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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-05-02

He gives his family everything they
want"
yes. He's one of the few men to
whom the fve-dollar bin they give
their wives to spend doesn't look any
bigger than the five-dollar bill they
toss onto the bar 10 pay for drinks
for the crowd"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-05-02

New York, April 25.-Thousands of
New York's young manhood stormed
the headquarters Of military training
camps association during the day
for enlistment in the Plattsburg train
tng camp. WHICH VIII open May S.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-05-02
Portuguese Cabinet ResIans.

Lisbon, April 23.-The Portuguese
cabinet has resigned, 1t was announced.
because the chamber rejected it's de-
cree instiuting a national economic
council.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-05-02
BERLIN GUSTS U. S. WRITER'S.
Notifies American Correspondents
They Are No longer Wanted

London. April 25.-The German for
eign office. according to a dispatch
from the Exchange Telegraph CORE
spondent at The Hague. has notified
the American correspondents who
have remained in Berlin that their
presence in Germany is no longer de-
sirabIe. The American newspaper
men. it is added, have decided to go
TO Switzerland or Scandinavia.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-05-02
Relnium,s New Governor.

The Hague, April 24.-Gen. Baron
Won Falkenhausen has been appointed
military governor of Belgium by the
kaiser.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-05-02

vivid Imagination is often even
more dangerous than little learn
ing.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-05-02
GREAT SUCCESS FOR
KIDNEY MEDICINE

Your medicine has proved valuable to
my patrons for the past seventeen years
and they always speak words of praise in
behalf of the merits of the preparation.
believe DR.. Kilmer's Swamp Root is a
splendid remedy, for I cannot recall a sin
gle instance where it failed to do all that is
expected of it.
Very truly yours
SMITHS DRUG EMPORIUM.
Succrs. to Smith & Leisenring.
Oct. Z, 1916. Pontiac. Michiean.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-05-02

Miss Frances 8. PanaIl, twenty years
old and a pure-blooded Micmac In
dian, who is probably the first indian
girl TO offer her services to the United
States. She has volunteered with the
Red Cross as nurse at East Lynn,
Mass. Her great uncle, John Logan,
was chief Of the Miemacs and died at
the age of one hundred. Miss Panall
speaks perfect English and was edu-
Gated in St. Mary's convent in Salem,
Mass.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-05-02
PAIN? NOT A BIT!
LIFT YOUR C0RNS
OR CALLUSES OFF
No humbue! Apply few drops
then just lift them away
with fingers.

This new drug is an ether compound
discovered BY q Cincinnati chemist. It
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-05-02
Nlnety-Day Session Bill Killed.


The assembIymen killed the Jensen
resolution for q 90-day session of the
legislature and passed without a word
of debate the Smith-proposed amend
ment to the constitution to allow each
legislature to fix the compensation of
The Schiewitz memorial to congress
asking for a federal investigation of
cold-storage plants was defeated by a
vote of 33 to 40.
The senate killed the Hart bill,
which would require second convic-
ton to secure the revocation of a
saloon license. The bill was opposed
by Senators Bennett and Skogmo.
The senate has received two bills
from Adjutant General Holway, which
will be given careful consideration.
One provides for 81 day compensa-
ton for members of the Wisconsin Ma
tional Guard for 80 days after enlist
ment. The other measure provides aid
for the families of the soldiers.
Federal Highway Bill Passed.
The senate put through, under sus-
pension Of the rules, the federal high
way aid bill for the construction Of
5000 miles of highways in Wisconsin.
The only clause in the bill which was
discussed was the graduated license
fee clause for trucks. All amendments
were rejected and the bill passed In
spite of the warning from Senator
Hanson that the license fee clause of
the bin might be unconstitutional. The
senate also ordered to engrossment the
bin making supreme court judges on
their retirement court commissioners
on half pay.
XIII Amendments TO Constitution.
BY decisive votes the assembly
killed a number of resolutions provid-
ing for amendments TO the state cor
stitutiou. one olIered by Assembly
man randutsch, would limit the seS-
sion e.. the legislature 10 100 days A
second by Assemblyman Donnelly pro
videa for a four-yesr term for all cleo
tive officers A third provided thst
members Of the assembly should be
elected for four-year terms. One-hsf Of
the membership expiring every four
--earS. A fourth provided for election
of governor and lieutenant governor
every four years.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-05-02

