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\ / Abbeville Press and Banner 1R44. $2.(mheYear. Tri-Weekly, Abbeville, S. C., Friday, June 11,1920._ Single Copie?, Five Cento. 76th Year. . ABBEVILLE VOTES ~j AGAINST BONUS * ! "y SPECIAL MEETING OF AMERICAN LEGION POST NO. 2 HELD YESTERDAY AFTERNOON SHOWS UNANIMOUS OPPOSITION TO ANY FORM OF CASH BONUS FOR ABLE. BODIED EX-SERVICE MEN In the shade of the old water oak tree in front of the County Court House late yesterday afternoon the swrvnr? convention was held in Abbeville. It was a called | meeting of the Abbeville Post No. | v 2, American Legion, for the purpose of selecting delegates to the State convention of the American Legion to be held in Spartanburg, the City of Success, and the home of Major Hemphill, Abbeville's best advertiser, on next, Tuesday. Post Commander W. D. Wilkinson called the me.eting to order and outlined the business upon which the post was to act. The first question brought up was that of the bonus, brought up first because as Congress had been unable to decide just wnat to ao, it | was presumed by the Legionnaires that their assistance in getting rid of this Gorgian knot was urgently needed. And the knot was quickly loosed so far as the Abbeville post is concerned. When the post commander called for a motion Wallace Harris moved that "the Abbeville post go on record as being strongly opposed to any form of cash bonus for able-bodied ex_ service men while as yet no ample provision has been made for those soldiers and sailors who were either partially or wholly disabled as a result of their services in the military forces of the United States." \_<>ranianaer wiiKinson, caning Lieut. Carroll Swetenberg to take the "tree'^stated that he wished to amend the motion before the post which had in the meantime re-; ceived .several seconds, by making | the motion "that the Abbeville post; on record as being opposed to! any cash bonus ever being paid I able-bodied ex_service men." Lieut, j E. E. Cox ,after a slight delibera. I tion, stated that he didn't know about that. " In fifty years some of us will be real old vets, and fifty or seventy-five dollars may come in right handy," he said. So upon the strength of fact that some of the Legionnaires might in the far, dis- ] tant future need the pecuniary as-! cicf o rinn o /-\-P Cn 'r? i oiououtc vi a ui uaiii ^ dolars, the motion, as originally put by Mr. Harris, was unanimously carried. The next question taken up was that of sending delegates to the State convention . next Tuesday when the South Carolina posts will decide whether they will agin take the bits in their mouth and secede from the national organization, because of the alleged over-riding of the Palmetto posts' expression of opinion as being unalterably opposed to a cash bonus for all ex. service men, by the national executive committee of the Legion. ? Secession was discussed, pro and con, by many of the members present at the meeting and it may be truthfully said that if the delegates to the statfe convention had been instructed at all, they would have been instructed to vote against se cession! n any torm. JHowever, tne post expressed its confidcnce in the delegates selected, and the following members will represent the Abbeville post in Spartanburg next Tuesday and will vote as their best judgment directs them: R. E. Cox, Carrol Swetenburg, W. F. Jones, Arthur Rosenberg and J. D. Fulp. Just as soon as the decision of the state convention at Spartanburg is | known, provided it does not vote for secession, the Abbeville post is , planning for a membership drive and" to fit up club rooms and "pull off' seme society stunts. WOMAN SHOT BY MARVIN FELL, DIES I Emma Madison, the aged colored woman of the Cedar Springs neigh borhood who was shot Monday bj Marvin Fell, a white farmer of the same section died early this morning from the effects of the shots. .Judge Hollingsworth held an inquest over the body this morning and the testimony of Nathan Madison, husband of the deceased, tends to completely exonerate Mr. Fell, whc states that he did not fire until the woman had drawn a pistol on him. The particulars of the killing, a: brought out at the inquest this morning, are that on Monday morning Mr, Fell went to the house of the Madisons who were tenants of his and secured Nathan to help him stake ofl S an acre of cotton for Emma to chop, After Mr. Fell and Madison had staked off the cotton and returned to the house the former told Emma that he wanted her to chop his cotton that day. She replied that she was not going to do it. He then told hei that she would either have to do the work or else leave his farm. This evidently enraged the woman who began cursing Mr. Fell, swearing that she was neither going to work noi move off his place. The woman's husband, to prevent any further trouble asked Mr. Fell to go on away and leave her. As Mr. Fell started to turn to go the woman jerked a pistol from under her apron and