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WITH VILLA'S HAT f IN RING, SONQRA * READY FOR CLASH E ? itii Also Established That Obregon { I? An AIlv of the Rebels L? !th Auga Prieta, Sonora, Mexico. April L. 20.?Sonora and Mexican federal r leaders today continued preparations ^in for the clash expected as a result of (ve Sonora's withdrawal of allegiance to i the Carranza government. Heartened re by reports that Francisco Villa defin-jer itely had aligned himself with their movement. Sonorans went about plac- j ing troops to prevent an incursion | a] from Chihuahua, while at Juarez and \s\ Cases Grandes federal officers prepar-l_. ed an invading force. j No more news from Sonora forces fr advancing against teuerai garrisuus v.j ii Sinaloa was at hand. These forces . hoped to take Alazatlan and Tepic. the latter the capital of the state of Nay- r &rit. this week. Sonora leaders declared they had numerous reports of a rising against iwi Carranza in Chihuahua, one. to which t>iey attached considerable significau '' co uutil it was convincingly denied. |0 being that General Francisco Crbale.io had transferred his allegiance from j the Carranza to the Sonora govern-j iient. ca Mbreiron is an Ally Generv.l Francisco Seddano, formerly president of the chamoer of deputies m in Mexico City and for some time p, military secretary to General Alvaro * Obregon. reached Xogales yesterday and gave out a statement apparentlv li; i definitely allying General Obregon ^ v.ilh the Sonora rising. Obregon. Go' - ' eral S?r.'nr.o declared, was in a 5>-! N place'" whence he could direct Sonora In activities by radio and other means. ar Sonora leaders are putting large reliance upon Ya'iui and Mayo Indians ar in planning their defense. Military ex- 7,i perts here commented on the fact that go Geneva! Urbalejo reported at Juarez with troops destined for the march on Sonora. is a Yaqui. 1J General Urbalejo. the Juarez reports said, brought word that Carranza . planned to send 6">.000 men against in Scnora. instead of ">0.000 as reported m some days ago. . ha fOTICE! TEACHERS S1< ^ EXAMINATION "C tv The Regular Spring Teacher's Exmination will be held in the Abbepe ille County Court House on Satur ay May 1st, 1920. Examination to begin at 9 a. m. and close at 4 p. m. ^ , All wishing to take the examina- cu ion will come prepared with pencil th nd paper. an W. J. Evans, ly Co. Snpt. of Education. :r' NOTICE! SCHOOL ELECTION te Whereas, a petition has been 101 * m< irculated in Pineville School Dis- vg rict No. 40,asking for an election or the purpose of voting an addition- ca I tax of 4 mills for school purposes; Ai Jid whereas it appears to be proper- we y signed, an election is hereby call- ris d to take place at the school house thi 24th. , ev Those in favor of the tax w'll re! ast a ballot upon which there is 5'e _-i.A ? ... f.a ^ uiMeii or pnncea tne word -"yes". gx *hose opposed will cast a ballot upon gg ^rhich there is written or printed the ^ yrcrd "No." be Rules governing General Elec- tic ions to be observed. po Trustees to act as managers of he aid election." W. J. Evans, Bo Co. Supt. of Education. ga Money Market I ed New York, April 15.?Mercantile pa- Co per 6 3-4a7. Exchange irregular. Sterling 60 day bills 393 1-2: commercial " 60 day bills on banks 393 1-2; commer- bu cial 60 day bills 393: demand 397 1-2; $6 cables 398 1-2. Francs, demand 16.34; cables 1632. Belgian francs, demand 15.32: cables lf?30. Guilders, demand an 27 5-16: cables 37 3-16. Lire, demand wi 2304: cables 2303; marks, demand 171: cables 172. Government bonds weak; iailroad bond's hPiiw t*1? 1 ? mue loans strong; CO days, 90 days and 6 months , * Call money strong: ruling rate 8: mi bpnk acceptance 6. 19 $5 Chicago. April 15.?Corn continued . , to show an upward tendency in price tw today wjth lack of selling pressure an of outstarding feature. Opening prices, $1 which ranged from half cent decline to 7-8 cent advance, were followed by material gains all around. P1 Delays to seeding gave independent re firmness to oats. w Provisions were dull but firm. The close w?.s nervous, 1 1-2 to I 111 1-8 cehts net higher. si' \Y. Polls Threaten Invasion. Berlin. April 14.?The Vossische. Zeintitu ---sys the I'olish government fi has informed the allied supreme- w cuuiitii mat it it intends shortly t? occupy German territory should Ucrmany {ail to carry out her engage pi merits with the Poles. The newspaper asserts that the government considers the situation extremely serious and lias taker. a"'ol necessary precautionary measures. -p Silver Market. ! 