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rails EQUIP
I HOSPITAL ROOM
Order For Equipment Placed 1
Donors to Abbeville County Me
mo rial Hospital?Building Nearing
Completion?Names of
^" rAfitmknfinff
The Abbeville County Memori
Hospital is nearing completion. T1
rough work of remodeling the buil
ing to adapt it to hospital purpos
!; is practically complete. Only tl
plastering, the laying of floors, ai
ri >*t?. pother
finishing wflc is necessary
make the hospital ready for use.
A visit to the building some brig
v > afternoon will be well worth tl
trouble. Such a visit will repay tho
who are already interested?materij
ly and otherwise?and will give oi
sense of almost astonished gratific
tion. You will exclaim, "why I had i
idea that Abbeville was going to ha'
such a fine hospital. It is going to 1
W . . no nnmrnniont an/3 llTV-t"llfO ?S HI
CftO WVUWAMVUV UMU vw -1"wv ?
city hospital. And, you kno\y, I nev
liked this location before, but now
don't believe a better location cou
be found."You'll say just that ai
7 . more.
The period of building a hospit
in Abbeville can be matched by tl
experience of ' nearly every oth
town. First, there is enthusiasm ft]
a general concurrence in the fact
need. Then there is a dampening
ardor when realization is arrived
that hospitals take money and th
L -+Wa mAnAtr fVino nvnon^rl nrnmio
r? . ; ,WUb AAavAJVrjr vuuu WA^/viiuvu I'iviittu
no immediate material returns; ai
the hope is thaf; a hospital will nev
"be necessary for the individual.
| *
. ' Things rock along against incipie
and actual opposition and only a fe
give support, gaining recruits he
and there until finally the hospital
an assured thing.
That is the situation in Abbevil
now and it is a time when all tl
people should rally to its supportmake
it a success. And that is tl
' only way it will ever be a success
Many things are needed to coi
pl^te and equip a hospital. There
the operating room, the kitchen, tl
individual rooms, the various ware
-x the offices, the nurses' rooms, etc. A
the various departments have to 1
. equipped
The way that the Abbeville M
morial Hospital is being equipped
through individual contributions f
- memorial rooms. The operating roo
equipment will be purchased out
regular hospital funds, but most
the other necessary equipment w
be bought through individual ai
and if some person wants to equ
the operating room no objection w
v be made.
The following Abbeville peop
I will furnish equipment:
Mrs. Rebecca Rosenberg, priva
room, in honor of her parents, N
6?. and Mrs. G. A. Visanski.
Mrs. G. E. Calvert, child's room,
L'. honor of Natalie Calvert.
I Miss Maggie Brooks, priva
I room.
! Mrs. Paul Link, private room,
t honor of her father, J. W. Nichols.
I Mrs. Eugene B. Gary, priva
room, in honor of her son, Eugene
Gary, Jr., who died in France.
E. H. Longshore, private room,
honor of Lt. F. B. Longshore, di
in France.
S. H. Rosenberg, children's ward
There will be a colored ward and
is hoped that the colored people
Abbeville will name a committee
raise funds to equip this departmei
The Civic Club will furnish t
equipment for a maternity ward. T
Civic Club will also furnish oth
jjj&jfl equipment.
89 * The laboratory equipment, the !
Km Ray equipment ,the kitchen equi
jjj^H ^ne*it will be secured largely throus
individual contributions.
Most of the equipment has alrea<
jjggl been bought for the private roon
ggjU Mr. Albert Graham, represents
Max Wocher and Co., Cinicinnati, h
I I been ^n town for the past three da;
interviewing1 the donors and orde
[NEW YORK ATTORNEY,
ONCE PROGRESSIVE
SUCCEEDS LANSIN<
S ?
y Washington, Feb. 25.?Bainbridg
Colby, of New York, who was one o
, the leaders in the Progressive part
under Theodore Roosevelt, will su<
ceed Robert Lsnsing as secretary o
state. Announcement of his selectio:
by President Wilson was made toda
at the White House.
Wis nomination was sent to th
*e enate late this afternoon.
^ Mr. Colby's appointment came a
eg ven more a surprise than the res
ignation of Mr. Lansing at the re
^ quest of President Wilson.