drew it on him. He then pulled his pistol and shot her in the arm. She turned into the house and ran to an open window in the end of the room by which Mr. Fell was to pass. When he reached that end of the house he saw the woman with drawn pistol pointed at him. He shot at her again, the bullet penerating her abdomen. This wound was the direct cause of her death today. Mr. Fell came to Abbeville this morning and surrendered to Sheriff Burts. Later in the day Judge Frank B. Gary granted him bail in the sum of $500. CONVENTION FLASHES Coliseum Chicago, 12:20 p. m.?Gov. Allen consumed "22 minutes in putting General Wood before- the convention. He received a tremendous ovation at he conclusion of his speech. The hall has been in wild turmoil for ten minutes and the demonstration seems just starting. Twenty nine minutes of cheering but enthusiasm is beginning to slump a little. Lodge gave up attempts to quell the crowd. 1:25 p. m. After 39 minutes of cheerijig following the nomination of Wood by Allen order was restored by Chairman Lodge, who announced two seconding speeches be allowed. Knox of New Hampshire rose to second the nomination. CONTRACT MADE WITH ENGINEER The Abbeville County highway commission this week closed the contract with H. B. Humbert of Laurens County as engineer for Abbeville County. Mr. Humbert has Tiad successful experience in his chosen work and was selected as County engineer from among a number of applicants as being the engineer best fitted for the work planned in this County. Mr. Humbert is to begm the survey of the Donalds?Due West-Abbeville highway within a few days. Mr. Hamlet is a graduate of Erskine College. He served for a time as supervisor of Laurens county, where he made something of a reputation as a road builder. ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE Miss Florence Neuffer and Miss Vireinia Leslie are in Winnsboro this week attending the Missionary conference of the Methodist church. Miss Florence represents the young people's society of the Abbeville church. After the conference the two young ladies will visit for some time with their aunt, Mrs. J. B Doty. ; ABBEVILLE PI > ELECTRIC r ; From Donalds Via Due Donalds-Due West ' necting With P. and I Being Discussed Fo ? Furniture Factc Commerce Ha Ball i The big news is out. The "three ' men in a car" have returned enthusiastic over their visit to Wil | liamston and Belton. Messrs. J. S. Stark, T. G. White ' Bradley Reese C. E. Williamson and J. M. Nickles visited these two 1 towns Wednesday and conferred 'jwith Messrs. Blair Rice at Belton 'relative to the cost of equipping ' towel or hosiery facory to be put into the old Abbeville furniture 1 factory. At Williamston the party interviewed Dr. Jim Wilson regarding (the purdvasfe c(f the Donalds-^Due ' West railroad, the laying of a road bed from Due West to Abbeville, 1 and the installation of electric car service from Abbeville to Donalds ii-L AL- J | connecting inere wun uie ncu. mont and Northern for Greenwood, Anderson, Spartanburg and Greenville. As an indication of the interest j aroused by their expedition is the ( fact that Mr. Blair Rice of Belton, j owner of the Belton Towel factory, l is today in the city going over the I furniture factory buildings with the , owners and all that is needed to i bring about the establishment of I such an industry in the city is for , the business men to back it up. ! The fact that Mr. Rice's plant at i Belton has developed from a $14,i 000 concern to a plant now valued at over $200,000 within a. few years ; is ample proof that a towel factory, properly managed, would be a splendid investment for the stock_ holders as well as a magnet to draw, AND STILL THEY COME J j Mrs. L. R. Wilson of Antreville,' l visited the city today. Her first expenditure was made at the office of i Ai>kn?;iin Pvocc nnrJ Banner I JL lie -T.UUG V1WV. *. ivux I where she paid for a subscription to the best paper in the county. Mrs. Jas. .F. Clinkscales, of Monterey, accompanied by her beautiful' . daughter, Mrs. A. M. Hill, Jr., of Darlington, who is visiting her parents, called at the office yesterday and subscribed. It's quite the custom now. DONALDS OIL MILL SOLD I j The Donalds Oil Mill was sold 1 * -* 1- 1 j this week to d. Hi. Lrfpscomu anu aoj sociates of Greenville. ^The new j company proposes to double the j capacity of both the oil mill and ' j ginnery. The farmers of the Don- j [ aids section were hard hit last fall' j by reason of insufficient ginning J facilities. HONOR STUDENT HOME. j Cadet Ralph Lyon, one of our , smartest products, returned yester. day from Charleston where he has been a student at the Citadel the past , session. Ralph won first place in the competitive examination last summer and has upheld his splendid i scholarship record at the Citadel. MR. HOWIE HOME. Mr. T. V. Howie who has been in 1 a hospital in Chester for the past I week, returned to Abbeville Wednesday fully restored to health and