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the Year. Tri-Weekly. Abbeville, S. C? Monday, June 15,1920 Single Copies, Five CenU. 76th Year.
MEMORIAL SEMES
' AT BAPTIST CHURCH
OF THE JOHN H. WINDER DIV
IS10N- OF THE B. OF L/E.?DR
L. J. BRISTOW PREACES SER
MON TO LARGE CONGREGA
TION?MR. HOWIE WAS IN
CHARGE OF SERVICES.
The annual Memorial Service < oi
the Jehn H. Winder Division of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was held in the Abbeville Baptist
church Sunday eveninsr at 8:3G
o'clock. Mr. T. V. Howie, chairman
of the committee on Memorial Exercises
deserves the credit for engineering
the services through so successfully.
There was an unusually
large assemblage due bo doubt to the
presence of the local railroad men
and due also to Mr. Howie's untiring
zeal and efforts in securing the cooperation
of all the denominations
to join with the Brotherhood in this
serviee.
Dr. Louis J. Bristow was the
speaker of the eveniner. His message
was appropriate and Impressively
delivered. Dr. Bristow recited somewhat
at length the history and achievements
of the organization. The
structure of this splendid organization
has a four-fold foundation, sobriety,
truth, justice, morality.
The speaker said there were only
two authentic messages from the other
world and, about one of these he
centered his thought. The words of
the Lord after the resurrection to his
doubting disciples were, "Peace be
unto you." Contrasted with this message
are the messages of the so-call
ed Spiritists of the present day. Dr.
Bristow conceived that if the members
of the Brotherhood should trans
rait a message to the surviving members
it would be two-fold. First, maintain
the order of Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, maintain it
for your earthly life, maintain it for
> ' your own sakes, maintain it in the
interest of sobriety, truth, justice,
morality, maintain it for the sake of
our widows and orphans. Second,
prepare for eternity. The speaker
showed that the aims of the organization
were to a certain extent provisions
for this life and life on earth.
The speaker stressed the point that
the life of the locomotive engineer
was ketween thirty-five and thirtysix
years as an average. Life is uncertain.
Preparation for death is Imperative
for the sake of those we leave
behind, but it is just as imperative
for tke life beyond death.# The organization
was counselled to live soberly,
righteously, redeeming the
time; to live justly, speak truth, to
follow Christ, the King.
Another feature of the exercises
was the male quartette, composed of
Messrs Ellis, Smith, Sanders and
Hughes. Two special selections were
very effectively rendered, "Life is
Like a Railroad" and "I Will Walk
and Talk with the King.' Miss Victoria
Howie presided at the organ
with grace and ease. The Prelude and
Offertory deserve special mention.
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
Lieut. E. L. Visanska, one of the
k prominent lawyers of Charleston, is
in Abbeville visiting his home people
Jtfr. Visanska is about to sail for
England. From there he will go to
i France to visit the battlefields of
the great war where he saw service.
He will also visit Switzerland and
other countries on his tour through
Europe.
MEETING WITH BAPTISTS
It has been announced that a series
of meetings will begin at the
Baptist church next Sunday. Services
will be held every evening during
the week following, at 8:30
o'clock in the evening. Thex-e will be
no morning services. The preaching
> will be by the pastor, Dr. Louis J.
Bristow.
DR. ROBERTSON SPEAKS
AT ABBEVILLE SABBATH
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Dr. John Robertson, formerly of,
Glasgow Scotland, preached in The
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Church Sabbath morning to a good
congregation. The people of Abbe-j
ville had heard of Dr. Robertson be- j
fore his coming here and a good con-j
gregation awaited him when he ar,
rived in Abbeville.
Dr. Robertson is a native Scot. He;
| preached for awhile in Edinburgh,'
[ succeeding Dr. John MfcNeill there.J
Later he was for twenty years pas-:
tor j of Temple Presbyterian Church
, in Glasgow. For twenty years before
the World War he held the chair of
Old Testament Exegesis at the University
of Minnessota. At the outbreak
of the war, he offered his'services
to the British government de-J
siring to enter the army as ehaplainj
in order that he might be with his
"lads" from Glasgow who had grown'
up in his ministry. His services were
i rejected because his age was more'
| than forty. Finally he succeeded in j
! entering the army at his own ex
' I pense, and he was on the Somme with
i the boys from his old charge. He saw j
J 413 of the 500 who went from hisj
| old church go down to battle never J
J to return. The war has made a deep!