Prove What Swsmp-Root Win Do For You
Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co..
Binghamton, N. Y, for a sample size bot
tie. 1t will convince anyone. You will
also receive a booklet of valuable infor-
nation. telling about the kidneys and blad-
der. When writing, be sure and mention
this paper. Regular ffty-cent and one
dollar size bottles for sale at all drug
stores.-Adv.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26

headqucrters.' At Branchvi!le, Cen
orel Kerch~w and General Hampton
parted with General Hagood and my
sell, they, going on the Columbia
road and we on the Augusta road.
After dinner General Hagood and
myself were on the same seat. He
said: "Gary, you are an extraordi-
nary man. This IS another m of
your off-hand moves, or sudden in
SEPARATIONS, if you please, that has
knocked UP in a minute all our plans
in Charleston to run Chamberlain
for Governor with a mixed ticket l
replied that it vas no off-hand move
in regard to the straightout ticket;
that Butler and myself and other
men of Edgefeld and the State had
deliberately and maturely consid-
cred the plan to run a straightout
ticket, but that I had suddenly con-
cluded to run General Hampton for
Governor, and that we would elect
him. When I returned to Edge
field, I related this incident to Cen
eral Butler, and he approved of it,
and said that in his d%eclination he
would nominate Hampton. / thought
it was just the thing, and according
ly did So"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26
OATS AND CLOVER.

"What oat will come nearest to
heading with crimson clover?" None
whatever. Oats will head when the
clover is dead and the seed ripe, and
you a get clean clover seed better
in this way. A correspondent re-
Gently sent me a sample of oats thick,
ly mixed with clean clover seed. He
said that he sowed the clover on the
oats and had a fine growth and
when the oats were harvested the
dead clover was of course cut at the
same time. When the oats were
thresh{d the clover seed were cleaned
at samA time and he found that he
had oats we'll mixed with clover seed
Then With a fine screen it is easy
to sift the clover seed out of the
oats, did the farmer can in this way
easily let his clover seed perfectly
clean.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26
WHY CATTLE JUMP FENCES
Lack of Enough Feed in Pasture De-
velops Habit Which is Hard to
Stop.

Clemson College, S. CA South
Carolina farmer sold recently a very
promising heifer to the butcher be-
cause the animal was everlastingly
jumping the pasture fence into the
neighbors fields. This farmer seer-
ed not to realize at all why his heifer
wasn't satisfied to stay in the pas
ture, only that she naturally had a
mean disposition to bother people.
But it wasn't the nature of the
brute to deliberately jump the fence
There's some other reason-it was
to get something to eat. 1t is known
that that farmers pasture was almost
entirely barren. The heifer had to
do ONE tall jumping or starve.
Poor pastures develop jumping
animals. Don't take the time to
fence in a pasture unless you aim to
make it produce some feed for the
livestock placed therein.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Abbevile.

By virtue of the authority given us
in and by a deed executed by ]. V.
Elgin, on August %, 1917, conveying
to us the premises below described,
in trust to sell the same for the pay
ment of debts, and for other purpos-
es, the undersigned, as trustees, will,
on Thursday, October 18th, 1917, at
ten o'clock A. NJ, in front of the
court house at Abbeville, South Caro-
lima, offer for sale the following de-
scribed premises, to-wit:
ALL that certain lot or parcel Of
land, situate, lying and being in the
city of Abbeville, County of Able
vile and State of South Carolina,
lying on the West side of Main street,
known as the Sign Lot, and having
residence thereon, lately occupied
by j. V. Elgin, bounded North by
lot of Neuffer and McMurray, East
by Main street, South by lot of John
T. Evans and others, and West by
lot of the estate of John A. Harris.
TERMS OF SALE-CASH. The
purchaser to pay for papers.
C. A. NEUFFER,
JOEL S. MORSE,
1864. Trustees.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26
IMMORTAL YOUTH

There is a new medicine on the
market which again gives rise to
hope for immortal youth. W. know
the medicine will do the work be-
cause Hon. John W. Bullock. "for-
merly deputy clerk of court of Green
wood county," as it is said, endorses
it, and to prove that it is a genuine
endorsement he has given the COM
pany which is now offering so much
to mankind a striking likeness of his
Honorable physiognomy.
Honorable Bullock tells the read
ers of several daily papers of all the
engaging and healing qualities of the
new remedy, and to prove that it
will cure anything he says that it
cured him, which is proof to us that
the medicine is right and should be
taken in large and frequent doses.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26
WHY NOT GET THE HIGH.UPS?

