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- 1 -' ' . ' ' v'' ' Wm - I ' ' ' wv'Abbeville Press and Banner 1 . . ;#ll - E tabl'shed 1844. $2.00 the Year. Abbeville, S. C., Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1919. Single Copies, Five Cents. 75th Year, 1 THIRTIETH DIVISION HON OPENS Greearille Greets World War Heroes 1 WWo Broke The Hindenburg Line. | Welcome By Governor Cooper. ' Nerth Carolina Governor to Respond. GfeenVille, Sept. 28.?With the arrival ?f hundreds of members from all parts of Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina to attend the first reunion of the "Old Hickory" (Thirtieth) division association, which opens here tomorrow morning, indications based on interviews with men prominent in the organization pointed to a spirited contest on the floor of the convention for the next reunion. Knoxville and Asheville are vigorously claiming the honor, but if there is a possibility of retaining the convention in the Palmetto State another year, Columbia and Charleston men say they are prepared to wage a determined fight. Surface indications are that it will be the sense of association to alternate between the three states in the selection of reunion cities. Reports reached headquarters today that a large delegation will come in automobiles Tuesday morning from Asheville to pre 'sect the claims of that city. Every incoming train unloaded many visitors today and Secretary Bowen of the chamber of commerce tonight stated that 2,500 members had registered, while the largest crowd is expected to arrive tomorrow. The, Forty-eighth infantry band iron Camp Jackson arrived today and with inspiring music welcomed Maj. Gen. E. M. Lewis, commander of the Thirtieth, who came / from Camp Gordon this evening. Sixty officers and enlisted men who were wonnded and are now convalescing at Ft MePherson hospital arrived from Atlanta tonight in a special car. Grenville, teeming with soldiers in uniform, presents much the same appearance tonight as when Camp Sevier was fully populated with 30,000 Thirtieth division men. PALMER AGAINST "BIG 5" IN THEIR REFUSAL TO BUY Washington, Sep?. 27.?Refusal of! the "big five" packers to buy from J Kansas live stock men for fear of prosecution for hoarding would be | unjustified, Attorney General Palmer Friday wrote former Governor Stubbs of Kansas, who headed a delegation of Kansas cattle raisers who protested the alleged action of the nnekeTS. "Ton stated," the letter said, that one of the reasons alleged by the packers for refusal to buy was the fear on their part of prosecution by . the federal government for hoarding if they placed in storage the usual seasonal requirements of meats. Nothing that the department of justice has so far done, and no views which have been announced here of* fer any justice for such excuse on the part of the packers." v? A New Residence. Messrs. John and Joe Evans are building a commodious residence on Church Street, which they hope soon to have finished. There are to be ten rooms in the house and all the modern conveniences which go to make life pleasant will be installed in the house. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv V COTTON MARKET. V \ V V September 29. V V Spot Cotton 33.00 V v V New York Cotton Market V v V V January 32.17 V V March 32.27 V V May 33.35 V V October 31.75 V V December 32.09 V * , * VtVVVVVVVVVVVVNAj GOMPERS DEFINES IV ISSUE IN STRIKE Washington, Sept. 26.?The issue in the nationwide steel strike was defined today by Samuel Gompers, pres- q ident of the American Federation of a Labor, as recognition of the right of ? employees "to be heard, fo organize e and to have some voice in detennin- F ing conditions under which they la- ? bor." n Appearing as labors second wit- v ness in the senate iaoor committee's investigation of the steel strike. Pres- a ident Gompers drew from his c.cperi- ii ence as chairman of the first com- h mittee to organize the steel industry e and traced "the history of organized ( labor's efforts to unionize the steel o workers. When he finished the com- b mittee adjourned until next Wednes- s day at which time Judge Gary, chair- t man of the United States Steel cor- \ poration, has promised to appear. s Witness Makes Charge. v President