! impression on Dr. Robertson.
j Sabbath morning he recited the |
story of the Prodigal Son. He did not
1 read it, no bible was necessary be-'
1 cause he had learned it so that hej
I might give the story to the boys at!
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uie iruni. wnen mere were nu liguts.;
j His discourse was a story of his ex-j
periences in the war with his "lads" j
intei*woven with the story of the
,! Prodigal Son. He spoke for an hour^
and he held every person present,
| young and old, with the simple, but(
1 beautiful picture which he drew of
j the war days on the Stxnme. He divid-'
ed his discourse into three heads, as|
i college men are wont to do, he said,'
Away from home; Home sickness;1
and Home. He tells his stories of the'
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great war like a master. He is tender,
touching, and always interesting. |
He preaches as he says himself, none
of the new things which you hear
from the pulpit these days, but "Only
Jesus."
Dr. Robertson, who still holds the
rank of Major in the British Army,
is in this country doing literary work.
He met Dr. Darlington in Washington,
and by him was persuaded to go
to Due West. He is pursuing his work
there now, and as he was for awihle
stationed in Abbeville, France, during
the war he desired to come to Ab,
beville, South Carolina, to see why
it was that Dr. De la Howe wanted
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this place named for his native city,
lie said as he turned in the road at
Old Long Cane and looked across the
fields to the sky-line he understood
(it all, because there was a great similarity
in the two places.
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Those people who heard Dr. Rob-.
'< ertson will be glad to know that he
will come to Abbeville again in the
, fall, and that he will preach for a
week in the "kirk" around the cor-j
; ner. Those people who missed a treat;
i on yesterday in failing to hear him, |
| will be glad to hear him when he.
.returns. He comes to preach the^
: simple story of Jesus and his love fori
fallen man.
ANDREW JACKSON BUYS HOME
Andrew Jackson has purchased
from Judge Frank B. Gary, through
Abbeville Insurance and Trust Co.^J
the home on Parker Street until re-: 1
cently occupied by Mr. and Mrs. C. J
E. Hix, and now by Mr. and Mrs.''
Purdy. |1
The house is a pretty bungalowj
and the location is most desirable j'
j being in the vicinity of Greenville,
street where most of the best people
in the city reside. Mr. and Mrs. Jack-!1
son will be welcomed to that part of,
town by their new neighbors. They|
will not take charge, however, until
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MR. HADDON IMPROVES.
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The friends of Mr. R. M. Haddon;.
will be glad to know that he has so far i
' recovered from his recent sicknes <
[ as to be able to be up and out again/1
WARREN G. h
REPUBL1CA
IS NEW
Coliseum, Chicago, June 12.?Fo
president of the United States, Warren
G. Harding of Ohio.
For vice president, Calvin Coolidge
of Massachusetts.
This is the Republican ticket for
the 1920 campaign.
It was chosen in the convention
this afternoon after a long drawn out
battle, ten ballots being required to
nominate Harding for the 'first place
on the ticket.
Hardiness vote was 674 7-10 near
ly more (than 220 in excess of the
number "required to nominate.
His nearest competitor, Genera]
Leonard Wooi , received 157 1-2 on
the final ballot.
Hiram Johnson, in third place, received
80 4-5.
Frank 0. Lowden, on the x final
ballot received 12.
Harding, the junior senator from
Ohio, had the backing or every one
of the old guard leaders in the convention.
He was also ravored by
Boise Penrose, who from his sick
bed in Philadelphia issued his orders
to the convention tnrough Senator
Watson of Indiana ane John T.
King of Connecticut.
Starting out with the small vote of
65 1-2 votes on the first ballot taken
yesterday, Harding, with the aid of
the masterlv leaders of the old cuard
faction, steadily won his way to the
top, gaining on each successive ballot
taken today. His lowest vote was
58 1-2 and was recorded in the third
ballot yesterday.
