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\ . ' ' - . ( vv f > Abbeville Press and Banner gtablighed 1844. $2 00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, July 29, 1919. Single Copies, Five Cento. 75th Year. I HIE BiBLE ! SOCIETY MEETS! iual Session Held Sunday Night t A. P. Church?Collection I For Year $158.50?Officers ! and Delegates Elected?Rev. L J. Bristow Preached Sermon. he Abbeville Auxiliary Bible So-J y held its annual meeting in the jciate Reformed Presbyterian i rch Sunday evening, July 27,' 3. Rev. J. L. Daniel, president, j sd the meeting to order and' m No. 324 was sung. Verses' i the second chapter of the Book1 [ebrews was read by Rev. Louis! ristow after which the Rev. H.' Pratt lead in prayer. Collection * * ? Qn. itaken lor tne Amereau r. Minutes of the last meeting ; read and approved. . j r. Otto Bristow, treasurer, re>d the following amount collect-, Dr the Abbeville society this : $158.50. e report was received as infor-j >n and on motion of Judge J. F. d the funds were appropriated e parent society. a -fniiiYnnnp- officers were elect-j il ? ; jr next year: p. Loais J. Bristow, president ;j |j. L. Daniel, 1st vice president;' |H. W. Pratt, 2::d vice presdent; |M. R. Plaxco, 3rd vice presdent;; ICason, secretary: Otto Bristow,1 pry. kcutive Committee: J. F. Miller,' I IBristow, Lewis Perrin, C. D. p, Fred Cason. pgates to the District Society held in the Prebyterian church , July 30, at 11 a. m. :j Louis J Bristow, Rev. H. W.! Rev. J. L. Daniel, Rev. M. R. i I, Messrs. S. J. Link, W. M.l rell, J. M? Gamhrell, Alf Lyon L B. Cheatham business of the society being p Rev. L. J. Bristow preached] pual sermon, Hebrew 2:6, 9. j Fred Cason, Sec. r. H. W. Pratt To Montreat. | Rev. H. W. Pratt will go to iat, N. C., Wednesday to atn educational conference of athern Presbyterian church. k Strickland, after seeing 12 service in France, arrived in i on Monday. His sister and elatives were in the city, but )t expecting him. He was at I to the yuanermasi/Ci a ut-( it, and rendered faithful ser-| his country. He has received; orable discharge and will rew to civil pursuits. "" _ 1 I ie From the Seat of War. i I I Cheatham is at home from) of war. He is hack in citi-j thes and looks as natural as^ he had never seen Paris andj fight. lily, reunion was held at ths his father, Mr. P. A. Cheatnday. Dr. and Mrs. M. W.! i n, of Columbia; Mr. andi i B. Cheatham and Miss Nariatham, of Charlotte, and Mr.l C. D. Cowan and children, tgton, were among those ' Comes Marching Home. ' Lyon, who left Abbeville ars ago a barefoot boy, is n a full grown man, having 5 time in the navy and helple war. ' is spending a few days I. W. W. Bradley and is cordial welcome. ther Higgason and his two; ughters, Misses Elizabeth! Lee, came down from Ashe-J rday to visit Mr. Higgason's| 5. Joe Wilson. j BAPTIST DRIVE FOR LOCAL QUOTA OF $75,000,000 BEGINS A series of Baptist meetings are being held in the homes of members' in different parts of the town, pre-' paratory to the great campaign for' ?75,0UU,UUU wnicn is now nemg launched by Southern Baptists for missions and benevolence. The 'drive' for cash and pledges to the campaign1 will not be made till the first week in December, but the time interven-: is to be used for informing the people and bringing every member into line with the work. The Rev. Lous Bristow, pastor of the Baptist church of Abbeville, was elected by the campaign committee to be one of five men from the whole South to be in charge of the campaign, but declined the plcae that he might remain with his church during the campaign. Had he accepted the work it would have required him to move to Nashville, Tenn., for the next four or five months, having his church supplied by other preachers during his absence. The first of the series of local residence meetings was held last night at the home of Mr. S. A. McCuen. Another will be held tonight at the residence of Mr. T. V. Howie, and other meetings will be held Thursday and Friday evenings. The same schedule will be observed next week, the meetings being held in different places each evening, for the convenence of the members and friends. Home On a Visit. Capt. W. L. Hemphill arrived in Abbeville last Thursday night on his fiiSt vist in five years. He has just arrived from overseas and has a fif' -? 