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? f ABBEVIL | A NEW JO\ | THE BIG AND DANC YEAR PLEI 1EXCELLEN1 TERS KITT vH.V.' I 24 Joyous T { pRICES7 M'ADOO ADVISES BIG REDUCTION IN 1920 TAXES Washington, March 8.?An im mediate billion dollars reduction ir federal taxes was suggested in ? statement issued here by William G McAdoo, lormer secretary of th( treasury. The present tax burden is too great, he said, and is "having ar injurious effect on business." Mr. McAdoo proposed that collection of a tax to establish a sinking fund for retirment of the war debt which was recommended by formei Secretary Glass to begin with the fiscal year, 1920, be postponed foi two years, and that the deferred paymcr.ts of European interest be funded until Europe is in position to pay its interest charges. "The financial policies of the na lion as eniDoaiea m iuture congressional legislation," said Mr. McAdoo, "shouul realize the utmost economy in expenditure and might well fund in long term bonds $1,000,000,000 per annum for two years of the amount now raised by taxation. "Under laws a tax to establish a 1 per cent sinking fund to retire bonds now outstanding is to be collected beginning with the fiscal year 1920 This might well be postponed for a\ twn vf>nrc nnH thins vnrliirp thf tax burden by $250,000,000 annual lv. There, too, is the debt whicl now amounts to about ten billior dv...air. If u.e economic restoratior of Europe had proceeded far enougl so that Europe could now pay inter or, this debt (as she will be abU to do within a few years), we shoulc have an income of $500,000,001 from this source. But that is no now avilable. Why not fund that a mount against the day when ii wn come back to us? L?y postpone io iv! tVio nctnhliisVmipnt. nf : j!nkir.? fund and funding the de ft red payments of European inter v. r, viv r-ho"! i cover S75*Vnon.Pnfl o thi? bil-ion dollars by which our taxa tio>: r>.v:gh; be reduced. By uiseo..m {)*#: r,f f iKfivH* Trt LE OPEIU r under the sun;gest novelty ing show of the N 111 UUt <Jf U1KL3 ? CAST-INCLUDING YFAYE JACKTHO Mi^gSome of Lester FUN jfj An Avalanc Score of Pret (\ M A Big Girl, F LHthe Laides. unes 100 ?|0 Musical 5c $1.00 $1.50 retirment under provisions of e> ing law the treasury would be ? lieved of a large burden now refl ed in the floating debt and wl . otherwise will have to be made up j taxation. It would seem that rec t tion of our tax bill for the next , years in this manner could be acc< ; plished and that it wouid involve ; issuance of additional bonds to i extent of probably not more t one and a half billion dollars. GIRL OPIUM FIEND KILLS HER FATH Berlin?Baron von Koppen's de is said to have been caused by a ! podermic injection of morphine g en by his 15-year-old daughter at suggestion of her mother, a fori American. The baroness vanis] and the girl, a morphine addict 1 r been placed in a sanitarium. JAPS REPORTED TO BE ABOUT TO RECOGMZE THE S0Y1 -j Honolulu, T. H., March 9.?The J r anese foreign office initmates an e I ly rsumption of commercial relati with the soviet government of Rus I preliminary to a formal recognitor > the soviet as a defacto government, cording to a Tokio cable to the Jap ese newspaper Nippi Jiji here. II Out of a consignment of til i thousand shaving brushes wh reached England recently from . East, eight out of eleven were foi to be infected with one of the ir ? horrible of known diseases?narr - j UiiitllOA. CASES OF SLEEPING J SICKNESS IN NEW TO i Xew York, Mar. 9.?A total of " i cases of sleeping sickness has t 5 i reported in New York since Janu ill. Health Commissioner Copeland , i nounced today. I'orty oi llie ; were fatal. The disease is appar t Jv an aftermath of the influenza . domic. the commissioner said. ! TRIES TO SELL CASH AT DISCOUNT?FA London.?Fred Barnes. an ae lost a wager of ? 