Senator LaFollette, the "illustri-
Gus" senator from Wisconsin, has
been preaching his anti-American
doctrine long enough. In n of his
Minnesota speeches he was howled
down for defending the sinking of
the Lusitania and many other Ger
mar outrages. 1t is u opinion
that men who like LaFollette are
holding office given them by the Am
erican people, and who are expect
ed to make laws for our common
good should be the first in patriot
ism. But the pro-German that he
must be, LaFollette can't help but
get out and make speeches for the
Kaiser. He has done all in his power
to block every move made in the Sen
ate for the carrying on of the war,
since war was declared. Theodore
Roosevelt is hitting the nail on the
head when he says LaFollette is
no less than a neo-copperhead.
Such men like the senator from Wis
and his gang of pro-German
preachers should at least be drummed
out of the Offices they hold. 1t is
time that arch-traitors are being
punished for trying to uphold such
uncalled-for acts as attended the
of the Lusitania. This time
of ours, is a critical time, when ev-
erybody should do their bit in trying
to overcome Prussianism and we
think it a good idea if everyone of
the class of LaFollette should be
over the .way-they would
suit the Kaiser better.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26
CHILDREN.
Fifth Grade.)

(Fifth Grade.)
Come to me, o we children!
For 1 hear you at your play,
And the questions that perplexed me
Have vanished quite away.
Ye open the eastern windows,
That look towards the sun,
Where thoughts are singing swallows
And the brooks of morning run.
In your hearts are the birds and the
sunshine,
In your thoughts the brooklet's
flow,
But in mine is the wind of Autumn
And the first fall of the snow.
All! what would the world be to US
If the children we're no more?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before.
What the leaves are to the forest,
With light and air for food,
Ere their sweet and tender juices
Have been hardened into wood
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26

The Abbeville Press and Banner,
excited over a concert given by the
band of one of the Northern regi-
ments passing through Abbeville last
week, says one thousand people were
attracted to the square. Now what
we want to know is how the people of
Donalds, Due West, Mccormick, Troy
Wilmington, Lowndesville and other
neighboring villages heard of this
concert in time to help swell the
crowd that gathered on the square,
Columbia Record.
Come up and We'll call out our
entire population and let you count
for yourself. That is a small crowd
for Abbevile. Most any ordinary day
you can see a thousand people on
the streets.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26

South Carolina is to have another
regiment known as the third regi-
ment, which will have the status of
the National Guard and will include
twelve full companies. This was Sc
cured by Governor Manning through
the Secretary of Wal and is a
great idea. With all the former Ma
tional Guard units of the state
drafted into regular service, South
Carolina had little or no protection
from disturbances that are likely to
arise from time to time. These COM
panies will be gotten up by men in
different sections of the state and
will have the regular equipment of
other soldiers.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26

brother, Ebony" Means, n of the
shrewdest gamblers in the whole
country, CASTOR is himself a pretty
fair n at the cards. 1t was gambling
at a high rate that caused CASTOR the
trouble. He was playing the music,
so to speak at the expense of some
one else, and he probably foresaw
that soon he would be at the end of
his row and then he would have to
account for some of the cash he had
been throwing around in New York
and Chicago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26
MEXICAN WAR VETERAN.

In another column will be found
an account of the death of Mr.. J. j.
Martin, which occurred in Atlanta a
few days ago. Mr.. Martin was a ma
tive of this county. He practiced
law here at one time as a partner of
Hon. VIM. Henry Parker, being
known by an age which has passed
as Jack Martin.
He was among the men who volun-
teered from Abbeville to form a part
of the Palmetto regiment to fight the
Mexicans, and who did not think it
treason to defend American rights
on foreign soil.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26
KEEP LAND AT WORK
DURING WINTER
Practicl Will Help to Maintain Fer
tility of the Soil.