Gompers, in the course 8 of his remarks, condemned unsparing- a ly civic authorities in the western Pennsylvania steel centers and re- ^ peated many of the charges made befor the committee yesterday by John Fitzpatrick, chairman of the strikers' committee. "Whatever helps the corporations * against the workers, that the authorities of Pennsylvania will be found doing," Gompers said at one point. Full responsibility for the strike he laid at the door of Judge Gary, who could have stopped it, he said, by granting a conference to the strike committee. Counter charges against the steel workers, involving the revolutionary radicalism of William Z. Foster, strike committee secretary in particu- r lar, was met by Gompers with the * assertion that Foster no longer was a syndicalist or a believer in violence. BAPTIST ASSOCIATION TO MEET AT HOREB J / ?? r The Rev. Louis J. Bristow and|j Messrs. W. A. Rowell, C. E. William-L son, J. H. Cheatham, J. S. Stark, J. j F. Edmonds, E. C., Horton, W. D. i Barksdale, W. P. Wham, R. M. Burts and Major R. B. Cheatham will represent the Abbeville Baptist Church in the Baptist Association whose annual session will be held at Horeb, near Bradley, Thursday and Friday of this week. This association is * composed of the Baptist churches in j Abbeville, McCormick and Green- ^ wood counties, having a total membership of about 4.000. The chief feature of the associa- 1 tion this year will be the considera- 1 tion ol the Baptist 75 Million Cam- . paign, which is quite similar to the 1 Methodist Centenary campaign which was carried to a happy conclusion by that denomination in the spring. The ^ churches of Abbeville Association , have been asked for $242,625 in the Baptist drive, and the matter wili be discussed at the Association by Dr. W. J. McGlothlin, organizer for South Carolina. Dr. McGlothlin will speak in the Baptist church here on Sunday morning, and the public is invited to hear him. A Flourishing School. The Sunday school at the mill is one of the most flourishing in town and just now an effort is being made to bring the attendance up to one hundred. Two weeks ago the attendance was seventy-nine and last Sunday eighty-five were present. The exercises are held in the school building and a good work is being done. Miss Helen Edwards has always taken an interest in the school and has been most helpful with the music. Miss . Ruth McLane, Miss Tribble and Miss Boyd are also earnest workers and the school is growing in interest and usefulness. Attend Reunion. j 1 Prof. J. D. Fulp, W. D. Wilkinson, \ 'Gottlob A. Neuffer and Leslie Mc- s Millan left Monday for Greenville to ( attend the reunion of the Thirtieth J Division. 8 IRS. G. N. NICKLES 1 PASSES AWAY AT BALTIMORE HOSPITAL Mrs. Jfcnie McKee Nickles, wife of !apt. G. N. Nickles of Due West, { nd mother of Hon. J. M. Nickles of * ibbeville, died at 8 o'clock in the c vening last Friday, at the Union 'rotestant Hospital in the City of laltimore, whither she had gone for ledical treatment. Mrs. Nickles ras in her 70th year. As Miss Janie McKee she was born nd reared in Long Cane township a this County. Her father was the ate A. J. McKee, of that section. In arly life she was happily married to }apt. G. N. Nickles. For a number f years they resided on the faim etween Abbeville and Due West, L ut eeking educational advantage* ( for heir children, they moved (tu Due Vest about 1890, where they have ince made their home. Thers they pere privileged to see their children tow to manhood and womanhood, ,nd enter life's responsibilities. The following children survive rlrs. Nickles: Mrs. R. L. Parker, * i? "?r? t cm !Lii n . I seiton; Mrs. resile oiriDiing, oeneca; . M. Nickles, Abbeville; W. J. Nick- 3 es, Spartanburg; G. Harold Nickles, 1 lome, Ga.; R. E. Nickles and Lieut. 