50 when lie st " in Trafalgar Square f pound notes for sale at two pe on oil. f" minutes 1> r? sucror in disposing of hut one nou*. lie lift ili.tr ho could a: ,":e . hi {iigniiiiiiiiiiiiiniifiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiin k, HOUSE ? A SPARKLING AND G. NORMAN HANLEY MAS HARRY OLYNN s Many Creation Gowns 1 he of Singers, Dance ty Girls. nn Hit and Fashion SI Treat A 20th Centurj Or Song Encc PLUS $2.00 TAX illM :ist*j Eight Persons Die erct!j In An Epileptic lich ' Hospital Fir ? by | luc-j Callipolis, Ohio, March 9.?Eig! two! persons are dead and two are e :>ected to die as the result of a fi which early today destroyed one cc the tage and the dancing pavilion the the Ohio hospital for epileptics. T1 u?n dead and injured were patients that Institution, The cottage operated as a hospit for male patients caught from tl dancing pavilion which first caug] ER fire. Twenty-five patients were the hospital at the time. The des ath an were suffocated. The injuri hy- were partly suffocated and burne :iv- I ne? j DOG-BITE INSPIRES tied ! MURDEROUS WARFAR has i Cairo.?By sending 21 persons i ! prison for 10 years, British author ties hope that they have suppresse the feud which has raged for 15 ET years between the villages of Hani dat and Ashraf. In the last exchang |of hostilities, some 40 were slain an ap-jl20 houses burned. The feud bega sar-; 150 years ago, when a dog from Han ons idat bit a native of Ashraf. sia. 1 of Instead. ac- He had gone with his girl to tl an- minister's house to be married. Afti [the ceremony he took the minister a | ide and said: "I am awfully sorry th; :cc. T have no money to pay you a fee, si ich j Put I'll do even better by you if you tlie'take me clown cellar. I'll show how i ind flx >'our &as meter so it won't regi lost tcricly ~ . Just in Case It was a very small country hot( IRK" 01 w00(* llnd pretty flimsy. But i was all the town afforded, nid Tom (kins had to stop there. When lie w; 175 ;:ho\vn his room, he said to the ca >een ort-d boy who was "page": lary "I am glad they've got a rope he an- in case of fire. But why a Bible?" ?oCJ | 'That suh," saiil the boy. "i^ i:~. ea ent-' de fire as too far gone for you to ma! epi-|yo' oscape, sail." Absolute Obedience IT J? | When ttlsie came homo from a is( r.Mnr's house nuiJU-hinK n ch.^-olal tor. jli. i' mother said reprovingly: ooil j 'Xow ISisio. how many times have ry- told you not to ask Mrs. Grey for eh inco I folates?" m! i "i did exactly what you told !iif? i.aii | mother. I didn't ask her." :< * r.U:-' '! :>r.O-V vh ro ?V ' . ** . r.;." TTRACTION KTRAORDINARY AY MUSICAL PLAY W rii'J 9m a nra^BHni ELLA WARNER DAV AND ETC. :o Be Seen In The Music :rs and Comedians ' iow Gorgeous Gowns r Show. What Ever "Y >re Every Minute SEATS ON SA IBilllillllllllllfflllllilllHIIidViigilHlllli NOTICE OF DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELECTIC 'ej For a Mayor, a Commissioner .J 'ublic Works and four Aldermen ht! x. i he City of Abbeville, South Carolii re! Notice is hereby given that ^ I Democratic Primary Election will ie [held on Tuesday the 23rd. day at March, 1920, for the purpose |choosing a Mayor: a Comissioner Public Works and four Alderm< tie ht one from each Ward, as the Den in cratic Nominee to be voted for the election to be held tho scco ?d d ir. uesday in April 1920. Pledges must be filed and f? paid to the City Clerk on or befc E five o'clock p. m. March 19th. 195 The following will act as manag? >d of the eletcion: '0 j At the shops J. L. Clark, L. 1 Pg iDansby and Zimmer Howie, id i At the Cotton Mill, L. C. Mart: n W. S. Martin and G. W. Godfrey. At the City Hall, T. C. Seal, C. Botts and J. A. Cheek. In case, a second primary is nec< ie ary, same will be held Tuesd; ^r s. March 30th. and the same manage it .will serve. J: I March 1st. 1920. t0 W. P. GREENE, s- Chairman Democratic Executi Committee. ;2-3-2t on 3 & 9. I jl. An Irish Courtship. it ! n-! An Irish sheriff got a writ to ser |a voung widow and, on coming i ?' )'< her presence, said: "Madam. I ha 'ii attachment for you.' re | "My clear sir." she said, blushi I "your attachment is reciprocated." ( "You don't understand me. you mi kc, t-ioceed to court," said the sheriff. ''Well, I know 'tis leap year, but ! I'tofer to lot you do the courting vol ! olf. Men are much better at that th women." j Madnni. this is no time for foolii [;..! Tin* 'ustice is waiting." "Tho justice waiting? Well, I si I i ose I must go. but the tiling is o- .idden. and besides I'd prefer a pri< t > do it!" Fifty thousand miles of navigal ; v.-.