sale was made through the;
South Atlantic Realty Company, and | n
R. S. Link, one of our live dealers, ~
who today will offer for sale the ?
several ftorehouses on the Eastern n
side of the square. If you want to t
get in the running in real estate it t
, will pay you to own property on the |
public square. When the paving is t
! completed it will sell for a profit of s
| twenty-five per cent if bought judi- ?
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ciousiy. i
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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS, t
In addition to the sale of the Knox t
Corner, three other real estate trans- p
i actions involving large amounts have Y
| been made in the last few days. v
Messrs. Albert Henry and W. F. r
j Nickles have purchased within the
j last few days from J. Alston Cabell
! of Richmond, Va., the Cabell lot ly
ing between Branch Street and!
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; Washington Street, and adjoining, 5
' the lot. of the Southern Railwav.! ?
The price was $7,000.00 J g
Yesterday Messrs. Albert Hen- j
ry, D. H. Hill, R. C. Philson and; h
Otto Bristow purchased from J. Al-, s
len Smith the four stores on Wash- n
ington Street now occupied by W. T. h
j Cason, T. H. Maxwell, the Chinese
Laundry and L. A. Richey. The pur-j s
chase price is $12,500.00. r I i<
Yesterday Mr. T. G. White sold;y
to J. F. McAllister, of Williamston, i a
; his Smith place on Long Cane, con-jj
taining 525 acres, for $21,000. j >
1 Mr. McAllister plans to move to |
Abbeville at an early date, and to j
begin the Anderson plan of farming j
| on these fertile lands. He promises j
to bring other Anderson County i ^
j farmers to Abbeville. This, with the *
activities of the real estate agents, ^
means more land transactions and a
constantly increasing prices. 0
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ENTERTAINING LIEUT. DOZIER.J v
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Lieutenant and Mrs. D. Townsend t
Smith, Jr., had aa their guests for p
tea on Thursday evening, Miss Myrtle
McLeskey and Lieutenant "Jim- h
mie" Dozier, of Rock Hill. ii
1EC0RD UTTER
SHYS BURLESON
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"act* as to Convict* Placed Before
Congress?Replies to Post?Postmaster
General Also Again Die
cutset Repeal of Zone Potfcal
Rate Law.
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Washintgon, April 26.?Replying
ate today to a telegram from Char- .
es Johnson Post, director of the
lablishers advisory board, regarding. '
he use of convict labor on his plan- ^4
ation in Texas, Postmaster General
lurleson said:
"Answering.your wire. The full '
acts in connection with the lease to
he State bf Texas of the plantation
n which I was interested, upon $
rhich the State used itB convicts la- ror
and the terms of the contract in
onnection therewith, have been <
laced before the congress more '{''?0
han once and have long been a mat- ' .
pr of -nnblie r*?cnrd. Tt wnnld v
iuite interesting for yon to publish : ',v:
ow and later have laid before conress
the facts in the same detail
j ' , 1 . v.bout
moneys raised and spent to
ecnre the repeal of the zone postage
ate law. Of course you know# as v
he New York World did when it
ublished that .falsehood, that I did
ot use convict labor on my plantaion,
but that the plantation wits
>ased and cultivated by the State of
'exas and the convicts used thereon
rere.at all tiroes junker the State's
xclusive control and manaegm ent."
Later Mr. Burleson issued a. state- / iiM
lent declaring that the resolutions ' ;;
dopted yesterday by the publishers'' ssociation
committed it to "a petiion
for the repeal or suspension of
he law increasing the rate of posage
on newspapers and magazines."
"This makes ^the issue plain," said
Ir. Burleson's statement. "Should
he law be repealed or should it be
emitted to stand?"
The statement that the nublic and
ot the publisher suffers by the zone
ate is an insult to the intelligence
f the American people. However,
auch selfish publishers may attempt
o camouflage the^ situation the
houghtful, intelligent reader will /
iot lose sihgt of the real issue: Shall
he old time $72,000,000 postal subidy,
taken from the pocket of other
isers of the mails, be restored to the
ew parasite publishers who have for
'ears plundered thel postal reve- |
lues?" '
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"It shall not be if by the use of
he bludgeon of truth the present
lostmaster general can pound the
lonest facts into the minds of those \
ipon whom the final responsibility
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esis. ,
COMING HOME.
News was received in Abbeville on Saturday
of the safe arrival at Newlort
News, on the previous day, of
Sergeant Andrew White of Base
lospital 41. Sergeant White has
ieen seeing' overseas service for
ome months, and it will be pleasant
iews to his friends to know that he
as returned safely.
Frank Wardlaw is anotner overeas
soldier who has returned. He
3 a son of Mr. George Wardlaw,
rho lives on the McCormick road,
nd has been in active service in
'ranee for sometime. He landed in
few .York on yesterday.
MR. WILSON BjURNED OUT.
Mr. Joe Wilson, one of the good
armers of Abbeville County, had
he misfortune to have his home
urned down Thurday evening. Mr.
nd Mrs. Wilson were not at home,
nly the children being on the piazza
nd the fire had made such headway
rhen discovered that only the piano
nd a bed or two was saved. All
heir years supply of meat ?nd
revisions was lost.
Mr. Wilson had dropped some ofN
is insurance recently and his loea
) a serious one.