Clemson College, S. Cts the
farmer going to allow his land to lie
bare this winter? Land should mot
remain idle when it is possible to
cover Il with some crop. Manurial
crops should be grown as much as
possible. Just now it is costly to
buy fertilizer, though it will usually
pay to 10 so to apply to crops that
bring good prices or produce more
fertility. Unmarketable stuff should
be returned to the land to help
maintain and increase its fertility.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26

Has your cotton been affected with
Ianthracnose or boil rot this year? If
so, don't plant seed from this cot
ton next year. Instead, obtain
clean seed and plant on d~isease-free
soil.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26
A GOOD A TO LIVE.

If one can get a house to occupy
Abbeville is the best town in the
State in which to make a home
Medium.
Right. The best evidence we can
find for a town. Everybody wants
to live here. It wouldn't be a bad
idea for some one to build a few
houses.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26

More or less manure is wasted on
every farm. Some of it cannot be
saved, yet the farmer should strive
to cut this to a minimum. A good
farmer can get more out Of any
soil than a poor farmer can, but no
mar can raise good crops unless his
soil is fertile or he puts fertility
there. 49,.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26

The Gaffney Ledger came out last
Saturday with "a splendid edition OF
their goth Anniversary and 1ndustri-
al Edition of Cherokee County. Edi-
tor DeCamp and his associates are to
be commended on such an excellent
adition.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26
TO BE EXACT.

Liverpool Post.
::Were you out in all that RAIN"
asked the plain girl.
"No," said her educated friend. 81
was merely in that portion of the
rain that descended in my immedi-
ate vicinity"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26

The Means case seems to be gain
ing more attention and fame as the
days pass. The nerve of CASTOR
Means is one of iron, and like his
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26
IN GEORGIA.

OSIuG VlIhANA ~
Maud Muller on a summers day
Raked the meadow sweet with hay.
Her hair was locked, her hat pulled
down,
OveraIls hid her ankles brown.
The Judge rode by, a judge in truth
Of maiden loneliness and youth.
He drew his bride in the shade
And sternly viewed the Flushing maid
"And who exempted you? Dear me,
A fine young mar like your? said he
Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "Just like the
men,"
The State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-09-26

That to the world are children;
Through them it feels the glow
Of a brighter and SUMMER climate
Than reaches the trunks below.
Come to me, o We children!
And whisper in my a
What the birds and the winds are
singing
In your sunny atmosphere.
Middletown transcript., 1917-03-17
UNjUSTLY SENT TO DEATH
Spanish Tribunals, After His Execu-
ton, concede That Ferrer Was Not
Guilty of Extreme Offense.

Spanish republicans, socialists, an
archists and radicals of all degrees
celebrate January 10 as the birthday
of Francisco Ferrer, who, convicted
Of having incited revolutionary riots
in Barcelona, was executed in 1909.
Ferrer was in many ways a remark
able mana fanatic of unbelief, who
accepted death as bravely as any mar
tyr Of the faith. That he was un-
Justly convicted and executed has
since been decided by Spain's tribunal,
which generally considered the case
months after the death of the victim,
and as gravely handed down a de-
cision that Ferrer was innocent OF
the charges made against him!
Ferrer was born in a village near
Barcelona on January 10, 1859. Early
in life he became a shop boy, and then
n ticket inspector on a Spanish rail-
way. Although he had few education
al advantages, he was naturally a
student, and spent all his spare time
reading and studying scientific and
philosophical works. He early be-
came an opponent of the church and
q republican, and his intellectual abil'
ity won for him a place among the
leaders of the Spanish anti-clericals
and anti-monarchists.
Middletown transcript., 1917-03-17
HEAVY COINAGE DURING YEAR
Mints and Assay Offices Have Been
Busy Dealing With the Amount of
Gold Acquired.