is about his accustomed work. Itfrs. Howie went over to Chester Tuesday and returned with him. j DEMONSTRATION CLUB MEETS. j The Brownlee home demonstra-j ! tion club will hold its regular meet^ ing on June 28th at 4 o'clock p. m.' j instead of June 15th. The change is made so that the report of the dele_ j gates now at Winthrop college may be heard. BANNING FOR AL RAILWAY i West Taking Over the Steam Railway, ConN. at Donalds?Plans >r Towel Mill in Old ry?Chamber of s Started the Rolling. good people to Abbeville to live. Mr. Rice states that he is very much interested in the establishment of such an industry here and would take all the stock he can carry.X . Dr. Jim Wilson, the retired derftist and traction magnate of Wil_ liamston, stated to the representa- ' tives when they visited him Wednesday, that for ten years he has had an eye on the Due West rail- ' road and the extension of that line to Abbeville, making an electric road of the whole affair and that he was glad that the Abbeville people were becoming interested at last. , a Dr. Wilson is the man who built A ct4-waa4> woilnrava on/1 in tUC AIIUCl OV/11 Ol/l CCI; iaiiiiujo MUM bonnection with Mr. Caughman of Indianapolis, built the electric line from Belton to Anderson. They later sold out to the Dukes.Dr. Wilson after conferring with the Abbeville representatives sent out by the Chamber^of Commerce and seeing that they really me^nt business said that he would immediately get up estimates on the cost of building the road bed from Due West to Abbeville, and just as soon as the estimates were completed that he j1 would come here and go over the whole situation. Much interest is manifested on . the part of the citizens of Abbeville j and the electric railway and towel factory are the chief topics of con- ' versation o? the streets today. WANTS PART OF EDGEFIELD 1 1 At a meeting of citizens held at McCormick this week plans were perfected to survey the six miles of Edgefield County bordering on the Savannah river from about three- , fourths of a mile below Meriwether , to a point near the power com-1 j pany's dam below Furey's Ferry. I j This territory, McCormick citizens}, hope to include in the present boundaries of their county and the funds necessary for defraying all ( expenses of the survey and election were raised at the mass meetin;:. A petition has been presented Gover- . nor Cooper to order an election. ] GOES TO LEXINGTON Davis Kerr, Jr., left today for Lex 1 ington, Va., where he wil attend the commencement exercises of Wash ington and Lee university. Davis will also arrange for a brass band and the | faculty to meet him upon his arriva next fall when he will return to ma- ( triculate as a full-fledged freshman in the university. BASEBALL TOMORROW [ The Abbeville Cotton Mill team ' plays a doubleheader at Belton to- * morrow afternoon. If Abbeville wins both games from Belton and 1 Ware Shoals loses to Honea I*ath. 1 Abbeville will take the lead in the s mill league. ?' < TO ALABAMA IN A CAR < Mr. and Mrs. Watson Harmon, of Pell City, Ala., who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Barnwell this week, leave tomorrow, making ] the trip in a car. Mrs. Barnwell and j little Miss Josephine Barnwell will ] return to Pell City with them. < DOING GOOD IN MEXICO President Wilson offered to send hospital ships, doctors and nurses 1 to Vera Cruz, Mexico, to fight the i Asicatic plague, which is beginning i to be epidemic there. I INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY IN PALMETTO STATE The industrial progress of South Carolina continues unabated, regardless of the high prices of all building materials and of . labor. During the past thirty days a company at Florence has been organized with a capital stock of $500,000 which will manufacture bolts, nuts, locks, etc. Cotton Mills at Greenville have increased their capital two million dollars and mills at Tucapan have increased their stock from $300,000 to $1,000,000. These represent the large outlays of money while there h^ve been numerous smaller companies started in the past month throughout the State. SCOTTISH CHAPLAIN TO PREACH SUNDAY Major Robinson, an ex-chaplain with the Scottish forces in Flanders will preach in the A. R. P. church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The major was quite a militant chaplain while serving with the "Ladies from Hell" and Brother Plaxco tells us that it is worth going a long way just to hear the chaplain read the Bible, as he is a most impressive scripture reader in addition to be_ ing a splendid sermonizer. During the World War Major Robinson was stationed, for a part of the time, in Abbeville, France, whence our city gets its name and he is very much interested in the history of both cities. ' ' I RETURNS TO CHILDHOOD ! Air. John Cheok has turned time backward in its flight :ind been made a child agaii for a week or so. Yesterday feeling more swell than usual, Mr. Cheek, upon <nedical investigation, found