1 ames P. Nickles, Washington, D. C.; \ diss Elizabeth Nickles, Flora Mc- 1 )onald College, N. C.; Miss Rosa ' tickles, Superintendent of Anderson bounty Hospital; .and Miss Florence ' tickles, Missionary in Nanking, 3hina. The oldest child, Mr. L. H. 1 tickles, formerly of Abbeville, pre- , eded his mother to the grave, *his 1 leath being the first break in the arge family. Mrs.,.Nickles was a consecrated 1 nember of the old Greenville Presbyerian Church of this County. She lecame a member of this church in ler early childhood and through her ong life kept the faith .of her people, | ind in Its precepts she reared her ! hildren. Her pastor, Rev, J. M. , )allas, inducted the funeral services it the residence at Due West on ' donday afternoon, 29th inst., after vhich her body was laid to rest in jong Cane Cemetery. *AVY WILL ATTEMPT SEAPLANE FLIGHT TO PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Washington, Sept. 26.?Tentative >lans now under consideration at the lavy department call for a seaplane light from San Diego, Cal., to the Philippine Islands some time this vinter or in the early spring. Steps vill be made at Hawaii, Wake Island ind Guam, under present plans. The total distance to be covered n the flight will be more than 7,000 niles or twice the distance covered jy the NC-4 in flying across the Atantic. The longest leg, from San \ Diego to Hawaii, will be more than! 2,000 miles. . Elberton Defeats Abbeville. ' The Elberton High School fW.b'jil -earn defeated the Abbeville eleven Friday afternoon on the local pounds by the score of 19 to 0. It vas a good game despite the score, ;o be expected from the fact that the jfeorgia boys outweighed the Abbeville players by 30 or more pounds ;o the man. It really looked like a battle be- I rween Lilliputians and Brobdingnanans, especially when one saw little 3ugh Bradley, playing end toe Abjeville and weighing scarcely 80 )ounds, tackling a 150 pounJ Elber;on player?and the little fellow :ould tackle, too, possessing both lerve and ability. I The players who starred for Ab>evilte were Bradley, Harris, Tate, ind Smith. '1 Mr. Marion Link Sick. News comes to us of the serious llness of Mr. Marion Link, at his : tome in the county. Mr. Link is ill ' vith typhoid fever and in addition is ) tated to have contracted pneumonia. )n account of his advanced years i lis relatives and friends are anxious 1 ibout him. i VILLIAM WILSON J KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT SUNDAY William Wilson, 18 years old, son J >f W. W. Wilson, Level Land, was ? tilled Sunday morning about one 1 > clock, l& miles irom Anderson onjj ;he road from Anderson to Level i1 L?and, * when the Ford car in which * ie and Seth Carwile were riding ran:s >ff a bridge and turned over on top! )f the two men with a barbed wire j ^ 'ence underneath Young Wilson's |J ieck/ was caught between a strand of j' ;he wire and the wind shield of the 1 :ar and he was strangled. Carwile was driving the car and : when it turned over he was caught 1 jetween the steering gear and strands |1 jf the wire. He was stunned by the fall and when he recovered consciousness it took him several moments to ' iisengage himself, being forced to 1 remove part of his clothing, which had become enmeshed in the wire. He obtained help from a Mr. Drake, : who lived nearby and the machine < was lifted from Young Wilson. Carwile in speaking of the accident i jaid that the two were returning from a show in Anderson and traveling at a good speed, when he noticed the bridge. He turned off his switch, depriving himself of lights, and the inside wheels barely caught the 1 bridge, flipping the car over and throwing the two with the car on top i '< af them into the fence. The funeral was held Sunday af- L ternoon at 4 o'clock at Little River p Church, the Rpv. Mr. Foster conduct- < ing the services. < William Wilson was a brother of i Marcus Wilson, of the Abbeville Mo tor Car Co., recently organized here. Y. M. C. A. CAMPAIGN. Columbia, Sept. 26.?There are at [east twelve textile communities in South Carolina that are ready for Y. M. C. A. organization, according to W. V. Martin, industrial secretary for North and South Carolina. There is need in each of these communities for the Y. M. C. A., he declares, and the organization would be able to do wonderful work in each. The Y. M. C. A. now has organization^ in several mill communities of the state and fills a very vital need in each. The people of the mill communities annreciate the work that it has done and the manufacturers ar6 also appreciative of it and encourage it in its efforts. A portion of the maney that it is to be raised in the $50,000 campaign Oct. 10-20 will go towards the extension