. The first hint of Mr. Colby's ap
to .
pomtment came in a few minutes be
^ fore the formal announcement b
he Secretary Tumulty. The early re
sg! ports that he vfould get the plac
j were not generally credited.
ne Following the announcement of th
appointment Mr. Colby appeared a
the White House and was taken t
.10
see President Wilson.
^ With Shipping Board
| His latest connection with the Wi]
iy J
son administration, was when he wa
er
j a member of the United States ship
^ ping board. He resigned from tha
position a few months ago.
Mr. Colby is a lawyer. His home i
in New York. He was born in St
f Louis in 1869.
ne
During the Republican nations
?r
^convention of 1912 he was in charg
. of the contest to seat Roosevelt dele
of
^ gates. He was one of the founders o
at the progressive party and delegate t
, its first convention.
at
eg During the war he was a commis
^ sioner of the federal shipping boar*
and a member of the emergency flee
er
corporation. He was a member of th
. American Mission to the inter-allie(
nt
conference at Paris in 1917.
Mr. Colby was a life-long Republi
. ican until the famous Bull Moose bol
is
at the Chicago convention in 1912
je|He had been actively identified wit]
i the candidacy of Theodore Roosevel
_jfor the Republican nomination fo
J president that year and was ii
jcharge of contests to seat the Roose
n Ivelt delegates in the Chicago conven
. jtion.
is1
j When Colonel Roosevelt bolted th
lg j convention, Mr. Colby helped t
Lj|j found the Progressive party and wa
, | a delegate to its Chicago conventioi
jin 1912. He continued an activ
j leader in that party and in 1914 am
.gj again in 1916 he was a Progressiv
? : candidate for senator from New Yorl
or l
! state.
m!
of i
of BIJOU THEATRE BURNS
ill
d,
ip Anderson, Feb. 26.?The Bijoi
ill theatre was again burned at an earl;
hour this morning. This theatre ha
ile the misfortune to be burned the lat
ter part of the year, and it has onl;
te been open ten days. The entire hous
[r. being done over- and put into bette
shape than it has ever been,
in The organist,. Mr. Whilden, wa
sleeping in the building and escape
te with difficulty. He said that the fir
seemed to have originated in th
in basement, and when he awoke the en
tire building was filled with smoke
ite He turned in the alarm, and the fir
B. company responded at once, but th
time they got there the flames wer
in coming from the roof. This fire i
ed even more distastrous than the foi
mer one, as only the walls are lef
[. standing. The building is owned b
it William W. Sullivan, who carrie
of j full insurance.
to ,
>* i
I have been placed with him by th
(l6 I
j above named persons with the excel
^e|tion of S. H. Rosenberg, who ha
erjbeen confined to his bed with fk
J Mr. Rosenberg will select the equif
ment for the children's ward as soo
as he recovers.
p
There remains only one room i
=^|the hospital to be equipped and ther
| have been offers from several pei
dy;sons to equip this room. Howevei
'there is the laboratory, the X-Raj
the kitchen, the office, and the re
ng i
jception room equipment for whic
as I funds must be raised. There seems t
ra?'be plenty of opportunity for person
I . . . .. , , ,
[fraternity bill 'ste
CREATES STORM
IN STATE SENATE
?
Columbia, S. C, Feb. 26.?The sen- W
e ate adjourned at 12:30 o'clock this lowii
f morning and the wildest scenes of para
y confusion seen in that body in many or d
years. A very heated debate was pre- who!
