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Kf i * " * i ] v . ' - r ' - v * . v,- ?. - < , '' ; ' 'i ' " . . ; ' X:v; - V Q * i , ' . v"M Abbeville Press and Banner Established 1844. $2.0(1 the Year. 'Abbeville, S. C., Friday, May 9, 1919. Single Copies, Five Cento. 75th Year. - * , ? SPECIAL SESSION CONGRESS CALLED Not Likely That President Wilson Will Attend Opening?To Attend ? ?" "l - _c tto Kevenue Bins vMirmBu u> Committees Are Summoned to Washington. Washington, May 8.?President ilson issued a call by cable yesteriy for a special session of congress meet Monday, May 19. Secretary Tumulty, in making the nouncement, said it would be imssible, of course, for the president be here on the opening day. The te fixed for the special session was !ch earlier than democratic leadhad expected. Vhite House officials said that in aing an early date for the session, sident Wilson was guided largely the advice of Secretary Glass} to the necessity of passing an1 appropriation measures which ed in the closing days of the session. < 'he proclamation of the president the special session ' announced Secretary Tumulty was: , Whereas, public intrfest requires ; congress of the United States ild be convened in extra session O nVlAMr nnnn <in nineteenth day of May, i.919, to receive such communications as may be made by the executive; Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, president of the Unit^ States >f America, do hereby proclaim and leclare that an an extraordinary ocsasion requires'the congress of the Jnited States to convene hi extra lession at the capitol in the District >f Columbia on the nineteenth day >f May, 1919, at 12 o'clock noon, of irhich all persons who shall be at hat time entitled to act as mem?ers thereof are hereby required to ake notice. . Given under my hand and seal of he United fStates of America, the eventh day of May, in the year of ur Lord, one thousand nine hundred nd nineteen, and of the indepen<lnce of the United States, the one undred and forty-third.. WOODROW WILSON. , Return Not Known. There was no information at the iThite House either as to the probate time of the return of the presient from France or the submission f the peace treaty to the senate, ut some administration leaders beeved the president had called the xtra session earlier than had been nticipated. in order that congress tight perfect its organization and ispose of the more important apr/Ynrinf.inn mpnsiirf>R ViAfore the! Ieatf was ready for consideration.' j Republicans of the* house virtually ave completed their organization,: at the senate has done no organiza-j on work and this probably will oclpy its attention for the first week r more of the special session. Th* Duse, however, can be considering le appropriation measures in the jeantime. The supply bills that faitl in the last congress will be intropced anew, but the secretary of the Ieasury has decided it will not be scessary for the government departents to submit new estimates. House and senate republican aders today sent out calls to chairen of important committees to hur' to Washington that appropriation 11 may be whipped into shape by li'tn e\ nvf ro oAcoSnn TOflflfe I. OtOOIVIi UiVV> VU) CROSS SEA FLIGHT OFF. New' oTfck, May 8;?Te first translantic flight was begun when three C. (Navy-Curtiss) hydro-airplanes t the government's air station at ckaway Beach at ten a. m., today the first leg of the journey? - -. * ?? - . m saw ay to ? wmw V V V DUE WEST GOES OVER. V v; v V Due West has gone over the V V top in the Victory Loan and V V will get an honor flag. This, V. V in contrast to the showing V V made in Abbeville where only V ^ $30,000 of the quota has V V been raised. W. M. Barnwell, V V chairman of the Victory Lib- V V erty Loan Committee asks V IV that all who wish to can make V IV their subscriptions direct to V ^ TVin lnnfollmonf W "V tile UailAJd* xug JMOVniluiviiv V plan, as outlined by the sec- V V retary of the treasury, allpws V V until November 11 in which V V to pay for bonds. V V The following telegram V V from Due West tells the V V story: V V W. M. Barnwell, Chairman, V V Abbeville, S. C. V V Please order honor flag for V V Due West, our quota reached. V V D. S. Edwards. V V V MUCH ACM IN REAL ESTATE Many Important Real Estate Deals in City?Business Houses, Lots, Residences, and Other Property ^Changes Hand?More Activity Thin in Years. Among the many important realj estate deals consummated in Abbe-| ville recently was^the sale of half interest invthe Phoenix Realty company by J. Allen Smith to R. C. i Philson,- D. H. Hill, Albert Henry i and Frank Nickles. The price paid I was $41,000. This property is situated on Main and Trinity streets and in it are thirteen store rooms. i J. Allen Smith sold this afternoon the old Richard