1 Nev York.'April 15.?Bar silver 1 IS:1 o Mexican dollars S9%. SNSIONS GOING UP AT ENORMOUS RATE >ston Transcript. Payments which this country will ake to soldiers and beneficiares of ldiers during the fiscal year 01 iy. may exceed $600,000,000, three nes the pension bill for the fiscal >ar of 1919, and, as a matter of ct, one-ninth of the total amount e country has paid in pensions in e last 129 years. The tremendous crease is due to compensating iterans of the great war, who will ceive $332,865,000 from the govnment, if the estimates of the use committee on appropriations re accurate. Pensions paid under.exting law will be kept down to $214,10,000, a reduction of $1,000,000 om last year, but new legislation lich has passed the house and is :ely to pass the senate necessitating nvnnnrlttlirp of $77,")00,000 . to ther with the Expenditures which 11 be made under the war risk inirance act promise to brine: the total 130.659,600. Payments Have Increased Conditions as they exist today have tused the committee to make on extustive study of pensions and the embers have found that pension tvments and the number of pens^ers have increased greatly in the ' t 60 years. In 1870 thei*e were 686 pensioners, with payments id expenses totalling $29,952,486. i 1880 the- figures were 250,802 id $57.624,256; in 1890; 537,944 id $109,620,232; in 1900, in 993, >2 and $142,303,887; In 1910, ! 1,083 and $162,203,887; in 1910, ! 1,083 and $162,631,729; and in >19, 624,427. It will be noted that e number,of pensioners decreased 1910 and 1919, but that the payents increased. Pension legislation is been enacted at almost every ses :>n congress and this year has beer. exception. The house has passed ,ro bills since January 1, one equalizing the rates of pension" to >nfederate war veterans and other nsioning soldiers who served in the ir with Spain, put down the lillippine insurrection and went to e relief of Chna. If the senate cbn,rs with the house the first will cost e government $65,000,000 annually id the second $12,500,000 annual Claimants May Total 600,000 The pension bill which the commite has reported to the house, carry er the appropriatioins of a little jre than $200,000,000, cares for ry few men who participated in the eat war, 115 to be exact, who be-, me entitled to pensions between; >ril 6 and October 2, 1917, which J is prior to the approval of the war| k insurance act. Disbursements by; it bureau to March 31 last, how I er, totalled $83,437,520. The bu-j iu estimates that during the fiscal ar of 1921 it will ,be called upon to re for 250,000 persons and that the penses entailed will total $197, J>,60. The bureau indeed, estimates! 1 - J"1 at unaer liic iavr >i/uvi.v *** * ^ i 600,000 claimants for conpensa-, m with the total expenditures pro- j rtionately larger. The payment of $60 bonus when completed will( :al approximately $260,000,000. mus disbursements by the war dertment to November 30 last aggre-J ted $211,797,0Q0 and it is estimat-l that $1,800,00 will be required to mplete such payments to naval per-j nnel. The marine corps has disrsed $3,500,000 and will pay out ,000,000 more . Members of the: ' ' : ast guard have received $248,220 d expenditures in that organization 11 total more than $300,000 before ey are completed. Payments Nearly Six Billions By poring over dusty files, the comittee has learned that from 1790 to 19 the country paid pensioners (.612,520,402. War of the Revolu>n pensions total $70,000,000; War 1812, $46,049,268 Indian Wars .6,705,750; war with Mexico, $52,>6,295; war with Spain and Philipne insurrection, $65,211,661; <rular establishment, $50,242,665; ar of 1917. $37,275; and unclassi ed $16,508,447. A history of penr>n legislation that would show that .