Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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y ~x' Xocal I flews 1 : Ipersonals : ' 1 ... Mrs. Joe Hill of Antreville is', shopping in the city today. Mr. Norris Wakefield of Antrc- ( ville is in the city today in business. , ' .. 'J Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Watt of Due, West, were in town Tuesday. , , Henry Stokes, of Antreville, was 1 'here today on business. |] * ---1 ftf rillO Wpst. WAS x utiictiii vx ^?.v ?. v-.f , ' in town today on business. Mr. J. R. Blake of Greenwood, is' c. business visitor in Abbeville today. Miss Elizabeth Peterson of Green-j \ wood spent Tuesday in the city. Mrs. J. H. McCord of Hodges is. shopping in the city today. ^1" un V\?1*T T -M 1 c* I JLUia. i\uucn ui.f 10 #ing relatives in Anderson this week. Miss Louise Fant of Athens, Ga., j is visiting Miss Virginia Leslie, near ^ the city. L Mrs. L. G. Cruse of Charlotte, N. C. is in the city visiting her sister J Mrs. Jas. S. Cochran. M Mrs. J. L. Maxwell and children,^ % / who have been visiting for some,1 time in Abbeville, will return to:3 Augusta today. . ! ^ . . j Miss Lucia Burnett of Green- J 11 !1 wool is spending some time in the > city with her cousins, Misses Mat-Is tie and Helen Eakin. p Miss Mary White is expected to i return this afternoon from a two 1 weeks' visit to her aunt, Mrs. Belle ? .AJaton at York. ja I Kerr Fi I The On< I same' By this1 method eve I j ~~1J | [yj^rja 1 TRUNKS a; i eit/i'JL&s LJh. jfj '-Z&y tf V0T ^ || 'STOVES anoRAN I THE ^^BBBEE6{5Sffil35i5i5ISf5JSI5@fS2(i}(5iSiif5/5 R:v. M. T. Ellis of Doraville, Ga.,! is visiting his brother, R. S. Ellis. T. G. White spent Monday in Greenwood on business. Mabry Cheatham, manager of the Southern Cotton Oil Co., spent Tuesday in Augusta on business. Mrs. R. N. Tiddy and children are visiting Mrs. Fairly Tiddy in Monroe, N. C. Mrs. C. E. Armour leaves tomorrow for Philomath, Ga., where she twill vici'f rolo+ivoc Mr. and Mrs. Otis McMillan of Greenwood spent Tuesday in the city with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gambrell. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Philson and daughters, Adelaide and Josephine, ire visiting Mr. Philson's relatives in Clinton. Mis. Joe T. Hughes and children! left Monday for a visit to Mrs.! I Hughes' parents, Mr. and Mrs J. G.' Hugulet at Hamlet, N. C. j Miss Eleanor Gambrell leaves this week for Kings Mountain where ?hc will spend several weeks visiting rela-J tives. 1 Messrs. Moreland Crymes and De-^ Vore Anderson were over fromj Greenwood Tuesday night making^ the hearts of the young girls glad. c * ___ Mrs. James T. Upchurch and little daughter, Eleanor, have returned to their home in Montgomery, Ala., after a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. 0. Roche. Miss Esther Todd of Simpsonville tfho is to teach a section of the Fourth grade in the city schools lert session was a visitor to the-city yesterday. Mrs. Lizzie Cason and daughter, Vliss Marion, leave today for New fork, where they will take a special course in Columbia University. Uev. and Mrs. J. B. Muse, Miss tfinnie Muse, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith and little son of Greenwood, ind Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Muse of Due .irniture Cc \ e Price Furnitur \ 1 price is an honest va ling marked in p > ie can buy here tomon s than the Drice so aid yesterday. Is and strangers pay price. :ry price is a special pr From the cheapest lat's good to the best vif c 1UI O 111UUVI he Price is as stable 3 the quality. itrons of our store are ledge that our prices ; .dable quality. They that reductions are r possible nor neces IGES HOME OU ONE PRICE FURNJ JSJ3IS}3J3j3J3/S/SI3/SJSMSM3J3M3?3?3JSf3lf3J West spent Tuesday in the city with Mr. and Mrs. Alf Lyon. PRETTY LITTLE VISITORS. Misses Margaret Rasor and Minnette Hanna, of Cross Hill, are pret. ty little visitors of Miss / Elizabeth Beeks on Pinckney street. vTO ATTEND WEDDING Mrs. J. F. Bradley, Mrs. ?W. W. | Bradlcv" Misses Edna Bradlev and j i Ruth Howie leave this afternpon to attend the Bradley?Cox wedding at Troy. SEEING THE CITY I