Roman stables to J. S. Bowie, the price paid being $4,000. He also sold to Dr. G. E. Calvert the old lumber yard of the Abbeville Lumber company, near the Seaboard depot for $7500. It is understood j that a fertilizer mixing plant will be* located on this property. There is already a siding there and the location is suited for such a plant. The storeroom occupied by the J. M. Anderson Co., was bought Tuesday by Charlie Janides, proprietor of : the Dixie Restaurant, the price be! ing $10,000. This building wasj ! bought a yreek ago by Messrs. Barn| well, Stark and. Greene for $8,000. j an advance of 25 per cent, which shows the condition of the real es-1 | tate market in Abbeville at the j present time. I J. Allen Smith sold the storehouse ' 1 nm attt A/1 T I . | vu luaxii umcci xivn uttupicu ujr t/*| i Allen Smith, Jr., to the latter, the( | price paid being $5500. The building-' j is now being used for a warehouse, j i ! ' i: The Abbeville Realty Co., has sold j ; the lot and residence next to the Press and Banner office for $3100. WATCH GREENVILLE STREET. Among the sales of real estate, , I which have been takin gplace in the;, j city every few minutes lately, the J. most noteworthy, in society circles, is the sale of a portion of the lot of | Mrs. L. W. Perrin, to Col. Furniture Kerr. The lot is in the. shape of a piece of pie and-about the same size. ; The price paid was $2350, which in one dollar "Williams" will cover the j whole lot, and build a fence around it. We do qot mean to say that the price paid was too high?far from that, b+a$am the lot is on that street where all thfe swells already live and on the street where all the Mamstreetites hope to reside some day. K&t expects to erect shortly y t ' s / , ' <>r V .1 ... A t * ' WILL ABBEVIl ON VIC ; Less Than Fourth of 1 Rally Friday Night. C / 18 th Infantry and Talk. City and Count spond. Workers Wi That Abbeville and Abbeville b County are about to fall down in a $ <gi most ignomiuous manner on raising the quota for the Victory Liberty p Loan is a fact. The county com- a mittee states that less than onefourth of the quota has been raised ^ and the campaigp closes Saturday night. ' x , * ei The men's committee arid, the $ women's committee will make a final b effort to raise the quota this week, a But success will not attend their ef- tl forts unless the citizens of this county respond. g On Friday night there will be 0 open air exercises in the square1 un- ^ der the auspices of the woman's 0 committee. Chaplain J. Sproles Lyons, 118th Infantry, 30th Division, and Mrs. 0. L. Slatter, Colum- ^ bia, will made addresses. There will 8 $ also be talks from returned soldiers. * The Camp Jackson Glee Club will q furnish music. It is expected that a large crowd will attend these exer- p cises and it is hoped that much of a the quota will be raised by Saturday night. ^ ' 'v; ? On Saturday the women's commit* q tee will be out in force on' the o square and no potential subscriber F ( will have a chance to escape from doing his duty. There will be Reti p Cross nurses and Salvation Army lassies on the streets, nor just to add a a touch of 9prightliness to the scene, h a mansion which will ^e a"*model of a beauty as well as of convenience and ^ housely comforts. He will lie awake s< several nights figuring how much ft extra money he will be able to spend ( on the house*and surroundings. It,b< is possible that Brother Austin and^F Cousin Percy will come down to of-^B fer advice on how the thing shall be( * done. But whoever offers advice it'Is, o1 certain, that there will be a large P dining room where a turkey. dinner w will be served every day at the ap- A propriate hour, (when he gets rich,) and a den where setback will . be ^ played by the Greenville Street experts. , Watch Greenville street grow. NEGRO CUTS WIFE. jj cl Frost Davis, negro, cut his wife ki four times in the back Tuesday ev- Si ening about 8 o'clock on Church ^ ci street then departed for parts un-j known. His wife was given medical 01 attention, it being necesssary to} tli take several stitches in the cuts. It j th was the second time that Davis had w cut his wife, the first occurring stfv- fc eral weeks ago. For the first offense he was 'fined $30. vi DA\rn fccvir n rrnAM Dwm/ ujfL, &LC.V i iv/n* For the special bond issue election in Abbeville Tuesday, May 13, 226 voters have registered. It seems to ai be the consensus of opinion that the st bond issue will carry by a substan- *r tial majority. But it is urged that w the proponents of the measure come out and vote to a man in order to w pile up as big a majority as possible. The bond issue is for $90,000. MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES. Si Plans for the annual Memorial w Day exercises on Saturday, May 10, ai have