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jtt =a Hocal ftewe j : IPersonab ; IL. il J. H. Baughman of Bethia was a visitor in town Friday. Mrs. Bob Brown of Sharon was in town Friday shopping. Mrs. J. E. Bricknvan of Baltimore is visiting Mrs. L. W. White. v Miss Mattie' Cochran is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cochran at Watts. ' -* Mrs. T. V. Farrow of Calhoun Falls was shopping in our stores today. A number of visitors are in town today from Anderson to boost cne?r team in the football game. Mrs. J. Andy Bowie left Thursday for Atlanta to visit Mrs. M. J. Martin and also to attend the fair. Rev. M. R. Plaxco is in Anderson attending the meeting of the Second Presbyterv of the A. R. P. church. ;vv . Misses Martha Pressly and Sarah Wifton of Sharon spent several days ' this week with Mrs. Clifton Sprouge. Mrs. L. C. Galloway and Mrs. R. S. Galloway were down from Due West Thursday doing their fall shopping. "* r ? ** i 11 TTT;I J Mr. ana airs. Aioeri misun uuu their nephews, Charles and Joe Finley went over to Atlanta today to sr>end several days and take in the fair. Jrlr. and Sirs. S. T. Beal who have Ucta spending several days in the city with Capt. and Mrs. M. B. Syfan will leave tomorrow for Spartanburg to spend the winter. Rev. G. M. Telford, pastor of Upper Long Cane church and Elder J. C. Thomson of the Abbeville Presbyterian church attended Synod in Greenville this week. Mrs. Brickman was the guest of Mrs. L. W. White and Mrs. C. A. Milford Thursday nigiht. She has been in Baltimore visiting friends and stopped in Abbeville on her way back to Atlanta, wnere sne makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Bonar White. A POPULAR BOY. Julian Ellis is finding out there is a bright side to every phase of life. This Tttle boy suffered a broken leg last week which has put him to bed and deprived him of school and football practice for aboul a month. He is having a good time however, and '.is finding out that he is a popular !?fellow. Julian is a member of the junior Y. P. C. U. of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church and .this week the organizat'on -sent him a lovely basket of fruit as a token of their sorrow at his mishap. . LEAVING ABBEVILLE V Miss Eleanor Schroeder will leave Abbeville tomorrow for Columbia where she will make her home in the future. Mr. J. A. Schroeder, her father, has been in Columbia for some time and Miss Eleanor goes down ahead of the family. Abbeville regrets to lose ' any of her . young girls, but when a pretty, attractive and popular young lady leaves it is cause for genuine sorrow. AT PRESBYTERIAN The Rev. R. C. Reed, D. D., of Columbia ^ill preach in the Presbyterian rhurch Sundav. at which timp there will be communion services. . NOTICE AS TO COURT All business of the Court having been disposed of, there will be no cotirt next week, commencing Monday October 17th, 1921. All Jurors and others interested are hereby notified not to report. Oct. 14, 1921. J. L. Perrin, Clerk. SALES FAIL OFF Fewer Buggies and Wagon* Sold Thi# Year. According to one dealer, the de' mand for buggies and wagons, like , that for phonographs and ukeleles, I has gradually decreased until zero is I in sight. And with the coming of the j [harvesting season business has noti ! picked up in its usual ratio. like:wise the sale of furniture, the deal-' , ers report, is languishing pitiably. ' Of course, the merchants say, j j such a state of affairs is more or LU yc CA^CVWVU ivuvn.^t, I orgy of spending and wild buying in! ,1919. Everybody bought whatever. | they fancied and paid cash, no matj ter what it cost. Now the people are i stocked up on furinture and vehicles. They are trading and repairing old pieces' rather than buying new. '."Back in 1919," said one dealer, in farm vehicles, "I sold about a hundred wagons and seventy-five ' buggies from August to Christmas. Some days I sold six and eight vehicles, and I sold out my stock long enough before the holdiays to rest up for the Santa Claus season. Sev- 1 eral times people would come up and! ask me where they could buy a sec-)1 ond hand Ford, and, of course, I.1 couldn't tell them. Sometimes I would sell them a buggy instead" Contrary to general belief, this ^ man says, the general utility of the j Ford and its large sale did not hurt ( the vehicle business even in the best days that are past. The dealer quoted above says he has not sold more than twenty-five buggies and wagons throughout the entire year. He has on hand a fairly large stock, bought months ago, and he carries on his books accounts that ( have been running, many of them, i - ?