Mrs. W. W. McDill, Mrs. E. L. Reid, little Miss McDill, Mr. Young, Rev. E.B. Kennedy and several oth-, ed well behaved little boys of Due West were in town Monday aixernoon shopping and seeing the city. IN HONOR OF MISS WILKES Mrs. Moore Mars gave a rook party Tuesday night in honor of her! sister, Miss Patty Wilkes of Lau-j rens. There were three tables of j players and a salad course was: served during the evening. ATTEND BAILEY-LINK j WEDDING AT ANDERSON : i Miss Grace Link and Messrs John Lomax and Mark Link today for Anderson to attend the wedding of Miss Annie Bailey and Arthur Link which will be solemnized in that city Fri-; day. > j A DOUBLE WEDDING _____ Mrs. Charles Edwin Todd, of Due West, has issued invitations to the marriage of her two daughters, Miss Ruth to Mr. Lacy Cleveland Buie, and Miss Louise Bebe to Mr. Henry Morgan Gilbert, the double wedding to take place at the Todd home in Due West, Wednesday evening, July, iourteenth at 8:30 o'clock. The Misses Todd are attractive and '.alented Due West young ladies. They are graduates of the colleges at Due West atid for two or three years have been teaching. They have many friends in Abbeville who are interested in their marriage, an<t who wish for "them the best in life." ~ I r < . -ater-S# i 'fi i >mpany e Store ' j J w y ^ mmr-^ i s i/ | k innrMVorl KTT fko ^ ? Ijy LI X\-< are the lowest for jp OII CLaTM '/j ' i 1 1 TFITTERS [TURE STORE I 3f5J3M3I3?SISJSI3J3I3fS?3J3Me f3/3/3/2/5/gS, I! UNDER' i ill I "Wli offic am t vital Stan : ' U: ., cc w I w !' " ii t j , v. ;j: / ROOK PARTY. * ,! - - ? * ??< ni^o/1 Miss Saran besne eiltCi tauiwu about eighteen young people Tuesday evening at a rook party in honor of Miss Mary Fant, of Athens. Cake : and cream was served during the eve-' ning by the hostess. A BRIDAL SHOWER Mrs. W. P. Wham will' entertain Thursday afternoon at her home at a bridal shower in honor of Miss, Leila Wood of Spartanburg, who is 1 visiting her and who is to be married in July to Mr. R. C. Toole, of Campo? bello. ? i lomax?Mclaughlin ; Miss Margaret Lomax, of Abbe-1 viller and Mr. ' Clyde McLaughlin, of Stony Point, N. C., were quietly 1 married at the home of the bride's brother, George W. Lomax, Tuesday i afternoon at four o'clock. Only a few friends and relatives attended the ceremony. The bride was becomingly attired in a dark blue suit with accessories to. match. * Immediately after the ceremopy the young couple left over the Sea-' board for an extended trip North.< On their return they will make their: home in Stony Point. i v FLEMING-STEVENSON. The many friends of- Miss Esther [Fleming of Antreville, were most pleasantly surprised when they learned of her marriage on Tuescay, June 29 1920 to Robert M. Stevenson of t .!?, TVio Vnnrriap-e took t)lace at L.i.D V1VJ? a iiw 0 ^ ,T 4 : at the Presbyterian parsonage of Lowndesville where a few or the most intimate friends and near relatives i cf the young couple had been assem, bled. Rev. H. C. Fennel, pastor of j the bride, performed the ceremony, j The bride was becomingly attired in | in a suit of midnight blue tricotins j with harmonizing accessories. I Miss Fleming, who is a graduate of j Winthrop College, is the tnird daughi ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Fleming of Antreville, and possesses a rare and charming personality. For the past two years she has been the successful I principal of Woodrow graded school in Lee county. Mr. Stevenson is the youngest son cf Supervisor and Mrs. W. A. Stevenson and is a prosperous young business man of Abbeville. After July 10, Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson will be at home to their many friends in their home here. GERMANY 3,000,000 TONS IN ARREARS IN DELIVERY OF. COALk UNDER TREATY Tario, June 28.?Germany is three million tons in arrears of her engagements concerning the dolivery of coal in executioin of the : treaty of Versailles, according to an iterview with Louis Loucheur print ed to day in the Petit Parisiene. Hell says it is necessary to grant a I large amount of coal monthly toll industrial reconstruction. I 5TANDINC ten 1 talk over my affair era," said a patron, "I f< alking with a