Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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if ^ , 4Xocal flews I ? ci : personals : " ' %= =% V WATCH YOUR LABEL. V vi < ^ th ? . T% I_ k. I V The rress ana manner is % V issued r^rictly on a Cash in V V advance basis. Our lists are V re V corrected the first Saturday in V ar V each month. If your label is V re V marked 'Nov 22' or '11-22' V V it means that your subscrip- V V tion has expired, and that V th V your name will be dropped un- V te: V less you renew your subscrip- V V tion before Saturday, Dec. V. V 16. We make no exceptions V. V to the rule. V fr VVVV^VVVVVVth ar v J. N. Ashley was in town Thursday enjoying the bad weather. Fraser McDill came up from Co- A lumbia today and is visiting his ai home folks. J _____ | D ilr. Max Below of Lowndesville j was a business visitor in town Thurs- i s* I day. Mr. T. Stewart Plowden was over ell from Greenwood Thursday looking after business in a live city. ; H Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Williamson were knocking around in Green-j 31 wood Thursday. to C, Mrs. A. M. Erwin and Miss Eunice Erwin of Antreville spent j Thursday in the city. Mrs. J. W. Martin and Miss | CI Janie Belle Pennel were visitors in ai Greenwood Thursday. T1 Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Huckabee and Mr. Alf Barnes were among the Lowndesville visitors in town today. W Wi Mr. and Mrs. Elbert White and -hi the two children are in Atlanta to- "r day looking at the Christmas toys. * *r T-n j ri ?211 Mr. ana Mrs. rioya craves win Vj go to Donalds Sunday and spend ^ the day with Mrs. Walter Tribble. g( hs Mrs. Mary I. Kennedy was among sc the Abbeville people who went to Atlanta this week to do some Christ-J mas shopping. I , ilr I n( Misses Lora and Nelle Temple of w Level Land were among the young 93 people in town enjoying Christmas shopping Thursday. ? W "I F J ?# TTT _ 11 T M iVir. ana ;uis. n anatc liuuma ate in Greenwood today. Mr. Lomax went over on business and Mrs. Lomax "just went along." Mrs. Ira Sprouse, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cheatham and Mr. and Mrs- ra Robt. McKenzie made an all day w trip to Atlanta this week to look at m Santa Claus. a S. S. W. Brown of Donalds and a handsome young son, were in town today. They made the trip in o TTViwJ flnicViod fhoir Kncin<?cc and tn had started home by ten o'clock. I so r*J' i jSaSSSSSSSSStafeUiMM^ uuttumiuna Aiuun m ji ; i tw i n jii m m' u mun ru ?> m ii i mn n n 11 -11 > 111 WEDDING I Those contemplating t ding Presents will be please< has been greatly reduced ai Silver is now within the rea FLAT SILVER IN THE I II FLANDERS, RICHMOND, TRIANON, Gome in and see our line be | Is s ? J F. E. HARF iMlUIIWiaHlinMI'UHHUlMMmiUillllUllUMIlMUlllMlMIIMIUIIIItMIMIl.'MIIIIIIIIHHIIIIIHMIIIHIHIJHllinillllMll , J. J. Dunn was down from Donds Thursday looking1 after busies around the court house. Mrs. R. B. Cheatham left Thurs- I iy for a visit of several days to 1 t home people in the lower part the county. Auditor Sondley and his son, Mr. levis Sondley, are victims of the u and are at home trying to get all. Mrs. J. A. Grant and Jimmie ickles have returned from Knox - " - *.1 1 lie, Tenn., where tney visixeaj eir aunt, Mrs. A. B. McLain. Mr. and Mrs. Buck King have nted a house in Fort Pickens id are moving in this week to be ady for Santa Claus. Mr. Clyde Fleming, who lives on e Star Route, was in the city yesrday. He will read the Press and inner during the new year. Mrs. Frank Pressley came down om Due West Thursday and spent ie day with Mrs. Maxwell Smith i. id in shopping around the cty. Mrs. Alice Guy and the two boys ouglass and Joe, spent today in tlanta looking at Christmas things id having a good time generally. Misses Elizabeth Jones and Ruth eeks, pretty Anderson College udents, arrived Thursday and ill spend the holidays at home. Mr. Lewis Jackson and family id Mr. Robert Hagen and family ;tended the funeral of Mr| W. A. agen at Level Land today. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Watson were nong those who ibeat the rain to wn today. They came in from alhoun Mills and were the guests : Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cason. Mr. J. A. Nance, who Major heatham says is one of the patrichs of Monterey, was in town lursday and was not enjoying the in a-tall. Mrs. Frank Jones, Mrs. Langdon ilson and Mrs. Oscar Jackson ent over to Greenwood Thursday inting for a doll that would say nama." Dr. J. B. Moseley of Lowndeslle was in the city Thursday onj isiness with Superintendent of j ducation Paul Mann. Dr. Moseley i is always had the interest of the J hools of the county at heart. ? Mr. Parker Ashley was in town om Honea Path Thursday on busijss in the clerk's office connected ith th? settling up of his father's tate, the late Joe M. Ashley, who ed about two weeks ago. Mr. Ashy was accompanied by his friend, r. "Fate" Kerr. DECORATED CAR Sam Shiver, Jr., who is as much ' a sport as his Daddy, has decoded his car in Christmas reathes and hoHy and is giving any of the sub-debs around town1 good time riding. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Born at Abbeville, Dec, 13, 1922 Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ferguson, a n, Thomas LeRoy. inn? nun i iiiiitii in mi inn i iiiiimirnniiniirti?~ | PRESENTS luying Silver for Wedj to know that the price id a handsome piece 01 h . f ten of everyone. 11 ALLOWING DESIGNS? 1( ii MARYLAND (The very newest) LADY BETTY. Fore if is |?irko<l nvcr. tISON, JR. || IflllNllUllliMKMIIItllMllllllltilitMintnillllliMllilMlllltllllltUllllliniHIIIllllllllllNIIIIMIIIIIIllllitf ^fS3J3JS?SISISJ3JSISIS/2J3I3JSEJ3iSMSJSJSJ5f^ 1 SOCiET' I X WINTHROP DAUGHTERS There was a very pleasant meeting of the Winthrop Daughters Wednesday afternoon at fhe home of Mrs. Moore Mars. There was a good attendance and the Daughters spent the time in chatting over the days gone by. Mrs. Mars served sandwicnes and tea. FOR MISS BRADLEY Mrs. J. C. Klugh is entertaining at a tea party tonighti at her home* on Park Circle as a pleasant compliment to Miss Irene Bradley who is to be married tomorrow to Mr. C. A. Gilbert of Parrls Island. Mrs. Klugh is entertaining the young friends of the bride and members of the Bradley family at a five course tea. Miss Bradley and Mr. Gilbert will be married Saturday at high noon at the home of Mrs. Tutt and will leave immediately for Atlanta and Savannah. \ A MASONIC SUPPER The Masons of the city are busy today getting ready for the supper to be given by the members of Clinton Lodge No. 3. The supper .,.,11 i+Vi/-i cfnro VAAm' Will u c glVCil IU fiiv OWA V *VWM? door to Mabry's and will be in charge of the ladies of the Presbyterian church. This supper is an annual affair and Masons are expected from the Lodges of all the adjoining towns. Covers will be laic for one hundred and fifty. This supper will have one or two interesting features in that the Hatch'j Concert Band will furnish music foi the evening and Mrs. MrMurraj will sing and Miss Sarah Boren and Mrs. Floyd Graves will render instrumental selections. CHEERFUL NEWS. Mr. Sam McCuen was a cheerful man this morning in spite of the rain and the predicted snow for Christmas. Mr. McCuen had a whole box of eggs that he proposed to sell at 4b cents a dozen ana xo prove that they are fresh he has six broken ones to show his customers. J. W. VERMILION DEAD Citizen of Donalds, Whose Influence for Good Wat' Beyond Estimate. Donalds, Dec. 14.?Mr. J. W. Vermilion died at his home near Donalds this evening after an illness extending several months. He was a son of William and Harriet Vermilon and the oldest of a family of 18 children, all of whom reached their majority and eight of them survive him.. He was a Mason and Woodman, and a prominent mem ber of the Baptist church He will be sadly missed in this community, as his influence for good was beyond estimate. He left a wife and four children. The funeral wiH be at the Baptist church at Donalds at 2 p. m. today and the interment in the cemetery at the church. BOB WILSON "CHAMPEEN" Bob Wilson is a "champeen" in many lines and Thursday he took the head of the class ag a "cham oeen" hoer raiser. He has raised a fine Berkshire this year until it was ten months old and weighed 50C pounds. He sold it this week to Mr, E. W. Gregory and when it was brought through town Thursday it was the big show on the square foi quite a while. Many people who looked at it had never seen any thing like it before. Bob says that he raised the hog at his some on Cherry street and that it was never in a pen. Bob raised the hog "by hand'* and fed it, he says, every time he went home "even if it was one o'clock at night. In fact the hog is so fat that there "ain't no part fitten to eat 'cept the head," Mr. Gregory