-?? -t ni r\ ! since me Dig year, wim uhic , prospect in sight of collecting. " Pessimism doesn't help any," he declares, "but optimism is laughed at now. So it's best to remain open 1 ' to conviction. Neutral, that's me." j' SYNOD SESSIONS BROUGHT TO CLOSE I Presbyterian# Reject Resolution to ( Armament Conference 1 Next Month. I I' !: Greenville, Oct. 14.?The sessions' f . ( } of the Presbyterian Synod of South N Carolina were brought to a close |( j here tonight. ! i At the evening session a resolution J < was introduced calling on the American representatives at the arma-' ment conference to support all meas- j ures looking to world peace. This I ? was debated at length and was finally rejected on two grounds; one,j that the church was averse to parti-j cipating in political questions and j the other that the synod had notr been instructed by the various ( churches of the synod to take any, action in this direction. The resolution was introduced by Dr. S. C. Byrd of Columbia, president of Chicora College for Women and chair-j man of the committee on bills and, overtures. _ J Approval was given to a motion j at the morning session to have every , minister of the synod in the course! ; of a year to preach asermon on the! life and works of the late Rev. H. C. DuBose. All churches are to be; asked to assist in raising the $5,000 necessary to complete the DuBose i memorial chapel in China. The budget for the year 1922-j 1923 was adopted. This is placed at1 $35,600. The synod commended the board of trustees of the Columbia Theolog- j ical seminary for its prompt action j in procuring strong and consecrated I men to fill vacancies on the faculty of the institution. j ARBUCKLE PLEADS NOT GUILTY; TRIAL NOV. 7TH i San Francisco, Oct. 13.?Roscoe C., Arbuckle entered a plea here today of not guilty to the charge of manslaughter filed against him in connection with the death of Miss Viri ginia Rappe. Arbuckle's trial was set for November 7. | Capture* Big Eagle. Greenwood. Oct. 13.?A larere bald j eagle, a bird practically extinct in jthis section, was discovered in a tree : on a plantation near Greenwood a i few days ago by a negro man named Nomo Archie. The negro shot at the i bird. The bird was retrieved and found only slightly hurt. The eagle measured six feet from wing to wing tip. , ^5EJ5l5J5iaJS?5J5fc!ISJ3JSS3r3!EE?S/SJaJ3J^ I SOCIETY J rjjSJSEfSJSJS/SMSfSfSJSJSOISJSISISfSJSJSfS/SISp A BIRTHDAY PARTY. Allen, the young son of Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt ^Hall, celebrated his eleventh birthday last Saturday. He had a fine party with a big cake with eleven candles and as much ice cream and cake as his little guests couici eat. ine Doys piaycu j^aimra r.:.! thoroughly enjoyed the party. A HALF DOZEN. That's how many years old little Evelyn King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. King, was yesterday. And in achieving those six years Evelyn had stored up much knowledge about how to make her young friends have a good time. Putting this knowledge into practice, the forty little guests who assembled to help her celebrate, demonstrated beyond doubt that they enjoyed the birthday cake and the ice cream, as well as the games. Pink and white constituted the color scheme carried out in the decorations and in the cake and candles. THE BOOK CLUB. The regular meeting of the Book PinK woe Violrl wifVi Mrc Lpwis Per rin Wednesday afternoon with a fjood attendance of_ members. The business of the afternoon was the election of new members, Mrs. G. T. Barnes, Mrs. A. J. Derbyshire and Mrs. R. C. Philson being chosen. The new books were received and will circulate from now on. In the election of officers Miss Mamie H'll was chosen president and Mrs. W. E. Johnson, secretary. After the business meeting Mrs. Pen-in served cream and cake. Mrs. Norwood served punch in the sun parlor throughout the afternoon. ELEVENTH BIRTHDAY Tuiss Sara Evans, daughter of Mr. *nd Mrs. S. E. Evans, is entertaining i number pf her young friends this ?f{?moon, the occasion being the relebrat on of her 11th birthday, rhe refreshments