of the industrial work of the organization in this state. Mr. Martin declares that the work to be done in this branch of the Y. M. C. A. alone will more than repay all who contribute to the campaign. He has an ambitious program which he cannot put in effect unless the campaign for funds next month is a success. The industrial department of the Y. M. C. A. is but one feature of its state. The organization has many other departments all working to the same ena?tne conservation 01 tne young manhood of the state. The work which the organization has planned to do during the next year will have to be very seriously curtailed if the campaign for funds is not a success. DR. J. B. WILSON NOT NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE Dr. J. B. Wilson, who was taken to the Anderson Hospital last week for an operation for intestinal ad nesions was reported Monaay to De in a very serious condition, the physicians in charge holding out no hope for his recovery. His brother, W. D. Wilson, hurried to his bedside Mon- i day morning on receipt of a tele- 1 phone message stating that Dr. Wilson was not expected to live through the day. Dr. Wilson recently moved his 1 family here from Iva, buying the ] Herbert L. Allen property on Chest- : nut street. He was operated upon about two:: months ago for appendicitis and it is1 thought that his present trouble is'1 an outgrowth of that operation. IOHNSON DENIES TRIP TO COAST IS POLITICAL Washington, Sept. 26.?Senator Fohnson, Republican, California, speaking in\the senate today, sharply resented a statement by Senator Wiliams, Democrat, Mississippi, that he V9Q rofnrririnp fn Ia /?n?. 1 ;inue his attack on the president and to mend his political fences. "I understand the senator from Mississippi is unable to comprehend adequately my motives," Senator Johnson declared. "But I am going bo California and all the other states [ can reach, not to mend political fences, but because of the great optimism I have in the common people of this land and the certainty thut when they hear the story of the League of Nations they will respond as Americans and demand that it safeguard their interests. "I returned from Minneapolis," Mr. Johnson said, "to endeavor to present what is in my mind on this amendment in the hope that I would be able to get a vote on it. I've found after consultation, not on one side but on both, that it is impossible that it is relegated to the end of the debate. Now I am going to start where I left off at Minneapolis." There was a faint start of handclapping when Senator Johnson concluded. Senator Williams immediRf.plv rpnlioil iJonwinff +l?of flmnt' WV**J4U5 wunv vrxcab Britain had six votes in the league He declared she had but one and bhat the British colonies had one each and they were 'self-governing commonwealth." . Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, asked if India was so governed. When Senator Williams started to reply spectators in the galleries broke into laughter and drew a sharp rebuke from Vice-President Marshall. He ordered all persons ejected who participated in the demonstration and declared emphatically that the senate rule must be enforced or abrogated. Senator Williams replied that, as usual, the galleries apparently were "packed" and said if applause of the debate continued it would not be long before the galleries "will be putting motions as they did fn the French revolution." ELBERT CITIZENS START PROCEEDING TO COMPEL SIGNING OF ROAD BONDS Elberton, Ga., Sept. 26.?Elbert county's road bond tangle took a new turn when L. W. Hendricks, C.* H. Allen, A. C. Adams, J. S. Wansley, S. L. Smith, W. F. Mewbourn, ;H. U. Wallace, T. W. Durham, C. P. Hairston, J. Y. Swift and J. J. Balcbin, as citizens of the county, filed mandamus proceedings - in the superior court and procured an order from Waulter L. Hodges directing CommisWaulter L. Hodges directing ?om nssioner of Roads and Revenues E. L. Aaams co snow cause uctooer t> wny lie should not be required to sign the $200,000 road bonds, levy a lax to pay interest and sinking fund on to pay interest and sinking fund on the bonds, and pay necessary expenses in advertising the bonds for sate. E. L. Adams was che soli- commissioner of roads and revenues when the bond election was held June 12, 1919, and the county by a vote of 1 R93 tn 90 i>9rrisd tVio alanfinn flniin. missioner Adams requested Elbert'sj representaives in the legislature loj pass an act creating a bond commi.?