f cipitated last night at 11:30 o'clock as r(
n by Senator Clifton, of Sumter, who ican
y proposed to fix an hour today to vote Burt
on the bill to allow Greek letter fra- Stat
e ternities to state institutions. Tbe "j
\te was participated in by Sena- the
s to. . Clifton, Bonham and Widemkn Unit
i- in f; vor of the measure, and Sena- fron
j. tors Friday and Laney in opposition the
to it. The debate became very bjtt&r food
i- and times it appeared as if there Janv
!_ might be personal encounters on the 15, :
y floor of the senate. While feeling 2. p<
s- was running at its highest and Sena- any
pltor Clifton was sneaking. Senator I sho^
Padgett, of Colleton, made a motion since
e to adjourn. The motion was put and of 1
t carried. The senate adjourned with- The
o out fixing an hour to vote on the bill, i aver
Following the debate considerable artic
excitement was created by a near- cons
[. personal encounter between Senators Sirlo
s Laney and Edward P. Hodges, a stu- plate
i- dent of the university, who has been lard,
t actively supporting the fraternity butt*
measure. It required several sena- chee:
s tors to hold them apart. Si:
The senate last night passed the tail ]
bill prohibiting free range of cattle for i
i'l after adopting an amendment which'the i
e permits the citizens of Horry, Berke- to Jt
ley, Colleton and Jasper counties to the :
f vote on the measure before it be- whic
o comes effective in those counties, creas
The fight for the bill was led by Sen- three
i_ ators Christepsen, of Beaufort? per i
j opposed the amendment allowing the'three
t four counties to vote on the bill. cent:
e cent,
a PERSHING "APES" BRITISH plate
FASHION. CHARGE IN HOUSE per c
, Jchuc
t Washington, Feb. 24.?The cut of rice,
General Pershing's coat and trousers orate
ti was debated today in the House. He tea,
t and other American army officers each,
r were charged by Representative Con- and
a nally, Democrat, of Texas, with hav- five.
_ ing "aped" European fashions in
_ their uniforms and in carrying canes. COX
"General Pershing's coat is split up
e the back and his trousers bagged like!
0 the English uniform," said Mr. Con- Cc
s nally. I Gov.
n "He kept his American head," Rep- jsurei
e resentative Wingo, Democrat, of Ar- jsupp
j kansas, interjected, "but I, too^Dem
fViof Vnc foil woe xror\r i Unit,
0 llVKtVVU t/UHU lliJ VVUV tUll HMJ T VI J
k Snglish." Hare
Deploring the adoption of foreign will
ashions, Representative Connally ard
moved to abolish the title of Under delej
Secretary of State and substitute the tion
former title of counsellor, in the exe- Ai
cutive appropriation bill, but the cuti\
11 motion was defated, 39 to 21. larat
^ During the discussion Representa- imori
^ tive Green, Republican, of Massachu- sued
setts, referred to former Secretary \ Cini<
^ Lansing's retirement from the Cabi-:that
e net. soug
r "What's? in a namp?" Mr. flrppnp t.wn
j asked. "A Secretary of State by anyjpolit
s I other name would have a row with'
d the Administration." BUS
e When the Republicans cheered^
e I Representative Connally brought a[
l"i reply salvo from the Democrats by
1 retorting that the Republicans ape
plauded internal difficulties of the gj
e Administration. brok
1 nitui
8 A SAPPHIRE WEIGHING dow]
" 5 POUNDS, FOUND IN INDIA Flan
:t Iflooi
Vi OC A 1
" | xj \j 11 lucxy f iiiuia, ?*\j. oc* p- j ^RCl
sjphire eight inches long and weighing |fann
! more than five pounds, is reported Uhat
.Jto have been found at Mogok by a'^ajia
i Burmez. Its value it estimated at be- 'was
} |tween 35,000 pounds and 50,000 i
'pounds.
s:F j 140,
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
I i
n The Rev. E. B. Kennedy, Due J ^
West, will preach at the Presbyterian
n i ?u a o 1? ?-?:? -a 11 , uie*
tllUIt.I II^Al OUIlUdV IIIUI 11IIIK at 11
e I , i i tion
! o clock. I ,
> I I day
r,| LEBANON CHURCH I Quit
r> I j The
i-' The rain having prevented the i pub
h meeting at Lebanon church last Sab- ty-e
o bath, there will be preaching next secr
s Sabbath,
ADY INCREASES
-SHOWN IN PRICE OF
FOOD AND CLOTHING
ashington, Feb. 26.?The foltig
statement, presenting comtive
statistics showing the rise
ecline in prices of retail and
1 . ^ 1 1 _ J_1 1
;esiue iooa ana oiner cumrnuuiues
jported by fifty leading Amercities,
has been issued by the
>au of Labor Statistics, United
es Department of Labor.