been made and the day promis- ti< es to be one of unusual ihteres?r A m large number of veterans -from the county will attend and there; vpll bg p C v it * f * * ? x . . ' & ?E FAIL TORY LOAN? D 1 l y^uuiu i\aiscu. vjru/iu haplain Lyons of The Mrs. Slatter Will / \yA re Urged toRe11 Be in Saturday ut to act aa canvassers. It is hoped hat there will be enough returned aldiers out in uniform to accomany each girl. No argument spokerf re otherwise depicted is to be over>oked in bringing out the whys and wherefores of this loan. Free lemonade will be served at booth on the square. It is expectd that the workers from Due West nd Calhoun Falls will arrive in Ab eville late Saturday - afternoon to id in canvassing the people from iev country. For the'first four Liberty Loans outh Carolina had the proud record f having subscribed a total of $83,59,200 exceeding its quota in each f the campaigns. ? The close of the second week of lie Fifth or Victory Liberty Loan Campaign finds a total of official iibscriptions from South Carolina of 2,652,000, which is 10.63% of its uota.. i But a few days of the campaign eriod remains. Faithful workers re urged fo exert every effort so lat the final campaign may prove a tting climax to the splendid record f South Carolina, and be an un-. uestioned support of the Secretary f the Treasury, who is .from the ifth District? And this city and county is exected to do its bit. The quota for city and county is bout $250,000. It is no time to esitate. SUBSCRIBE. goodly sprinkling of returned forld War veterans. Dinner will be jrved this year to the veterans by [iss Maggie Bropks. The speakers of the occasion will e W. C. Shaw, of Lowndesville, J. . Gibert, Lowndesville, and C. A. otts, Abbeville. The exerciser will begin at 11 'clock and will include a musical rogram. The children of the cityj ill decorate the monument wittfj owers as has been the custom. EGRO SHOOTING AT FRIENDSHIP SUNDAY Henry Harris, negro, 23 years old, as arrested by Deputy Sheriff Cann [onday afternoon at Honea Path, larged wi,th shooting with intent to ill Tom Davis at Friendship church anday afternoon. The trouble ocirred over a woman. , K Harris snot rnvis nve times out; lly one bullet took effect, piercing < te intestines. Davis was taken to j le hospital at Anderson, where itj as said that he had small chances' ir recovery. Harris was brought to the Abbelle jail. STEALS JEWELRY. . i x Jake Manning, a white man, was' Tested Tuesday on the charge of! ealing a lavaliere and ' stick pin j om the home of J. L. Burrell,! here he was painting. The stolen >qds were found on his person. He as fined $25 by Mayor Mars. : i !/ VACATION HAS COME. Miss Margaret Bradley and Miss jsie Stevenson have finished their ork at the Antreville school, and ?e at home for the swnroer vacaon. Both ylwing ladies hav/e been st successful, Miss Bradley as a juSher and Miss Stevenson with the % V V V WINS GERMAN TROPHY. S. v" ^ V S. A. Wilson, aischool boy V V of Calhoun Falls, was the V V winner of the German vhel- V V met,, offere'd for the best slo- V V gan submitted to the Liberty V V Loan committee. The slo- V V gan that won follows: V k. - W ^ oume ujl uur jouya are over x, K. ... there yet, V V But the Victory Loan will V V bring them home, you V V bet," V V This boy will be a guest V V of the Woman's Committee V V of the Liberty Loan cam- V IV paign here on Saturday. V V V I MEWHOSPTTAL More Than $7,000 Raised By Canvassing Committee?Little Opposition?Name for Institution Suits All?Rest of Money Be Raised Soon. ?. I ? Application has been made for the; charter of the Abbeville County Memorial Hospital, the necessary. 20 percent of ?he $10,000 hospital Stock having been subscribed: In fact more than $7,000 has been subscribed. There is little doubt that the rest of the money needed will be raised. The canvassing committee met little opposition. There were a few people who refused to subscribe, but for the most part the citizens were willing and anxious to assist in bringing to pass a hospital in Abbej ville. The fact that it is to be namj ed the Abbeville County Memorial j Hospital in honoj; of the Abbeville I County boys who served in the J army and navy won the project many i friends. TEACHERS ELECTED. Miss Celeste Ervin, of Manning, S. C., was elected Wednesday at a meeting of the School Board to teach in the first grade of the city schools.. She is a graduate of Win-i throp and has been teaching during j the past year at Williston. Miss Margaret Thompson, daughter of P.