-j sion for the county to sell the bond and handle the moneys derived therefrom. Such a bill was introduced by Representative Swift and was carried. Mr. Swift then went to the governor and had four men named on this special bond commission. Commissioner Adams claimed that he was not treated right in the matter, as he was left off of the bond commission entirely and he took the 4-V? o 4- oir/?n 4-Vm r^nfioo \infli ^UOIUl/11 bliab OlilVV UliW UUUI^W reference to the bonds wer* placed in the hands of th'.s special commission, it was not incumbent upon him to levy a tax for the payment of the interest, and he stated he would I dot 3i?n the bonds. I NEGRO IS LYNCHED BY OM MOB : | Then Attempt I* Made To Lynch mayor? l bousands Lake fart in Hanging of Negro, Charged With Criminal Assault Court House is Burned. / Omaha, Neb., Sept. 28.?At a late hour tonight it was discovered that' an abortive attempt had been made to lynch Mayor Ed P. Smith, when he appeared to appeal to the mob to desist from lynching the negro William Brown, accused of criminal assault. Although reports are conflicting, it is known that a rope was thrown around his neck. A policeman cut it off before the mob could I accomplish its purpose. The mayor was carried out unconscious by a squad of police officers and friends and he was hurrie^ to the office of the surgeon nearby. He was removed to hospital. At midnight he was still unconscious. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 28.?A lynch- U ing, which developed many character istics of a race riot, held this city terrorized for nine hoars today. .Mayor Edward P. Smith was himself saved from lynching by a policeman, / : who is was reported cnt a rope from about the mayor's neck while his comrades clubbed off the mob. At .-.' B midnight it was said that the mayor was unconscious in a hospital. The riot centered about the new Douglas county court house, valued ? at a million and a half dollars, which was set fire in the efforts to reach William Brown, a negro, charged /, with attacking a young white girl a . vj few days ago. Jj? With the flames mounting steadily from floor to floor, Sheriff Bfi&e Clark and his deputies fought a grim battle of hours to save Brown from those : who clamored for his life, but at 11 o'clock, with the cries of the 100 or more prisoners on the top floor?the jail floor?ringing in his ears, he was compelled to surrender the prisoner, who was hustled to an electric light ' 'A 1 l 1 % puie ana n&ngea. ? ' : % DR. McGLOTHLIN WILL PREACH HERE SUNDAY One of the events in the religious life of the county will be the visit to Abbeville of Dr. W. J. McGlothlin next Surday. Doctor McGli^nn is the organizer for South Carolina in the 75 Million Campaign of Southern Baptists. This will be the first visit of this distinguished divine to 007 county, and he will probably be heard by a large number of persons. Invitations have been sent io all the Baptist churches in the county to" have representatives present, and it is probable a large number of riaitors will come. Nearly 26,000 Baptist churches of the South are engaged in this campaign, representing more than three million members. The outstanding features of the gigantic effort are to enlist all the members of the church- ? es, to add a million and a half members, to double the Sunday school attendance, aiyl to raise 75 million dollars for the work fostered by Baptists at home and abroad. Doctor * uivuiviriuiu win speajc upon trie sqIh ject of this campaign. s Return From Washington. The Rev. and Mrs. H. W. Pratt letumed Saturday night from Washington, D. C., after a vacation of 30 days spent in Virginia and the District of Columbia. The trip both ways was made by machine, the two traveling more than 2,000 miles ? ince their departure in August. The members of the Presbyterian Church had expected Mr. and Mrs. Pratt home Friday and a reception was planned and was awaitinc T?nofn? and his wife, who were delayed because of storms in Virginia, thus missing the delightful event at the manse.' ii