that he had developed a regular case of oldfashioned mumps. So certain was be that he really did not have such a childish trouble that he tried some chow-chow pickle. After one spoonful he put asfde his Baptist dignity and his outer garments and went to bed. POPULAR MILLINER LEAVES Miss Leila Ellis, who for the past several seasons has been the popular milliner for Haddon-Wilson left i. J T 1 TTTil - yesterday ior ner nome in winnings j ton, N. C. Miss Ellis' father joined her in Columbia. It is a source of regret to her many friends in and around Abbeville to know that Miss Ellis will not return to Abbeville this fall. During the several years since Miss Ellis has been counted a citizen of our city her sweet voice has been a wonderful addition to the! :hoir of the Methodist church, i where she will be missed most of j ill. R. M. HADDON'S BROTHER DEADj Augustus E. Haddon, youngest srother of R. M. Haddon died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Greenville, after an illness of sevwiAnfUe TUo onr? 1H+A1* ZLCLl lllKJll UliO. XUC iUUCiai uiiu iUVVi ? .| nent was held in Greenville yesterday afternoon. Owing to his own indisposition Mr. R. M. Haddon was jnable to attend the funeral serjervices. The deceased is survived by two >rothers, R. M. Haddon, of Abbeville, J. M. Haddon of Donalds, a rister, Mrs. J. T. Drake, of Shoals . function and two sons and four laughters all of whom live in Sreenville. LIBRARY HOURS. Since the closing of school the liDrary hours are from nine until half j past eleven in the morning. Missj Mary DuPre is still serving In place >f Mrs. Norwood. SUGAR TO BE RATIONED AGAIN The Attorney General's office announced this morning that rationing af sugar as in war time will go into jffect in hotels and restaurants throughout the county on June 21J 1 PARTY RESCUED BY COMPROMISE CONVENTION ADOPTS PLAT FORM AND THEN ADJOURNS TO MEET TODAY?VOTING ' " WILL BEGIN - EARLY THIS MORNING ? NOMINATING SPEECHES EXPECTED SHORTLY AFTER BREAKFAST nhirncft .Tnna 1 rt +Vin party by eleventh hour compromise from a threatened split on the league of nations issue the Republican national convention today adopted a platform and then adjourned to nominate a candidate tomorrow. Harmony on the league issue was reached after many hours of - heated negotiations evolving about the subcommittee on resolutions but bringing into consultation first and last virtually all the big men of the party. In the end the irreconcilables and mild reservationists accepted a treaty plank drafted by Elihu Root before his departure for , Europe several weeks ago but reOAma rlafaila fa rvimif flio ? views of the contending elements. It condemns President Wilson's league covenant, upholds the senate in its rejection of the treaty, and ^ indorses the principle of an international peace concedt in harmony 1 , with American traditions. The relative chance of the presidential candidates apparently was little affected by the platform agreement and on convention eve there was no evidence no developments which changed the situation with Wood, Johnson and Lowden leading, but without any one of "' them having delegates to nominate. So far as the talk of these on the inside revealed, the attainment of harmony over the treaty planl^ had , > ho reflex on any of the candidates except possibly in the case of Senator Johnson. He will not now ap_ pear on the convention floor and that is a disappointment to his supporters who had believed that the appearance of their leader in a treaty fight would help his fight for the nomination. In accord with the plan to finish up the conventions vfrork on a skip stop schedule, it was agreed to convene at 9 a. m. and to hurry through the nomination speeches and remain in continuous session until a candidate is nominated. The plan seemed acceptable to most of the campaign managers and it suitjed the delegates because they ar$ worn out and anxious for the bi? show to end. The convention held two sessions today. Meeting first at 11 a. m. it quickly adjourned when word was brought that the work of the resolutions committee still was uncom_ pleted. The second session began at 4 p. m. and then two hours were whiled away in music, speeches and cheering before Senator Watson brought in the platform. COTTON TODAY Reports of an increase in the condition of about 2 per cent, of cotton crop by the National Ginners Association, good weather and disappoint ing cables were responsible for a further setback in Cotton today, but trade buying made its appearance at a level about 15 to 20 points below yesterday's closing and caused a rally to above yesterday's nal prices. Market is rather dullw ith professionals supplying most of the activity. New Orleans New York Jan. 33:69 33:80 Mar. 33:05 33:28 July 38:32 38:40 Oct. 35:30 35:49 Dec. 34:28 34:45 OFF FOR THE SUMMER Mrs. Ellen P. Norwood and Mrs. Frost, of Charleston, left today for Troy where they will spend the week-end with Mrs. Edwin Parker.