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? ???____?__?? SPARTANBURG LANDLORD REDUCES' HIS RENT % 9 Spartanburg, S. C., Oct'. 19.?A Spartanburg landlord who owns a number of houses and apartments, today notified his tenants of a cut 'in rents amounting to about 15 per cent. ' \ v- Ho said he felt that reitts_ should 9. be reduced along with everything else. The only condition he made with the reduction was that his name should not be used in any publication of the matter. So far as is known here this is the only instance of the Hind on record here. . t ? ' V LOWNDESVILLE S. ^ < >'/ x > N > ^ The advance agent, Mis3 Abbott, of the Ratecliffe Chautauqua is in town for a few days. She is distribu-J ting and posting "advertising matter. 1 The program will be highly enter tanning and instructive. The exercises will be held ih a large tent; it % ui hoped the entertainment will be , attended by children as well as by groWh people. The Chautauqua is qp educational institution, it costs a Considerable amount for the guaran toffs to bring it to the town and it is fentily asked that every body at-1 i, not only the town people bnt the citizens and school children of the surrounding communities. The Chautauqua will come November 2-2-4.is for the up-lift of the ppblic andrnot a commercializing institution. . * ' I-.. K H. G. (Judge) Bone will move i to "Red Top Farm'' as superintend' eat next year. This property is ownpi od by Mr. Jas. L. Baker, of WashJ . iogton, D. C. He has gone to considerable expense is making his ^ " ' 1 -if * A K place one ox tne nnouei ioiuib vi. msbeville County. A new ginnery' for I tike use of the tenant^ has been [ completed, the homes and out-buildings painted white with red roofs? U hence the name. In a short time he % will install a light and water system and top-soil the road, that leads to the main thorough fare. . ; Mr. E. J. Huckabee has soft the farm known as the Huckabee place, . to Mr. Jno. Phillips of Calhoun Falls. x \ Rev. H. G. White has gone to Marion to officiate at the marriage of his niece. ; < Mrs. D. L. Brown of Gaffney is 4-Ka omosf nf daughter. Mrs. Jno. McCalla. I Mrs. M. L> Bell v has gone" to Hartsville, on a visit to her brother, j . Mr. Lee Miller. She ^contemplates moving her family to that town in the near future. Mr. and Mrs. Ardara Preasly have retained to their home in Jackson' ville,Fla. ' Mir. and Mrs. Jno. Drennon have " -returned from Greenville, where they visited Miss unvia, wno is attending the Gi. W. C. Mr. Jas. Baskin of " Anderson, is visiting friends and relatives here. Dtre. J. C. and H. H. Harris of Anderson, were in town this week on professional business. \ Mr. DeWitte L. Barnes has been . quite ill for the past week. Miss Mattie Lee Harper hSs gone to Greenwood to hear Gypsy Smith. Mr. and Mrs. J. C.' Nickles and fafttily were recent visftori at the home of Mr. M. P. McOalla. Ul. T V TT A. XV. 1. j/pnro. a. r. spent, wie weesi \ end Jin Elberton, Ga. Dr. and . Mrs. Curtis > Fennel of Abbeville, have been to see his mother, Mrs. H. C. Fennel, who has beies very much indisposed for some ,, Theron Allen and little folks -ofijKnderson are visitors this week : -at|the home of her parents, Mr. and ; M|s, E. W.. Harper, Sr. ^ / . <_ ifr. Mac Beaty of Monterey is a flre<jnent business visitor to our tOM r * ft* *** Mrs* J- M- Bel1 Monte#^" were visitors at Mrs. Georgia Spiffs last Saturday. ??ttle Mac McCalla is quite ill, his parents have taken him to Green-I j. wood for treatment. ; y-m and Mrs. Sam McAdama _and family were week-end visitors at her Work on the Parsonage is progressing rapidly. The ware house has j becrn. completed. * The South Sea islanders have a curious method of. salutation, which is to fKng a jar of water over the head of a friend. j *" ' % . f , 1 NEW YORKER SAYS HE WAS OUTRAGED NEAR TRENTON, S. C ClaPm* Something Like Ku Klu Klan Tried To Lynch Him.? Tells a Weird Story Philadelphia, Oqt. 21.?A man gii in& the name of P$?er McMahon, c Yonkers, N. Y., with his wrists sea: red by a rope and his back bearin 1 ivioi*Vb nf a whin. Ipft a nortl Mic ?