According to reports received by
Bureau of Labor Staistics of the
ed States Department of Labor
1 the retail dealers in fifty cities
average family expenditure for
was two percent higher on
tary 15, 1920, than on December
L919. The cost in December was
;r cent higher than it had been in
previous month. These figures
r an increase o^ nine per cent
? January, 1919, and an increase
04 per cent since January, 1919.
comparisons are based on the
age retail prices of the following
les, weighed according to the
umption of the average family:
an steak, round steak , lb. roast,
s beef, pork chops, bacon, ham,
hens, flour, corn, meal, eggs,
jr, milk, bread, potatoes, sugar,
3e, rice, coffee, and tea.
nee January, 1919, monthly reprices
of food have been secured
forty-four food articles. During
nonth from December 15, 1919,
innary 16, 1920, twenty-nine of
forty-four articles of food for
h prices were secured in 1919 injed
as follows: Cabbage, thirty>
per centpotatoes, twenty-six
cent,' granulated sugar, twenty?
per cent; onions, eleven per
; lamb and rolled oats, eight per
each; hens, seven per cent;
i beef, six per cent; flour, five
;ent; sirloin steak, rib roast,
k roast, bread and cream and
two per cent, each; ham, evep;d
milk, macaroni, baked beans,
coffee and bananas, one per cent
. Bacon, nut maragrine, cheese
crisco each increased less than
tenths of one per cent.
WILL GET OHIO;
UiDIMVP iWl PAMTrOT
nnxvuinu 111 i I
>lumbus, Ohio, Feb. 26.?While
James M. Cox practically is asi
of Ohio's solid delegation in
ort of his candidacy for the
ocratic nomination for president,
ed States Senator Warren G.
ling, Ohio's other favorite son,
have to contest with Gen. Leon.Wood
for the Buckeye state's
jates at the Republican convenat
Chicago.
inouncement tonight at the exe'e
office that Governor Cox's dec;ion
of candidacy will be filed to ow
and a formal statement isby
William Cooper Procter of
:innati, General Wood's manager
a full set of delegates will be
ht by General Wood were the
outstanding features in today's
ical developments in Ohio.
INESS DISTRICT OF
BIRMINGHAM SCENE OF
BAD FIRE THURSDAY
rmingham, Ala., Feb. 26.?Fire
e out in the Rhodes-Carroll Furre
company, in the heart of
muwii x>iruiiiigiiam, <11 y. m.
ies which originated on the third
quickly spread to the fourth
fifth floors. A strong wind
ed the fire. It was estimated
$75,000 damage has been end
fifteen minutes after the fire
discovered.
000 TEACHERS
RESIGNED LAST YEAR
leveland, Ohio, Feb. 25.?Figi
presented at the national educaassociation
convention here toshowed
that 140,000 teachers
the schools during the last year,
compilation was made by 1,792
lie school superintendents in foright
states. Hugh S. Magill, field
THIRD RESERVATION
ADOPTED BY SENATE
BY WIDE MARGIN
Washington, Feb. 26.?Reservation
number three, controlling acceptance
of mandates by the United States
under the peace treaty was adopted
today by the senate, in the form
agreed to last session.
The vote was 68 to 4, Senators
Jones, of New Mexico; Kendrick, of
Wyoming; Walsh, of Montana ,and
Williams of Mississippi, all Democrats,
voting against the reservation.
Another broadside of denunciation
waa luuacu vy iiicv;uiii;iiiauic uppunents
of the pace treaty today when
the senate took up the subject under
I an agreement to keep it constantly
under consideration until disposed of.
Senators France, Republican,
Maryland, and Reed, Democrat, Missouri,
led off for the irreconcilables,
the former characterizing the treaty
as an instrument of "hate and destruction"
and the latter calling it
a "serpent of treason."
The debate began after the senate
had voted with only a few scattering
"noes" to pass over the article
ten until action had been taken on all
the other proposed reservations. Thei
motion was made by Senator Lodge,
the Republican leader, and although
Senator Knox, Republican, Pennsylvania,
was one of the irreconcilable
: group, said he could not see the wisIdom
of delaying a decision, no rollcall
was demanded.
Senator France, presenting formally
the resolution he offered several j
I days ago for a declaration of peace!
|declared the reservations discussion j
! Vto/4 fn ^CAT?V? ielmr" I
iiMu u^^v^iiuaiig bu ovyiwoiii. jr ouu
"mere quibbling over language." ,
Neither the Republican or Demo- .
cratic reservation proposed, he said,
would materially modify the League!
of Nations.
