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IN RING, SONQRA *
READY FOR CLASH E
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Also Established That Obregon {
I? An AIlv of the Rebels L?
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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
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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.
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NOTICE! SCHOOL ELECTION
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Whereas, a petition has been 101
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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.
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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
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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!
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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.
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