Warren G. Harding is editor and
proprietor of the Marion Ohio Star
and has represented Ohio In the
United States senate since Nov. 3,
1914. He is a Eaptist, admirer of
the late Colonel Theodore Koosevelt
and of the military genius or Napoleon
and the statesmanship of.Alexander
Hamilton. He numbers William
Howard Taft among his closest
friends. He was born Nov. 2, 1865
in Blooming Grove, Morrow County,
Ohio. '
On his father's side the Republican
nominee for the presidency is a descendant
of the Scots who settled in
Pennsylvania in Colonial times. His
father was a physician. His mother
was Miss Phoebe Elizabeth Dlckerson
a descendant of the Van TCivk fnmilv
ox Dutch ancestry. !
Boyhood on Farm.
His boyhood was spent on the farm
which his father conducted in addition
to practising medicine. After attending
the "little red school house"
of the neighboring town until he wa3
14 he entered the Ohio Central College
at Iberia from which he was
graduated in 1882. He paid most of
the expenses of his tuition from his
own earnings in cutting corn, driving
teams, working as a railroad laborer
and also in painting barns. He also
worked in the office of the village paper
and there learned the art of setting
type and "making up" forms. In1
his graduating year he taught a vil-j
lage school and also played the horn
in the village band.
Became Editor.
When the family moved to Marion
in 1884, the young man, with the as-1
sistance of his father, acquired a
half interest in the Daily Star and assumed
the editorship of the strug-'
grling little journal. He had been edl-'
tor only ten days when the Blaine'
and Logan campaign openecr In Chicago.
He became a Blaine enthusiast'
and finally told the two printers and
the office boy to get out the paper and
hurried away to Chicago. When * he j
got back to Marion the sneriff had
closed the shop. He then became a
reporter on the Marion Mirror at $7j
a week and kept the place until he
was fired for refusal to write an editorial
against Blaine.
Finally he and "Jack" Warwick,
now a paragrapher on the Toledo
Blade managed to raise enough mon-J
ey to resurrect the Star. Warwick!
j
drew out of the venture shortly after-j
ward, but Harding stuck aftd got the j
IARDING,
N NOMINEE, ,
SPAPERMANt
N i n
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J paper on its feet. It is stated that in
all the time of his ownership there a
| ha3 never been a strike or a threat of j a
i a strike on the paper which is now e
I prosperous and powerful. j F
Political Success. ! h
j In 1900 Harding decided to accept b
1 the nomination for state senator. He n
; was elected and served four years. In! ii
1 1901 he was named for lieutenant f
governor but was defeated because [ t
I of a split in the party. His popular-;
' ity in the state increased rapidly and j s
1 he was talked of for the presidency! a
I and when he ran for the senate in' j
1914 he was elected by a majority of s
100,000 running 3,000 votes ahead f
j of the nearest man on the ticket. | s
In the senate he has made a nota-( t
' ble record. He became a member of I o
the important committee on foreign n
j relations and during the war was ajr
warm supporter of the Wilson ad-' J
ministration. Later however, he crit-! I
' icized the president severely. j fi
Hit Opinion of Roosevelt.
Before the United States entered!
the war the senator was asked what|
he thought would have happened to ^
i the country if Roosevelt had been'
I X3
1 president when the war beran.
Is
"If Theodore Roosevelt had been j,
president" he replied, "the Lusitania jj
never would have been sunk and we h
should today be living tinder the' ^
guarantee of peace rather than trem-j
bling on the verge of war." j
He introduced in the senate an
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amendment to a bill which, if it had
been adopted, would have permitted
the former Colonel of the rough rid-' .]
ers to organize a division of volun- .
teers and lead it to France. !
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Wanted Reservations
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At the end of the war Senator j p
Harding was an earnest advocate of1
prompt making and of legitimate ! ^
cooperation among the nations of ! je
the world to avert danger of future j
wars, but he was strongly opposed
to adoption of the league of nations
covenant without effective reserva- j ^
tions. Justifving his position on this
question, the senator said in a t(
speech in the senate last Septem-1
ber: !