]
SIR OLIVER SNUBS OUIJA j
AS SPIRIT INTERMEDIARY ,
Chicago, Feb. 24.?"I am not a 1
spiritualist; I am an investigator,"
said Sir Oliver Lodge, the English .
scientist, today.
"It took more than twenty-years!<
of thought to make me give credit to j
'spirit communications," he continued,]
"reluctant, stubborn years of weigh-J,
ling evidence and probabilities. And)
'even today I do not attend seances;]
I do not believe in the ouija boards
and other commonly accepted means
jof alleged communications. Ouija is
merely tapping one's strata of dreams
and no more importance should be
attached to messages on the board
than one should give to dreams,
which is nothing at all."
Sir Oliver lectured at Orchestra
Hall and dealt as much with the
physical phenomenon of the world as
he did with the psychic.
"America apparently does not have
any great or sound body of thinkers
upon problems of the occult," he said
"but for that matter England has not
i either. England is not nearly soj
swept by spiritualism as you are
told. It is only .the thoughtful person
(on either side whose interest in
spiritual communications is of any
value, and to these it will appear as a
foe to religion, but the reverse. My
(studies of it have brought me back to
ja religious belief after a lifetime of
j negation."
;geddis selected as
ambassador to u. s.
'
! London, Feb. 26.?It was definitely
stated in the lobby of the house of
icommons tonight that Sir Auckland
,Geddis, minister of national service
:and reconstruction, has been selected
as British ambassador to Washington.
: Official announcement of his appointment,
it was said, was only waiting
I notification from Washington that
iSir Auckland is person agrata.
BAII.F.Y WII.T. RF.OPF.N
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I
Greenwood, Feb. 25.?Announcement
has been made that Bailey Military
institute will reopen on March
(8. The young men of the institute
(were allowed to go home on account
WILSON'S PREVIOUS I
DECISION HOLDS ;
London Sends Another ReplyPresident
Considers Treaty Withdrawal?Full
Discussion of Adriatic
Question?Allies Note
On Way.
Washington, Feb. 26.?President
Wilson, in his reply to the British and
French premiers on the Adriatic quesion
adheres to his previous decision
that unless the terms of settlement
are returned to the provisions of the
agreement of December 9, he "must
take under serious consideratioh"
the withdrawal of the treaty of Versailles
and French alliance from the
enate.
The response of the premiers, was
dispatched from London today, but
had not been received tonight in
Washington.
With the exception of this note ,
the exchanges on the subject, including
the December 9 agreement, and
the subsequent agreement communicated
to Jugo-Slavia last month by
the British and French premiers,
were made public today by the state
department.
Holding that the provisions of the
agreement sent as an ultimatum to
Jugo-Slavia would- merely continue
the "old order of things which
brought so many evils on the world".
President Wilson in his first communication
to the entente premiers
declared that if such were made efeffective
the time had not come
"when this government can entertain
a concert of powers the very
existence of which must depend upon
a new spirit and a new order." The
note then added:
"The president desires to say that
ne must take under serious consideration
the withdrawal of the treaty
with Germany and the agreement between
the United States and France
(the Franco-American treaty) which
are now before the senate.
In his last note the president reiterated
in an emphatic manner his
tand from which he asserted there
"could be no departure as the course
decided upon by the premiers would
be short-sighted and not in accordance
with the terrible sacrifices of
the entire world which can be justified
and ennobled only by leading
finally to settlements in keeping with
the prinicples for which the war was
fought."
E. T. MEREDITH ATTACKS
CONGRESS AS "PENNY WISE" ;
Chicago, Feb. 25.?"Penny wise"
policies seriously handicap the Department
of Agriculture in its work
oi neipmg tne larmer, E. T. Meredith,
Secretary of Agriculture, told the Association
of Commerce here today.
"We want to tell the farmers how
to kill the boll weevil," he'said, "and
then we can't afford to print the necessary
bulletin. Four-fifths of the
bulletins printed go to the Congre>'?men,
and when farmers ask us for
them we haven't got them.
"Not all is graft and politics down
in Washington," he said, and told
about men who could command dou
ble their present salaries in commercial
life who stay with the department
because of loyalty.
"They have cut down our appropriations
to $31,000,000 a year," he declared,
"and after the Bureau of
Weather and Forestry and others
have their portions there is only $10,-.
000,000 left with which to conduct
the business of protecting agriculture.
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