were cream and :ake. Guests from out of town for the larty were George and James Nicicles 'A Hodges, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Nickles and family and Miss Pearl Nickles of McCormick. PRESBYTERIANS SELECT CHESTER Greenville, Oct. 13.?The Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina will meet next year at Chester and the annual meeting will open October 3, according to a decision reached at the Synod meeting which is now drawing to a ^close at the First'Presbyterian church in Greenville. The invitation extended by the Chester Chamber of Commerce was accepted without a dissenting vote. The Synod also decided upon a summer conference of religious workers, representing all department " < *- - ?VJ.V ?mi 01 cnurcn acxavrvy, which win mstituted next summer at the Presbyterian College of South Carolina at Clinton. A general superintendent of all Sunday school work within the denomination will be employed, and his duties will consist largely of extension work. The summer conference will have as its purpose the training of religious workers. EURN INTERRUPTS HIKE Man Tramping From Washington to ^^Atlanta Roll* in Fire. On a long tramp from Washington to Atlanta, Henry DeVore, who saysj he is a native of Connecticut, camped last night near the Wilson home at Watts, and while curled about his small fire in the open he drew too near it, his arm being so badly burn-j ud that Dr. J. R. Power ordered him to the hospital where he is being ' eated. He is, he says, an ex-soldier id served eighteen months in France I inding himself out of a job in Washington, he started South by the h ?bo route, on foot, seeking both a job and a warmer climate in which to spend the winter. Last night he built a fire to keep himself warm while he slept, and) while asleep he rolled into the fire. He is occupying a charity ward. MRS. BERGDOLL IN COURT | i Defend* Her Own C*?e and Say* Accounting has Been Made. Philadelphia, Oct. 12.?Mrs. Em-j ma C. Bergdoll appeared today before Judge Dickinson in the United States District Court, and defended her own case in the suit brought by the Alien Property Custodian to have her furnish the Government with a detailed accounting of all property ^ she holds for her son, Grover Cleve- j land Bergdoll, the notorious draft! evader. Mrs. Bergdoll sprang a surprise j j on Vincent A. Carroll, representing:] | the Alien Property Custodian, when JI she declared in her answer to the ( suit that the Government has been' provided with a complete accounting! of Grover's property. The defend-: ant said that information had been I given to a Mr. Williams, an employ-J ee in the custodian's office, on September 13 last. In her answer today, Mrs. Bergdpll reported the property she holds' for her son is valued at $845,966.51. and explained in detail the expenses she has been called upon to bear since Grover Grover became a fugitive for evading service in the ! army. Lawyer's fees alone, she said, I amounted to $36,874. Judge Dickinson announced the case would be taken up with the reg-. wlar equity docket unless Mr. Carrol can show why an earlier hearing should be ordered. H WRECK OF AUTO COSTS TWO LIVES !| ? ii Southern Engine on Way To'I Freight Wreck Collide? With ij Automobile in Union ' ii Union, Oct. 13.?Lawrence J.! Welch, of Herberts and Ervin E. J? Ratchford of Carlisle were killed at j I 1:30 o'clock this^aftemoon when the^ automobile in which they were rid-;, ing was struck 'by a Southern rail- j way locomotive at a grade crossing! one mile below Carlisle. Mr. Wclc1:1 died on the way to the hospital in1 Union. Mr. Ratchford's skull wasj fractured and he lived until 6 o'clock this afternoon. A freight train was derailed at! Herberts just after the train had j crossed Broad river. When the j south-bound passenger train arrived ' in Carlisle, the locomotive was un-| coupled and was driven to Herbert's j to bring back to Carlisle a number i of freight cars. A string of these j cars had been drawn to Carlisle and J the locomotive was making another trip to Herberts when the accident occurred. I Both of the men were prominent in their respective communities. Mr. Welch was about 35 year9 old and is survived by his wife, who was Miss Louise Bates of Carlisle, and a son four years old. He attended A. and E. college at Raleigh. 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