- tor is provided by the Aniaz ::!v : r-nd it* tributaries. * MONDAY MAR' ITH A CAR LOAD OF N< I A TERPSICHOREAr ALL THE LATEST AND NOVELTY IS BELVA JANE FREN( al Treat Oh Daddy Surrounded by aE ^ Jj : That will Please i|yA ou Do See This Show. IE AT BOX OFfK t The State of South Carolina ^ County of Abbeviile. At the regular Session of General, ^ Assembly of the State of South Caroln lina 1916, an act was passed reouirla. a ing the County Board of Conimis-i jje sioners of Abbeville County to insert) 0j?'in a County Newspaper a notice fori 0? the purpose of borrowing money for 0f County expenses. >n Now, in pursuant to said act, the 10_ County Board of Commissioners will at receive bids for the sum of Thirty-j n(j Thousand ($30,000) Dollars, payable | one year from date. lgs Bids to be heard between Eleven and Twelve o'clock A. M. March 16th, >0. 920. ! ,rp W A. Stevenson, , Supervisor of Abbeville County. ' ^ M. L. Evans, Secretary of Board. , n March 2nd, 1920. A CHURCH WINE LURES ' A- HIM FROM PRAYERS Washington, D. C.?Rev. J. Henning Nelms of the Church of the AsiS~ cension, noted the devout appearance > ay of a stranger, kneeling alone in the ? />hnroh Snnip time later the StrailK- i< ,er had gone and with him six quarts ! :of communion wine from the church 1 cupboard. v >1RS. HOSE PASTOR STOKFS ve (JETS \ XEW TKr v r. St. Louis. Mo, March ft.?The i'nit-' od States circuit court of appeals ho. re t today reversed the verdict by which yrs. ^ose Pastor Str?'ce3, vulthy Xcw York socialist. ; convicted in Kansas Ciry in June, ,'DIS ot' viola:-, vc ii.p the espiouag? act. aru deiumdod 11- ' !.r- for no v.- ?ria1 Vrs S'ok'j? ve -.v;is sentenced to ton i? pr'fonment ng How She Pelf. is! I I'mom her return home from the,] j.nr!<. little Alice greeted her mother I enthusiastically, confiding the eino-'i ir-1 t'ons she had experienced as she an i swung round the curves of the roller Ji coaster. : lg. "Were you frightened, dear?" <iue.s-,| tioned her mother. ip- "No. I wasn't frightened." Alice re- i on , n'i.i.1 !:i!r wlion 1 wcllt round IllOSC ;st j ; v.i'iil turns so las' [ folt just ;is if: j I Ii:id frockles on my stomach!" ! Tvurraved Cards and Invitations? ' on , !T!v I'ross and Banner Co. I CH 15th f OVELTIES M TREAT OF | ' SOCIETY | DANCES- 1 :h earl siss J?| Ms 8 ' i Its A Laugh | :?' NOW . I HNMHBBi C-VERNMEIiT SHOULD PURCHASE LIQUOR HELD IN BOND Westerville, Ohio, Mar. 6.?Purchase Kia Ppiiprai erovernment of all li quor stocks in bond is urged by the Anti-Saloon League in a statement issued here today at the League's national headquarters by Ernest H. Cherrington, secretary of the league's executive committee. The statement says: "Now that prohibition has gone into effect everything which the government can do to make it easy to enforce the law should be done. "With over sixty million gallons of whiskey in bonded warehouses there in a constant temptation to devise ways and means of utilizing that liquor in spite of the law. Moreover, so long as that whiskey is in existence, those who own it, realizing as they do its great commercial value except for prohibition will be constantly tempted to use millions of dollars in efforts to repeal and bro.ik down the prohibition laws. Government Should Purchase Whiskey. "The government of the United States should purchase that wmsney it a price to be fixed by a federal commission which price should represent the actual cost of producing it. CJpon purchasing the whiskey the government should convert it promptly into denatured alcohol for which there is an ever increasing demand. "By such an arrangement, the distillers will get all they actually have invested in the whiskey. The greatest temptation to break the prohibirorv law will be removed. The incentive to spend vast sums of money io secure repeal of proamnion or a serious modification of the law will l)e eliminated: the government will l)e able to realize almost as much from the sale of the whiskey in the form of denatured alcohol as the whiskey will cost the government, and the public will be the gainer in every kvav. It will require less effort and expense to enforce the law." It was ?aid the Anti-Saloon League may ask congress for legislation authorizing purchase of all bonded liquors. T!if First <|u;irrei ilt?- 0!i I wish I could pot bold i-f sonio good biscuits Iiko mother usc ' to make for me. Ami I w*i?h I coiill irf sonio cood cloth - W' -r f '' ! ;o t?uy for r-v.\