will, no doubt, find the hame pretty good eating. MR. O. L. JACKSON, CHURCH ST. HAS A EXIDE BATTERY MADE APRIL 15, 1916, STILL USING IT. EXIDE!?THE LONG LIFE BATTERY?FOR SALE AT CITY GARAGE. HEARS FROM NEW ZEALAND Death of Relative in Far Away Country Miss Hannah Cochran has received from her relatives in New Zealand, a copy of The Ashburton Guardian and The Christchurch Press, containing an announcement of the death of Mrs. Isabella Wilkie on Oct. j 22, 1922, in the 80th year of her ace. Mrs. Wilkie was born in Belfast, Ireland but had lived in Ashburton for forty-seven years. She is spoken of in these papers as a woman who took a keen interest in sports, being a great hunter and a lover of outdoor sports. Mrs. Wilkie's husband was a journalist and has been dead for many years. She is survived by two sons and two daughters. One son, Major Alex H. Wilkie, of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles is the author of the third volume of New Zealand's History of the War. . Mrs. Wilkie was a first cousin of the late Mrs. R. H. Cochran. A SICK BABY. Ben, the little fifteen months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ferguson, is a very sick child at their home on Magazine street. The little fellow had Dr. Hill with him most of the night and is still in a precarious condition. Friends of the parentr. hope i for good news from him soon. MK. btHKAM MILL D1UIV Friends coming in from Sharon bring the news that Mr. Nicholas Schram is still sick at his home in that section. Mr. Schram is well ' known all over the county and everybody hopes for him a quick recovery. i A NEW MAN r Mr. J. M. Strawhorn who lives [ near Due West has come to Abbe. ville and will be with the Rosenberg Mercantile Company. Mr. Strawhorn will be in the grocery store and he invites his friends to look him up when they come to town. | ? AFTER ALL I II Christm 11 [! Our Homei |! 11 Christmas Package! ! j Iates is full. (| Big Supply of the v< I J to the box. : [| ?ou !j ^ S finnrirr n A DTLICIV/T 31 oilvl r m\ 11 ljL-iiYi ?j PHONE SiffiffiffiffiffiKffiifilfiffiifilfi ' * * A Bank Aco The Most Pr AIIV AIAVVI. M, A! A Savings Acc< can make. W that you have i PLANTERS Bi book made out starting a habi with them all You knov account may I and additional often as you li Interest is 2^?GET Plant "Abbev I MASTER'S SALE The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE., Court of Common Pleas. The Farmers Bank of Iva, Plaintil against J. M. Nelson and others, Defendant By authority of a Decree of Sa! by the Court of Common Pleas f< i Vbbeville County, in said Stat made in the above stated case, I wi i fer for sale, at Public Outcry, j Abbeville C. H., S. C., on Salesds in January, A. D. 1923 within tl legal hours of sale the following de i cribed land, to wit: All that tract < 'parcel of land situate, lying and b WE HAVE SOME1 ABOUT OUR ias Stock c OUR L . FRUITS of all kind ETC., is Complete a to none. Let us put you i Fruits for your frien makes a most accepi nade Candies I OUR LINE OF.... 5 ELMER'S Best made jfry best CIGARS in Bo R PRICES ARE RI WW OS. ORDERS DELIVERE IIEICIEIEICLEIELEIELEICLEEJ IJ UIJ1JIJIJIJIJIJIJIJ 8 J!" :? I aunt? actical Present | / 9 * Dunt is the best present yon , rhen you tell your children i deposit for them in the 1; [.. ^NK and give them a pass , in their name, you are t of saving that will stay through life. V - ?T, of course, that a Savings >e started with any amount. j deposits may be made as ke. compounded quarterly. A BOOK TODAY?'=^3 ! f' I ers Bank i ille's Friendly Bank." V ing in Diamond Hill Townshijj, JSHteville County, in the State aloraaaril* containing Forty-two and one-5?ajtk (42%) Acres, more or less, ao& bounded by lands of J. J- HeKoe the South, J. E. Purdy on the West; ' C. H. Hall on the East, tern? tbe same tract conveyed to J. M. ISds* son by C. H. Hall. 6 Terms; of Sale?Cash. Pmrflase )r to pay for stamps and papers. e' THOS. P.. THOMSON > 11 Master A. C. S. 'CI at ty Will Close December 231 ie New York, Dec. 14.?Arniouacfrs ment was made today that the Jfe* Dr York stock exchange would he :1mse ed on December 23. fHING TO TELL 1 kl- r.AA#)e 1 FJL \JIWVK01 ? JNE OF 3 , NUTS, RAISINS, ? nd Quality is Inferior 2 up a nice Basket ? d or sweetheart This || table Christmas gift S ^re The Best * Nut and! Fruit Choco- ? xes?25, SO and 100 { GHT^? S * I NTCK MFROS ? :d promptly. j| ^!sfiiefiaaaahse