1 leen aays itcivt: ueiuic vaug *uuotered out of service. The young man looks well and is in splendid spirits. He was loathe to leave Paris for with his home-coming he has had to switch from light wines to coca cola, which he says is "some switch." Th^e last four months of his stay abroad was in Paris, where he attended the Sorbonne. He passed the Paris "White House" every day and had several good looks, at President Wilson. He met and had a chat with Miss Lucia Parker. He met also, Willie Lyon, who is now an energetic Y. M. C. A. worker, and while at Headquarters Capt. Hemphill's assistant was Lieut. Gibert, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gibert of Willington. Off to New York. Miss Eliza Lindsay, the capable manager of the Hot Hustler Racket Store, leaves Wednesday for Clinton where she will join Mr. E. J. Adair and^go on to the Northern markets. She is going to buy a stock of goods which will make the Hot Hustler Racket step right up to the head of the procession of the stores in its line of business. Home from tamp. Mioses Mary White, Florence and Maria Neuffer and Janie Vance Bowla Lave returned from a three weeks >t?.y at "Camp As You Like It." It rains as hard in North Carolina as it does in South Carolina, but it did not effect tne spirits of the young campers who had a delightful time. NEW STORE IN PROSPECT FOR THIS CITY SOON r\-f rirflonwnnfl wjiq in Abbeville Saturday looking for a location of a branch store of the American Woolen Mills. Mr. DuPre is a native of this county and for a long while was in business here. He is now manager of a store of the American Woolen Mills in Greenwood. Going to the Mountains. Mrs. C. D. Brown, Miss Louise and Miss Charlotte Brown left Monday for Waynesville, N. C., where they Will spend some time. RAILROAD COMMISSION TO CONSIDER RAISE IN RATES IN SEPTEMBER j Tha State Railroad Commission will meet here the first week in Sen tember to consider the question of j a raise in the telephone rates which' was asked for at the last meeting of the city council. The raise was approved by the aldermen and was then taken to the State body by Wm. | M. Barnwell, of the Telephone com! pany. SPENDING MILLIONS IN DYESTUFF EXPERIMENTS! Philadelphia, July 26.?Millions of! | dollars are being expended by A-j j merican manufacturers of dyestuffsj | to meet the expected competition of! | Germany, according to a bulletin is- j sued yesterday by the American j I Chemical society. All that energy and research canj do is being directed toward perfec-i ' tion of that group of colors known j as the vat dyes. One large corpora-j tion has already expended $1,800,- j '000 in experiments toward the prep-1 aration of the much desired colors. Vat dyes like(indigo are insoluble in water, dilute acids and alkalis, but when treated with certain chemicals hold compounds which can be dissolved in alkaline solutions. These compounds upon being exposed to the air are acted upon by the oxygen in such a way that the original coli oring matter forms anew in the fiber which has been dyed, thus what appears to be a liquid as clear asj water in the vats is often the source of brilliant hues. Vat colors have their characteristic fastness because of the very insolubility of the original dyestuffs. Fabrics dyed with them resist the action of washing, of light and strong soaps. Hence they are chiefly used for coloring the cotton material of women's iblouses andj shirtwaists, men's shirts, and fabrics which often go to the laundry. As these colors are so greatly noo^oH if. has heen nrontosed that they may be imported from foreign countries for the next five years under special license. They would be subject to the unusual tariff accord! ing io the legislation now being considered by the ways and means com! mittee of the house of representa, tives which for several weeks have i been holding extensive hearings on i the dye situation. The great cost of promoting a ! native dye industry comes in putting i into practical application on a large j scale the work of the labratory. Of j the hundreds of dyes which were | manufactured^ abroad before 1914. I there is scarcely one which could J not be made by American chemists i on a small scale under laboratory i conditions. When the wholesale opnrr.tici back's, however, there r.rcij j many obstacles which can only be ! overcome by practice. For example, j one of the largest plants engaged in ; the manufacture of American dyes J expended in one year $845,000 ir, J ^orthe factory process of ?.1 j c'rtr'in dye. Owing to uherpcctecl I difficulties in manufacture it has1 I j ; been able to produce only $30,000j I -"or4Ih cr dye. These difficulties, how-1 J ever, are being rapidly overcome. J Death of a Little Boy. Friends in Abbeville heard with great regret Sunday of the death of! William Renwick, the one year old | son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bradleyj of Columbia. The little hoy died Sat- j urday afternoon and was buried Sunday afternoon at five o'clock at ElmI wood eemeterv. The bereaved parents have the sin-1 j cere sympathy of a wide circle of | relatives and friends in Abbeville j and surrounding country. V \ V COTTON MARKET. V V Cotton sold on local mar- V j V. ket yesterday for 34 cents. V | V October futures closed in V ! V New York at 34.65. V ww vVVVVVVVVV \ v % NEW FIRE ENGINE A] MAKES FINE SHOWING AT FIRST REAL TEST A fire broke out in a frame building on Church street last Thursday vil night at 12 o'clock and before itj he could be extinguished practically 11 gutted the structure. It was the T1 first time that the new fire engine th had been given a chance to show pr what