*ui. i?.o v* ?- ?r? ???? ? ? bound Pennsylvania railroad trai here early today and sought the p< lice for medical attention. He saj he was seized and whipped Monda night a few miles outside of Trento S. C., after he attempted to assis Miss Florence Powell, of Aiken, J C., in a settlement which Involve^ division of her father's estate. 1 His underclothing' was stiff wit blood ' and besides lash marks, hi body fend neck bore the marks o ropes with which, he said, his to: mentors had attempted to hang hii Police here are investigating his stor of attempted lynching and mistreal ment. , McMahon who is 35 years old, sai he believed his assailants were adopl ing methods of the Eu Klux Klan. H said he was seized when he }eft th 'train at Trerttpn, S. C., and was dm en into the country in1 an automobile At the point where his mistreatmen occurred, he said, eight men wearim white hoods gathered around mi beat him. "They threw a rope around m; neck, then tried to put the other em over a tree, but it would not reach,1 McMahon said at , the Hdhnnema] I hospital today. "After a severe beat ing the men fold me they had decid ed to let me go." y , "They blindfolded me," McMahoi said, "putting a hood over my hea< exactly like the ones they wore, thei led me to an automobile and *w dfove to a" house where I w'as fed They called a physician to examin my wounds. \ \ "Then they drove me to Denmark S. C. TBey gave' me money to buy m; ticvet to New York, after miking m promise I would not return. All thi way from Denmark to Washingtoi some one came into the car occasion ally and, after looking at me, retire< into another coach. This man acte< as guard to see that I did not leavi the tAin." McMahon said he was too, weak t< leaver.the train at Washington. Hi told the police he was a friend am advisor of Miss !Pow^l. He said hie . ? father lives at ^iken and is presiden of a bank. ^ .? Recently, according to McMahon the father made a division of his pro perty among his children. Florenc Powell's share was $50,000. "I df not. believe 'that sufficient/ he said "and she and I went to.Aiken Jas week to see if we. could not get a bet ter share for her.". ' McMahon described his movement in South Carolina and the feeling, en gendered by the interest_he took i the ease, which resulted in the alleg 1 - v ed mistreatment. i McMahon also said that one of th men who Beat him asked if he wouli sign a paper saying Miss Powell wa incompetent to handle her qwn o her father's affairs. He refused am was beaten with clubs. A roDe wa tied around his neck, he said,'and h was dragged for a long time. , * ' f Augusta, Ga., Oct. 21.?No actio: has been taken by the authorities o Edgefield county or Aiken, so far a could be learned here today, in con nection with the alleged whipping o Peter McMahon, of Yonkers, who ai rived in Philadelphia today and tol the police he had been mistreated b; masked men near Trenton, S. C. Citizens, it is said, . did not den; i that McMahon was ordered to'leave i j . * ' ; Other S ufe of Picture. Yonkers, N. Y., Oet. 21.?Pete McMahon, who reported to the. polic of Philadelphia today that he narrow ly escaped death at the hands of band of masked men near Trentor S. C., has! been absent from his horn here for several months. Yonkers po lice officials, acting at the request o Philadelphia authorities, interviewe Mrs. McMahon and fyer three childrei who live here. Mrs. McMahon sai she had not heard from her husban since he left Yonkera early in th year. McMahon was formerly employe here as a hostler. 