The value of gold acquired by the
government at the mints and assay
offices during the fiscal year 1915
amounted to $5OS, ,OS3, ,262.92, according
TO officials Of the treasury department.
This was a large increase over the
preceding year, and was due, it is
said, principally to the heavy impor-
tations Of foreign bullion and coin.
Gold deposited by the Cuban gov
ernment to be made into Cuban coin
was valued at $1,323 ,291.9S; United
States gold coin received for recoln-
age was valued at 81 .959, ,G95.0.
Silver purchased during the fiscal
wear 1916 totaled 6,545, 1916 zine
ounces, costing $3,34S,642.49, at an av-
erage price of 81 cents per fine ounce.
According to the statistics, the
United States coinage for the same
period amounted to $37, 200 O62.82, Of
which $31,O77, 400 was gold; $685.
$3.50 was silver; $1,79O, ,46S15 was
nickel, and $1,O12,3O317 was bronze.
The estimated stock of domestic coin
in this country at the end of the fiscal
wear was $2,4O3, ,21OO53, Of which ST.
646,O5O15O was gold; $56S, ,270,515 was
silver dollars, and $1SS, $3.50, 800, ,288 was
subsidiary silver coin.
Middletown transcript., 1917-03-17
WAR BREAD IN USE IN ITALY
Experts Pronounce 1t Superior to Prod
ucts of Bakeries Before the Great
Conflict Began.

A war bread of the Italian bakers,
designed primarily to save manual Ia
Dor, uses the wheat without. milling.
AS described, its only popularity OF
appearance is a gray color, and the
product of the municipal bakery at
Bergamo is claimed to be highly pleas
ing in flavor and more nutritious than
flour bread, containing larger proper
ton of mineral salts, lecithin and vege-
table pepsin. The sifted and washed
grain is soaked in warm water for 4S
to 60 hours. The germination-or vital
iZatiOn-thus set up SOftens and modi-
fies chemically, and when this has pro-
ceeded far enough, the grain is fed into
a kneading machine. After triturating
and kneading in this machine, the mass
is allowed to fernent or rise, like other
dough, before placing in the oven. Be
sides the economy in labor there is a
lessening of waste, and the yield of
bread from a 'ivea quantity of grain
is 20 to 30 Per cent or more greater
than that from grain that has been
made into -four. The dark and un-
palatable whOle-grain bread COM
planned of in some parts of Italy is ex-
planned by an agricultural authority as
probably due to inferior wheat or poor
baking.
Middletown transcript., 1917-03-17
STATE AND PENINSULA

State College for Colored Students,
near Dover. will be kept open all sum-
mer, to study agriculture.
HebreW Charity Association, Will
mington, spent $4,000 in caring for the
needy during the past year.
The Delaware Automobile Association
held its annual banquet at Hotel dup ont,
with J H. Nixon as toastms ter.
Georgetown is preparing to spend
$l5,0O for concrete road from the
center Of the town to the DUPONT fsoule-
ward.
Newark Coucil has awarded contract
to Ridpath & Potter to sink an addition.
al artesian well with 500 gallons capacity
a minute.
Seeing MIN in Court at Dover, State
Detective Murphy arrested Charles Bur-
ton, negro, wanted in Kent county on
whisky case Indictment.
Joseph T. Cough, railroad agent at
Bear station for years, succeeds E. W.
Russell, at Pennington. ar Russell
has acted as Pennington agent for 43
years.
The Pusey Jones No. l, the first of a
number of $50 ton schooners being built
by the, Pusey & Jones Company in Will
mington, was launched, with Mrs. Simp-
son as sponsor.
At a regular meeting of the trustees
of Delaware College, held last week,
Melville O. Pence, of Indiana. was
elected assistant State leader of agri-
culture extension at salary of $2500.
Mr.. Pence was formerly located at New
ark as County Agent, but removed to
Danvile, Indiana, where he accepted a
| similar position little over year ago.
1t is estimated that the amount of
money spent for seats from which to
view the inaugural procession at Wash
ington on Monday, aggregated more
| than 5000, 1000 Grandstands accomo-
| dating $4,000 persons were constructed
a oag the line of March, while thou
sands viewed the procession from win
dows, house tops and various other
place; Of vantage.
John S. Mullin, of Wilmington who
recently bought the old city buildings
and then turned the old city hall over to
the Delaware Historical Society, is in
Gignant over the removal from these
bulldings of practically all of the steam
heating plants, radiators, wash-stands,
toilets and other equipment and furnish
ings. Mr.. ulin bought the propern S
at public sale for $l75, $50 and was under
| the impression that the buildings We're
intact as far as the interior fittings were
concerned.