(. first act of congress granting pensns was that of April 10, 1806, benetinjr those who rendered service in le Revolutionary war. Under that :t. officers received half pay, while rivates, who were totally disabled, ceivcd $5 a month. Later five other ,\vs were enacted to benefit the Revttuionary veterans or their relc'ivcs he last law was the act of March p. 878, which granted a service pension f $8 a month to any widow of a Rev olutionary soldier who served for 14 days or more ; by amendment th? amount was increased later to $12 a month. YORK PAYS WIDOW $2,000 York, April 18.?York County has paid to Mary A. Sims, negress, wid!ow of the late Rev. W. T. Sims, I negro preacher who was killed by a York county mob, the sum of $2,00C , the amount of a verdict directed against the county by Judge Thomas S. Sease at the fall term of the Court ' f Common Pleas last year. ; The widow brought suit againsl the county for $2,000 under a statute vhich provides that where a person is lynched by a mob the State shall paj to that person's estate not less than that sum. The case has been hard fought in the courts of York county and there was considerable surprise last fall when after previous trials had resulted in mistrials. Judge Sease di rected a verdict against the county in the full sum asked for. Attorneys representng the county gave notice of appeal to the Supremo Court following direction of the verdict. but recently decided to abandon the appeal and pay up. Sims was pastor of a colored church in the Locust Hill section, near Sharon, and was shot and beaten to death by a mob. All of those charged with complicity in the kill! ins\ including several more or less prominent white men, were acquitted in the Coui't of General Sessions. John A. Marion. Esq., represented t'lp wirlmv nf Sim<5 in tlir> civil nct.iori J. Steele Briee, Esq., represented York County. GREAT WHEAT SHORTAGE E>DA>. GERS OCR FOOD SIP PLY (Manufacturer's Record.) i When the wheat acreage last fall showed a decrease of 25 per cent ana the rve acreage about the same percentage of decline, we repeatedly warned the country that this was merely an indication of lessened farm operations which should give serious conctrn to the whole country. The report of the Department of Ag riculture just made, that the winter : wheat yield promises a decrease cf 24S.000.000 bushels, or a falling off of over 33 per cent, compared with the preceding year, is even worse than we predicted, and indicates a probable I food shortage of alarming propor' tions. The entire wheat yield will fall far ! below the actual consumptive require? nnnntrv and thprp lfi TIO Illt/lltS U1. tile W-UUUL1 J I (4Uk4 VMWS v j possibility of the spring-seeded wheat I crop making up this vacuum and I leaving any large quantity of wheat for export. The country will, therefore, be compelled to use up all of its reserve stock of wheat, and the following year we will be practically entirely bare of wheat. This inevitably means very high prices for flour, and other foodstuffs will naturally follow. All the wild vaporings of Washington politicians will "thus prove to be merely the empty mouthings of time-servers, who seem determined to refuse to face the truth. Three years ago President Wilson urged the editor of the Manufacturers Record not to make public the actual facts as to the steady tendency to a decline in food production in proportion to population, but we were compelled to write him that the American people were entitled to know the truth in order to face intelligently the steady rising cost of foodstuffs. The present alarming decrease in wheat is only one of the signs of the times indicating that this nation must meet a food crisis far more serious than it has ever known. It is now incumbent upon everyone to encourage to the utmost extent the raising of sweet potatoes, white potatoes and other foodstuffs which it is not too late to plant. Unless this be done the present prices of food will, a year or two hence, look very cheap, indeed. It is not yet too late for the Administration to do good by concentrating the thoughts of the country upon this food famine prospect ere it be too late. It is of more vital importance than all of the political tomfoolery with which Washington is deluged? far more important .indeed, than the peace treaty and the League of Nations. State of South Carolina, County of Abbeville, In Probate Court. Notice of final settlement and apnliVn+ion for a final discharge. Take Notice that on the 14th day ! of May, 1920, I will render a final account of my actings and doings as Executor of the estate of Larkin F. ' Agnew, deceased, in the office of the Inrobate judge of Abbeville -County, , and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as such, All persons having demands against said estate will present for payment in or before that day, proven and au thenticated or be forever barred. W. M. Agnew, Executor. ! 4-2l-3t. Engraved Cards and Invltuions? 1 The Press and banner Co. MIC Dis< 25 per cen ; articles until I" Silk, Georg( and Gingh; Coat Suits, 1 Chine Wais Silk Hose. 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