it could do and the test was ch satisfactory in every respect. en mi? w,.n+? t> r X lie uunumg uciuiigcu uu x . *-* \ [J t! Speed and was occupied by negroes, I * ' e i the downstairs being used for a soft SI drink stand and the upstairs was used 'by Chaney Jones for a shoe shop. The loss in shoes was rather heavy. ni; PRESIDENT DENIES . Wi HIS WIFE FOUND inj HOSPITAL CRUELTY gli ... v cu Washington, July 27.?President th Wilson in a-letter to Representative r.i Dallinger, Republican, of Massachu- Nj setts, made public tonight, charac- ac terized as "entirely inaccurate" a fo recently published statement by John ca W. Kehoe, a hospital superintendent of the Knights of Colum/bus, that to Mrs. Wilson obtained personal evi- be dence in Paris of brutal treatment pi: of American military prisoners. A dispatch from New York quoted tu Mr. Kehoe as saying that Mrs. Wil- M: son while at base hospital number 57 J th was beckoned to the cot of a soldier j "n who displayed "numerous welts on la1 his arms and back" and that she reported this to the president, with the lai result that "the entire guard staff tic were brought up on charges and re- ex moved." mi In the correspondence with the hi| president, given out by Mr. Dallin- ba ger, the latter quoted from the tn newspaper .account and asked for ad- $1 ditior.d! information so that he might! I "learn from the war department thejCCpunishment meted out to those (re guilty." ! de The president replied as follows: th "My Dear Mr. Dallinger: I ch "The newspaper article to which! ho you refer in your letter to me of July] ha 21st was entirely inaccurate. Ms. | gr Wilson saw no evidences of violence i Ai " A 5 ? ? 1-? ?m Vnaal f.!*! cn tne patient wriom sjic mci> iu u?e ? hospital number 57, and her inquir- L< ies brought out the fact that where- sy as one cf the prisons used by the in; American army in Paris had been de- bt; livered to them in a very bad condi- wl tion, the conditions had been rapidly av corrected, and such harsh treatment as had been practiced in one or two instances had been promptly checked. "Very sincerely yours, "WOODROW WILSON." a Wi Gi VICTORY BUTTONS, WHERE, ea ANE> WUW TO Utt iAlPi intm h The Victory Button is a small lapel button for wear on civilian clothing. It will be issued to all officers, enlisted men (excluding members of ye 'e S. A. T. C.), field clerks, and gj u embers of the Army Nurses Corps gh who have served honorably on active na duty for a period of at least fifteen ai days between April 7, 1917 and Nov- re ember 11, IL918 The button will be jn of silver fo:: those wounded in action j and of bronze for all others. Those who have been discharged1 hdfnrp t.hp sunnlv of Victorv Buttons was available for issue may secure a Victory Button by bringing or mail-; n.n ing to the Army Recruiting Station,1 ur 35 Barnard Street, Savannah, Geor-i n0 gia, their Original Discharge Cer- j pe tificate or, in the case of officers who > T1 never received a discharge certifi-; an cate, the Official Copy of the order] ne upon which they were discharged. | of Claim Blanks for the issue of Victory Buttons must accompany the 60 dscharge certificate or discharge or-J der. These blanks can be obtained, from the Army Recruiting Station ori Savannah or Brunswick, Ga. Char- fri leston, Columbia, Florence, Green- Fa ville, Rock Hill, or Spartanburg, S. W C., and should be filled in complete- Th ly when the claim is made for the^ ad issue of a Victory Button. Further, ca information is given on page 32, m< "Where do we go from here?" I da MNUAL MEETING OF THE ABBEVILLE COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY HERE WEDNESDAY The annual meeting of the Abbelle County Bible Society will be Id here Wednesday morning at o'clock in the Presbyterian church j le Rev. Ross Lynn, president of e Thornwell. Orphanage will each. Delegates from all the urches in the county wiil be prest and an interesting meeting is excted. CELTON WILLIAMS DENIES CHARGES 1 ' i Washington, July 27.?General de- | al of.charges made against him is entered before the senate bankg committee Saturday by John ;elton Williams, comptroller of the rrency. Mr. Williams defended e administration of his office, deed that he had persecuted the Riggs itional bank of .this city, and char- ( terized Frank J. Hogan, attorney r bank officials in the Riggs bank se, as a "rapid-fire falsifier." Samuel Untermyer, New York atrney, will appear in ,Mr. Williams' half Monday and the comptroller ans to make a closing statement. ! In defending the treasury's attide toward the Riggs National bank, r. Williams charged officials of! at institution up to 1914 with multitudinous infractions of the sv." C He charged that millions of dolrs had been loaned by that institu>n to persons who had no security cept the stock they bought ,on a irginal account and which was jhly speculative. Asked if the 5 ,nl: suffered any losses, the comp-'l I j slier said he knew of only one of j 8,000. 