"It may be very old fashioned; it ^
may be reactionary; it may be'
shocking to .pacifists and dreamers
alike, but I choose for our own peo-|
pie, a hundred million or more, the a1
! right to search the American con- i
^ ' t f
science and prescribe our own obli-;
gations to ourselves and the world's ] w
civilization." j ^
A
I Need Honesty in Politics |
The senator believes honesty to 1 ^
1 ' lc
to be a panacea for all the ills of j
the political system. "And we don't
need honesty in politics any more
than we need it in business, in social
life or religion" he added, in j(
speaking on this line recently. " It s(
will drive out cheats and swindlers,
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high and low. There is no end to the (
reformation it will work. It exalts j,
men and commands confidence. The I
ai
American belief in Colonel Roosevelt
is founded on the popular be- ^
i.:- -i i.-x. 1 ?
uei in 111s ausuiuie nunesty." ^
The Hardings live In a comfort- ^
able home , the most conspicious .
feature of which is the number of
books scattered about the rooms. ^
The senator is very fond of dogs ^
and likes to drive an automobile or ^
run a motor boat,being an expert at
both.
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Married in 1891
On July 8, 1891, Warren Harding
married Miss Florence Kling,
daughter of Amos H. Kling, a lead- .
ing business man of Marion. It is
related that when she was born her
father was disappointed she was not
a boy and consoled himself by ^
bringing her up more as a boy than ^
as a giri. &ne was iona 01 norses,
dogs and outdoor life and took .
much interest in her father's busi- "
ness. In her early teens when she
had to leave school on account of re
threatened loss of sight, she be- re
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(Continued on Page Eight.) mi
WATT AND EDWARDS |,
GRADUATE AT FURMAN
In the recent commencement of
'urman University at Greenville,1
Abbeville county was represented-1
>y graduates among the best and
nost promising young men Mr. Sam
Vatt, and Mr. W. W. Edwards, Jr.,'s
ibth of Due West. Mr. Edwards was
member of the Glee Club, and wasj
bo cheer leader for the athletic
vents of the year. In these two ca-j
iacities he made a very large contri^
ution to the life of the student'
ody. The whole University commuiity
sees these young men leave/the
nstitution with real regret, and wish
or them the ' highest success in I
heir future careers. _ |c
Furman University has ha<{ a veipr.8
uccessful year's work both in its d
cademic, literary-and athletic lift. | *
ts hns^Kftll +<mm wnn +V10 AhamnlAtt.1 r
hip of the state this spring, and its! I
ootball team tied for the champion- 1
hip of the state laat fall. It is rare
hat any college has had such a rec- s
rd in athletic. Commencement was a
uade notable by the^formai inaugu- c
ati.on of the new President^, Dr. W. ^
. McGlothlin.,He has been acting as d
'resident of the .University since the I
rst of last July. c
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MRS. COBB CALLED HOME.
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Mrs. Rebecca Cobb died at herjr
iome in Fort Pickens, Sabbath after-j o
ioon, June 13>th, at 3 o'clock, in the f
ixty-fifth year o| her life. Mrs. Cobb i<
ftH nnf- hopn woll ainna iVin /Ifiofli nf
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er son, Parker Cobb, who made his a
oine with her until his death some i]
wo months ago. t
Mrs. Cobb, before her marriage,
/as Miss Rebecca Scott. She was a
ative of this county, and many years a
go came to Abbeville with her fa- o
ler, who took charge at that time of a
lie tanyard in Abbeville. She mar- p
ied here, and lived here all her life r
ubsequently. Her husband disd many ?<
ears ago, leaving her two sons,'t]
arker and Thomas Cobb. Tommle a
larried and moved away to A-tlanta,'.
ut Parker remained at the old home, o
inding cheer and comfort to his ^ged ri
lother in her declining years. He f]
rected for her a new home and yhen ir
Drtune was about to smile on he? in n
er old age,jthe son who had done so tl
ell was called away, and now she rr
l
>o is called. t j h:
Since the death of Parker her son, w
homas, has returned to Abbeville to "
e with his mother. He is now the
nly survivor.