-of. J. W. Thompson, of WintI , was elected to teacj In the pi lary department, subject to assignn "nt by the superintendent. Miss .lathleen Fairey, of Easley, S. C., has been elected to teach in 6th grade. She is a graduate of Winthrop. Miss Ora Lee Thompson has been -3 X- I t. il ** namea to teacn in xne vtn graae. She taught last year in the High ] Schpol at Denmark, and is a gradu- 1 ate of Winthrop. Her home is in 1 Orangeburg. . iJ Miss Mamie Addison, graduate of ' the Woman's College, Richmond, 1 Va., has been elected to teach In 1 the 1st grade. She taught last year * at Horrell Hill, S. C. ' The following have been recom- ' mended to fill vacancies in the Abbe^ 1 ville schools: Miss Lucille Turney, of,? Gaffney, who taught last year at * Denmark, and Miss Mel Lee Daniel, ( of Landrum, S. C. She also taught c last year at Denmark. 1 ( 12 NEGROES IN CRAP GAME. * Twelve negroes were arrested Wednesday night by officers Johnson t and McLane for shooting craps. It 1 cost each one $10 when they ap- t peared before Mayor Mars Thursday 1 morning. t j MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL ? Because of the election on Tues- * day and for other reasons the meet- ? ing of the city council, which was to 1 have been held Tuesday night, haa, 1 been postponed and will. probably 1 be held Friday of next week, definite announcement to be made later. i * ..i ;.\ GERMANY RECEIVES TREATY OE PEACE \ : . : [ 4 Renders Germany Powerless u War . ' ' ntcbme?Muit fay 0amages of , War?France to Be Fully Protected. Versailles, May 7.?Germany today was told the terms upon which , the allied and associated powers will make peace with her. . > These terms were Contained in a * /< treaty some 80,000 words in length, . which.was handed to the German plenipotentiaries at a memorable as- , semblage here, attended by the delegates of the twenty-sevn nations . Jr, which are parties to the peace pact. !" V This notable document, on which * ' the leading statesmen of the various ; nations, together with a swaiin of | experts from the principal countries involved^ have been working sincoj the convening of the peace conference on January 18, is introduced by an extensive preafmble, embodying the assertion of authority upon \ which the treaty is based. Immediately following is the first chapter, the covenant of the League of Nations, the text of which already has been , printed. Of tbe fourteen principal' section^, one contains stipulations with regard to frontiers which materially changes the. maps / of Europe. Military, naval and air' terms are dealt with in another sec- v tion, w6fle still another is devoted to the subject of reparationgfPolitical stipulations for Europe; on the ; ' one l(and, and outside of it, on the other, are dealt, with in separate / divisions of the document. The treaty, it is noted, has to do ^ with Germany .alone, except in so far as it is required that she accept agreements made by the allies with the other central powers. The document, long as it is, is shorter than was indicated by some of the forecasts, which estimated its length at 100,000 words. The treaty is not printed in German. The text is in French and . English, on opposite pages. . v The terms of the treaty spell the x end of Germany as a military power. She is deprived of virtually all her fleet, her army is cut down to nominal dimensions and she is sharply restricted along lines through which Bhe might seek to work militarily to rehabilitate herself. Economically, also, the future course of Germany is hedged about with stipulations intended to insure her ability to pay the indemnity demanded by the allies, but to prevent her from ex- ? ploitmg her old-time resources as a strangling competitor of the nations ibout her which she overran and devastated during'the war. Following tfte preamble and disposition of powers comes the disposition of the League of Nations which is the first section of the treaty. The frontiers of Germany in Europe are defined in the second section; European political classes given in the ihird; European political classes in o i,? t'u XT?L ? - * iuuii/u< vicai are military, naval ind air terms as the fifth section, folowed by section on prisoners of war md military graves; seventh on responsibilities. Reparations, financial erms and economic terms are covered in sections eight to ten. Then :omes the aeronautic section, ports, waterways and railways; the section >n labor covenant, section on guarintees and financial clauses. "Germany, by the terms of the ;reaty, restores Alsace-Lorraine to France, accepts the internationaliza;ion of the Sarre Basin, temporarily, md of Danzig permanently, agrees ;o territorial changes toward Belgium and Denmark and ih East Pruslia, cedes most of Upper Silesia to I Poland, and renounces all territorial ind political rights outside of Eu ope as to her own or her Allies teritories and 'especially to Morocco, 2gypt, Siam, Liberia ana* Shantung. She alio recognises total independ(Continned oh Psg6 Elgjit) : **.' -?" V* ' 3 i, "M j j ; / . .' * p. v. j