The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-04-11
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
DUE WEST. =
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Due west, ApTu S.-1He AHIei-
Collegiate Debating League of Up
per South Carolina was held in the
Erskine auditorium on the evening
of Apral 6, 1917. Erskine against
Furman. The following program
was followed:
Invocation, by DR.. J. I. Mccain,
of Due West.
Welcome Address -Morte McDan-
iel.
Query: Resolved, that a Nation
al Board of Arbitration should be
established, with compulsive powers,
to settle disputes between capital
and labor.
C. M. Boyd,-Affirmative, (Ers-
kine.)
M. M. ]. Hewell-Negative (Fur-
man,
R. H. Mcdonald Affirmative
(Erskine.)
w. L. Coker-Negative (Furman)
Marshals, Chief. L. Pressly.
Assistants-F. F. Ballard, S. G..
Brice and w. L. Haigler.
Each side of the question was well
represented and the arguments on
both sides were well brought out.
The judges, however, rendered their
decision in favor of the negative.
There was a good audience present
and the occasion was thoroughly en-
joyed by all.
Rev. Spences, of Columbia, spent
Friday night in Due West, also Mr..
j. B. Greene of Greenwood.
Misses Eleanor Pressly, Martha
Moffatt and Alberta Montgomery,
who are teaching in Anderson coun-
ty, came home Friday and remained
over Sabbath with home folks.
Miss Agnes L. Devlin returned
last week from an extended visit to
Sanford, Fla, and Florence, S. c.,
where she has been the guest of her
sisters.
We regret to say that Mr.. II. M.
Young has been confined to his room
for two weeks with lumbago. We are
glad to say he is improving.
Rev. and Mrs. E. N. Orr of Den
yer, Colo., and children, are visiting
Mrs. Jennie Boyce. Mr.. Orr is here
for a period of rest.
Miss Ida Davis, the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Davis, of Due
West, and Mr.. johnson, of Green
wood, were married in Greenwood
last Monday evening.
Prof. Tyson, superintendent of
the Due West High school, expects
to study in Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity the coming year.
Mrs. John Magill attended the de-
dication of the Greenwood A. R. P.
church. She has a daughter located
in Greenwood.
Rev. J. P. Pressly was in Green
vile last week to see Mrs. M. A..
Brownlee, who continues in criti-
cal condition.
Mr.. w. L. Smith of North Caro-
lima, was in town a few dyas of last
week to see his daughter at the Wo-
mans College.
Mrs. Chapman and children of
Laurens county, have been visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Markham.
Mrs. Jennie McGee Wakefield is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John McGee.
Mr.. M. E. White of Chester, was
a visitor in town for a few days. of
last week.
Mrs. Nettie Bonner has returned
from Greenville, where she had her
eyes treated.
Mrs. J. B. Pressly is in the hospi-
tai at Anderson under the treatment
of DR.. J. R. Young.
A recital by the Juniors of the
music department of the Woman's
College, will be given in Memorial
Hall Monday evening, at 8 o'clock.
Rev. N. E. Smith of Barlow, Fla,
will conduct the spring meeting for
Rev. J. P. Pressly. The meeting
will embrace the third Sabbath of
April.
DR.. J. I. Mccain lectured at the
A. R. P. church last Sabbath night.
The Y. M. C. A. of Erskine college,
had asked DR.. Mccain to deliver his
lecture on "The Loneliness of
Christ" and also asked that it take
the place of the regular service, so
that the public might have the op-
portunity of hearing it. All who
were Driyileped to hear the lecture.