11 . , , t h Closing his statement before- itihe mmittee, Mr. Williams renewed his.1 quest that Representative McFad-11 n, of Pennsylvania, appear before 1 e committee to substantiate ^ arges made recently before a ? use committee that Mr. Williams1 ,d received a share of, a commission owing out of the dsposal of the 1 rlington hotel site here to the easury department. Chairman Mc- ' ;an said he had notified the Penn- 1 lvania congressman that the hear- ^ g-s would be closed early next weeK 1 it added that he was hot sure j tiether the senate committee had rthority to summon Mr. McFadden. ' Gone to Atlanta. ] Mrs. W. H. White left Thursday 1 r Atlanta, where she will go into hospital for treatment. Mrs. White 1 is accompanied by Miss Helen J iild. Everyone wishes for her an i rly recovery of her usual good;" . I . salth. i i 1 Infant Son Diet. 1 William Renwick Bradley, one ar old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. adley of 2825 Blossom Street, landon, died at the home of his rents yesterday afternoon. Fuher- ( services will be conducted at the | sidence this afternoon at 5 o'clock, j terment will be in Elmwood Ceme- \ ry.?The State. ] t Held On Serious Charge. : \ T,vo youiifc oes, Arthur Rouse|j d Buck White, were arrested Sat-1 day on a serious charge and arei w being held in the County jail, I nding action of the grand jury.i le negroes are about 17 years old, d live near Little Mountain. The, ^ gro girl in the case lives just east c town. K I FARMERS FROM THIS c COUNTY ATTEND CLEMSON s Sixty fanners and club members j am Abbeville county, attended! .rmers* Week last Tuesday andjt ednesday at Clemson College, j I lose who attended were mostly j i ult farmers. The trip was made in a rs, leaving Abbeville early Tuesday s jrning and returning late Wednes- \ y evening. i WE RUG IN CHICAGO SUNDAY Numerous Clashes Occur With Loss Of Life?Starts Near Beach? Fighting Seemingly Precipitated L? W D.I! Ci.ll uy iicgrucB 1 uutc laiiuui Emptied Of Reserves. Chicago, July 27.?A series of riots in the negro district late today esulted in the drowning of one ne*ro, the reported drowning of a white man, probably fatal injury of another negro, the wounding of a polceman and injury to a score of svhite people and negroes by bullets Dr missiles. Police tonight said they had the situation well in hand. The trouble started at the 29th Street beach where white people and negroes are segregated and soon jpread to State Street, the main thor- ' Dughfare in the heart of the negro district, which extends about five miles. Shooting started near the Deach, and there was also some shooting in the vicinity of State Street. Although ill feeling between the races on the South Side, has extended jver a period of months, emphasized oy bomb explosions, some shooting . ^ J ? mV 4- n +A/4 Atr'n m Af O inu iiumcruuo ngiiLa, iuuaj> a hvh ieem to have had their start in petty quarreling at the beach. Start of Trouble. y Reports that negroes wandered icross the dividing .line 'to the white section of the beach and that white people amused themselves by throwng small stones at negro bathers appeared the most plausible cause. Soon after -ttre'-fighting started a ne-* arro fled pursued by a numbe. of ivhite men. He took shelter behind !.*. i building and began shooting at a 1 policeman who had joined the pursuit and who returned the fire. The negro finally surrendered. ' During the fight one negro was probably fatally wounded. Twenty-ninth Street was soon packed with white people and negroes, the latter predominating. More fighting occurred and a few shots were fired as some of the negroes fled and patrol wagops loaded with blue coats raced to the scene. A. fire broke out in a small building and the apparatus was blocked by the throngs. Negroes are said to have tried to drag the firemen from their seats. ' *> With the police stations emptied of reserves and scores of others rushed from North and West Side stations. Acting Chief of Police Al:ock ordered every available policeman on duty to prevent further outbreaks. The small army of policemen succeeded in bringing about a fair semblance of order. A Famly Reunion. Mrs. C. E. Williamson leaves toiay for her home in Pansy, Ga., to 1 :e present at a reunion ox iier xiuuly. Both brothers are home after ;he big war, one bringing a charming English wife and young son, while ;he baby brother arrived from over;eas a few days ago. The occasion vill be celebrated with an old fashoned Georgia barbecue. A Charming Visitor. Miss Royal Peak came over from Greenwood Sunday and spent the lay with Mrs. D. A. Rogers and Mrs. Sign. Miss Peak is a native of Cdgefield, she was in the heart of the ountry last year at Alcolu, and this ummer is rusticating, at Greenwood. It Just Shoots. > Jack Bradley, has been working at he mill since vacation, and making >ig money. He knocked off last Satirday and is spending his money like i man at Little Switzerland. Jack ays he is not going to touch a gun vhile away for "a gun just shoota f I touch it."