partner in ly interested as myself, d." nderstanding, mutuality (operation are more ths ords when applied to tKii rhen we say our service ii ) spirit of boastfulness bi ^ri nf tVip trntVi nf fhp sta ou'll quickly discern the NTEREST PAID ON S; > LANT1 B A N . "THE FRIENDLY ABBEVILLE MRS. SARAH E. BURTS Mrs. Sarah E. Burts, relict of. Rev. R. W. Burts, died Sunday afternoon at her home in this county near the Anderson line. Mrs. Burts had been sick for sometime and her. death was not wholly unexpected on account of her, advanced age of 78 yeprs. The deceased was the step mother of Sheriff Burts of Abbeville but had no children of her own. The funeral and interment were held from Broad Mouth Baptist church and were conducted by Rev. E. W. Hiott of Easley. Mrs. Burts was the faithful wife V v. . of a godly ambassador of the King and many of the golden deeds attributed to Rev. Mr. Burts, who died on February 15 last, found their origin in the charitable heart of his helpmeet. MACON BLIND MAN. WHO KILLED WIFE, HELD FOR MURDER 1 Macon, Ga., June 29.?C. G. Crea son, blind organ grinder, a familiar character in Macon for five years, who shot and killed his wife Sunday afternoon, will have to stand trial for murder, following the coroner's inquest. Two witnesses who say they saw the shooting, testified Creason held his wife, who was of small statue, shot her to death and threw her body out a second story window to' the sidewalk. He fired at her body as it lay on the sidewalk, they said. Creason says Dan Mason and Charley Hutchins, the witnesses for the State, have ruined his home and that he was shooting at them and not his wife. Being blind, he said, he could not see his wife when he fired in the direction of .where Security Lei OUR DEI s Your funds are safe resources, strong m stant national super The National Bank < I closely to the bed rc characterize Ameri< financial institutions The continued grov the result of progre service. This service and your account is J. ALLEN SMITH W. M. BARNWELL, LEWIS PERRIN NEIL SWETENBURG NATIONAL BAN* "Abbeville's Stron _____ s with any of your jel somehow that I the business, one as You seem to under1 ' of interests and I in well-sounding ,?(j| 3 bank. s different, it is in at with a convictement. . difference. : WINGS. : > I ;:j| ERC | I K I BANK" ^ I'M the two men were talking. I TV.? KUJ? 1. ' .Jm fc/wij vx mo wuc was aeiiu to . Anderson, S. C., her former home. '':|s8 | Creason's 4 year old son, who hit father says told him Mason and '-<?? Hutchins were in his hoilse, is ' occupying a cell with his father. Crea- 'yS son pleaded with the sheriff until ^||| he consented for the little fellow t? ' ;'j| remain with his father.) ! Creason has been blind for tea / years and only recently he had his ]M eyeballs removed. j NEW ANGLE DEVELOPS ^-4 JS IN EL WELL MYSTERY New York, June 28.?Informs- ^iffa tion that John Browne El well, tor*man and whist expert shot to death In has home here June 11, ni -M slain by a man who believed he had \ been "double crossed" in a $10,009 liquor transaction, was laid before "^$1 the district attorney. Several other ' % persons were involved it was stated. . \jM Elwell, it was said, did not have the -vJf cash to pay for the liquor and gave hj a check, with the stipulation that it be held until he could raise the money to j?ay for it Elwell raised over $9,000 of the amount, and failing to raise the remainder, wae 1 ;ij visited by one of the party furnishing the liquor when the shooting resuited. , ' I Capt. J. L. Perrin, Mrs. W. P. Per- * rin and Miss Mary Perrin are in Bishopville attending the wedding ^ of Miss Mary Perrin, daughter of Tom Perrin, which takes place to| Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Brown "have returned from Brevard, N. C., <| where they went to see to the furnishing of their summer home. ids Itself To ^jjl yOSITORS ,?M guarded /by ample anagement and convision. of Abbeville adheres )ck principles th?.t ca's rr.cst powerful >. rth of this Dank is ssive and efficient _ -X ^ ^ ^^ I is ai yvur Winnietiiu invited. PRESIDENT ' ' VICE PRESIDENT CASHIER ASSISTANT CASHIER r nr a DDn/n f r V ur HDDL V ILLiU. gest Bank"