Funeral services were conducted
t the Methodist Church, this Monay
morning at 11 o'clock, and in-| K
;rment was at Long Cane. Those n;
ere happy years that she lived in (:
istoric Ft. Pickens with Parker. f<
nd now she sleeps peacefully in w
ong Cane beside her boy whom she a:
ived so well. : D
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DR. JOHN LYON ILL j V
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The news which comes from Dr. j jyj
3hn Lyon, of Greenwood, brings1 ,
>itow to his many friends in Abbe- j h,
lie. Dr. Lyon has., not been well for'a.
>metime, and some two weeks ago I j.}
went to John Hopkins for ex-j^
nination. Last week news came j
lat his condition was not favor-1
?le, and one of his partners and
xs. Lyon were called to Baltimore. ^
ews came Saturday tha^ the phycians
in charge had despaired of ^
s life and that he would be ^
rought home. He left Baltimore j
;sterday in charge of Dr. Blake. c?
t Washington a message was sent
> relatives here that he was grow- p
g worse. 4 ' E
Dr. Lyon is an Abbeville boy who
ts made good. He was educated at
rskine College and studied meiine
in Charleston. He located first ,
, Ninety-Six and later moved to
reenwood. His native abaility, ap- ar
ication, and strong good sense ^
ive contributed to his success in]
re, and he finds himself while still
young man one of the leaders of c!!
s profession in this section.
Many relatives and friend.* who Ji
ad this will still hope that he may 0
gain his health and be spared to D'
s family and to the city where he Jz
akes his home.
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"OLD GLORY" SPIRIT
URGED BY COLBY
AYS AMERICAN BANNER CANNOT
SHELTER SELFISHNESS
"IT IS FLAG OF SERVICE"?
SECRETARY DECLARES PROBLEMS
CAN BE SOLVED .
SPIRIT OF STAR AND STRIPES
Washington, June 13.??-"No
'olicy of selfish aloofness, no poliy
of callous detachment from life
md the world can find shelter unler
the folds of the American
Tag," Secretary of State Colby delared
today in an address at Flag
)ay exercises of the Washington
odge of Elks. ,
"The times call for great action,
aid Mr. Colby. "We have problems
it home which clamor for solution
>rriy in the spirit of the flag. We n
lave duties abroad and generous
luties abroad which are long postponed
and which can only be dis_
harged in the noble and generous
pirit of the flag.
"The ideals of government are
trapped in its folds. It commemoates
the deeds and the sacrifices of
>ur best and bravest men. It is no
lag for a nation which is selfish. It
s no flag for a people which is puillanimous?it
is not an approprite
banner for a policy of declared '
ndifference to the sufferings or
he future of the world.
Message of Cheer
"The American flag speaks today
s it has always spoken, a message
f cheer and help to the oppressed
clear note of leadership to -the asiring
in all lands; a note of aid and
to liberty wherever liberty
alters or is assailed. It speaks for
ie redemption and not the repudition
of the nation's pledges.
"It is the flag of work, of service
f courage. It is the flag of chivaldus
men and noble women. It is a
lag of glory.sjt is a flag which has
toved forward on every field?
ever backward; and today, and at .
lis hour it cannot be an emblem of
loral retreat upon that field of
ighest service, the rescue of the
orld ,to which our destiny as a naon
calls us."
J. D. KERR, JR., IN WRECK
Davis Kerr, son of old man Davis
!err of North Main (in business
latters) and of Greenville Street
in society) left Abbeville Friday s *
3r Washington & Lee University,
here General Pershing is to make
n address this week, and where
'avis is to listen to the address, and
jcidentally find out whether
Washington & Lee is large enough
) hold a man who has been to B.
[. I., in Greenwood (having some
oubts on the latter point after
earing Greenwood people talk)
nd was in a big wreck on the Soulern
Railway early Saturday
lorning.
No, Davis did not cause the
reck, but he helped stop the thirty
ild freight cars which dashed
own an incline and into the ob
irvation car of the train on which
? was riding?he helped, we say,
y holding down one end of the
ext to the last Pullman. When the
irs hit his train he thought that
s father was making a talk at the
oat Office on the merits of the
dison, or that his mother was inliring
of her'husband where he
is spent the evening.
His friends will be glad to know,
>wever, that Davis is safe and
?und, and is now at Lexington,
id that General Pershing will not
i disappointed by his failing to
it there.
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