1 i Since 1902 there has been ; steady increase of women enterinj the educational profession. PAPER MARKET EASED BY SWEDISH CARGC Z. i: Chicago, Oct. 19.?Arrival o as Swedish newsprint oaper at the rat of. 1000 tons in a month and a stead; increase to an Average of 1500 ton a month has softened the paper mar j- Ket. Tins.was tne message given tni if Inland Daily Pres6 Association at it c- meetings here Tuesday by H. J. Popi g Waterbury, Conn., principal speake i- on the. association's program, n Fifty-five new members were ac >. quired by the association at Tues rs day's meeting.; y . < " ~ ~~ ' n The new name of what was onicc ,t German East Africa has been pro ; visionally fixed by the British co\oa: nial office as Tanganyiki territory. The Danish technological institute h. has opened a special course tc ;3' teach practical methods of burning ,f different fuels in various kinds oi .. shoves with the greatest economy. n ' MA?Tcti?fe cAi r y t ; The State of South Carolina, ' COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE' d , Court o? Common Pleas. ; W. Lr HILL, RAYMOND HILL anc e . othars' . Plaintiff: e aaginst MRS. B. L. MORRISON, H. T. MO$ !. RISON and others, Defendants * By authority of~a Decree of Salt ? by the Court of Common Pleds ] foi d Abbeville County, in said State,' made in the above, stated case, I will offei j for sale, at Public Outcry, on the i premises described, on- Salesday *ii] " November, A. D., 1920, within the lea gal hours of s&le the following dedr cribedland, to wit: All that tract 01 I- parcel of land situate, lying and being in school district -41 in Abbeville ^ County, in the State aforesaid, con? taining about two hundred ^id sixtya four. (264) .Acres, being the same e lands now iiv-possessipn of the widow, I; Mrs* B. L.Morrison. v 'J e The said ' lands witf be subdivided and sold in separate tracts, the plate . for which,will be exhibited on the da> y of sale. e TERMS OF SALE?Cash. Pare chaser to pay for stamps and papers. ? THOS. P. THOMSON, / ' 0#.f .1R Mastpr A. C..' S. C. i - "'* i . I ' is y t , > v. V'- : "; . ' ...' \ !? i / ' ' I v . v / ?/? : .. i i, ? - ' t i ' * H ."< . / s ; Kirs I IN THE NE 8818111 i! ; ( f ; . 8 ' i- .. ;. f . i Df y . , > !* ' wnn T Y \A V? soun ! throi i: - ' * - -'v ; IP f ?? <* " - , ? pay, ' V' The d d ] [Washingtor / *' . 'V ? '* ', < * [wro - H' < * ' - ' : I ' ' ' r ' ' %t ' \ v ' ! ^ ; , ^ , ' r . t S * >. " "" N ; mmmmmLLmmmmm \\ ?> . ? vv y'\ v %i"3i . ' . fit 1 St Lee :: risk:. Goodrich ? -tJV ? i <' . i^ Firestone T. - : ; II 1 - ? . . ") . ? , . -mi ? I United States ^ ' I i V t T*1 . I ' ,i I' H .. /'.I, ,-"; .. ,?-' - : 'j... ,-.- f-;? . i . ' . _ 1 ' i-.'r A ' . ; . 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' .* y ' , . ? iver thought of a few weeks a * ' ' * * *V- J' j in and get yours while th< V-- - " 1 v'' - ' f - . ' ' y.vsre?for the supply is . limit rfes feiBst be disposed of?^ani it,prices on them that^will n 'y-'. '> \ i ove. . V;v'. '' '> {- :?* ' i - , . - . .< ,-v \ . ti- *0 V* r'] > :et Our Prices?Then ' ' ' v ' | j a - * ij ;t **r **j ? F. ARNC .V/; / yy..Pf^ i ?MY- ;' . 7 , ; - : ~ K '-C ' -I ' '' v'V" ' ... -i; ... . . =. r\ v t . , , ' . -t -.V -{;r. * ,... ' ; , . ' - V' V '' V ' ' : e id ea t?. 1 y s more I, yourv f ' . '* '' ' /* : h too; v %, : vherein Cloth .1 I AMD WIMTFR 1 vi a a tt *i x *-?*> : ? it' *J-'. ' , %* > i:vV .* ? . * * ' " } v Iff T i # i up to $75 am . t- m * T * : " [ hat's low. None the ess, you can be a tickler for these 3 Jeas--all- wool, honist workmanship, >2 5 -an^g^f^riEtin. Cirschbaum Clcfthes way?See Our Window GILLIAM Abbeville, i ? * % * r . " t '' ' + f . . ! I ' |> i J : ' 4 ' . * . . ' 4 ' - . X. . . v..-'; -trrl S ? 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