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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-02
ARE YOU oUALIFIED7

Not every one is really qualified
for membership in the D. O.. K. K.
In order to obtain the proper
moral and mental balance to be-
come a Dokey, you should ask your
self the following questions, and It
you can answer twenty-five per cent
of them properly, get an application
and 20 with the first caravan that
starts across the desert, for you will
be prepared to give satisfactory
answers to the remaining seventy
five per cent. after you have reach
ed the first oasis.
1. Do believe thoroughly in the
of the Order of Knights
of Pythias? ;
2. Have I ever done anything to
practically demonstrate those prin-
clpies?
8. Do I ever intend to?
4. Do I believe in One God, One
Country and One Wife?
5. Do my sympathies 60 out to
the under dog, or to the one who
bites and then runs away?
6. Can take a joke as well as
give one?
z. Do ever think that a poor
devil who is "down and out" might
once have been as good man as
am and possibly could be again?
8. Do I wait until a man is dead
before tell of his virtues and good
deeds, or do I sometimes show my
while he is here to
know it?
9. Do I respect the virtue of a
good woman, or do try to besmirch
her character by believing all Of the
idle gossip which I hear about her,
adding little more to it?
10. Am I a four-fusher or am
a thoroughbred?
Remember, if you can answer on
ly twenty-five per cent. of these
questions now, you can answer the
rest after you have crossed the hot
sands of the desert.
Our live secretary says:
"The mission of the Dokeys
Is to fill the world with joy,
Make the tired and weary worker
As light hearted as boy.
-SARUK.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-02
CLERK ALL RUNDOWN
Restored To Health By Vinol

Shelbyville, Ind.-T am a clerk in .
hotel and was all run down, no energy,
my blood was poor and my face covered
with pimples. I got so weak had to
put up an awful fight to keep at work.
After taking many other remedies with.
out benefit, Vinol has restored my health
and strength. h."-RoY F. BRD.
For all rundown, weak, nervous
conditions, nothing equals Vinol, which
is q combination of the most success
full tonics known. Try it on our guar
antee.
P. B. Speed, Druggist, Abbeville, 8
C. Also at the leading drug store
in all South Carolina towns.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-02
OFFICERS RESERVE CORPS.

Albert Morse, Carol Swetenberg,
Leslie Mcmillan and Allen King
went to Greenwood Monday for ex-
animation to enter the Training
Camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, which
will open May 9Th. They are anx-
ious to join the Officers Reserve
Corps, and now are waiting to hear
if thew are accented.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-02
NoTICE!

Notice is hereby given that on and
after May Is, 1917, the DOG IL
CENSE will be $1.50.
T. G. PERRIN, City Clerk.
Abbeville, 8. c., May 1st, 1917.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-02

If men be good and true, they
are welcome to our great circle Of
Brotherhood.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
HOW YOU'LL BE
 CALLED TO SERVE
 FOR UNCLE SAM

( Every registered person will be j. drawn. The persons VIII be call-' od to fhe co1crs in the order of the drawing, until sufficient nurnher has been called
 Every district vsill be asked to furunish for examination 200 per cent. of its allotment on the theory that one-han of the numbers will be exempted. Bridgeport's allot- naent is @,126. Therefore, 4,2S2 Bridgeporters will be called on to present themselves for examfna- ton.
 First will be drawn a set of numbers from o to 10 inclusive, and will be recorded in the order of their drawing.
 Then will be drawn a set of numbers to 1000 inclusive.
 As each of the Ito 1000 set is drawn it will be matched against the first set, so that with the draw inr of each number, the key numbers of eleven persons will be obtained.
 For instance, the drawing in the O-1O set results aS 1oaAOWS' "' A' 1' 6, 2, o, g, 10, 6. 2, 5.
 Then the first number drawn in the 1-to-i 900 set is 456.
 This means that the number drawn will be recorded as s,456, 1,45e, 4,456, 6,456, 7,456, 456, g. 45s, 1o,4Se, s,45e, 2,456, 5,4S6.
 The smallest number Of resis- trants in any district is 185. The largest is over 10000.
 When any number overi the highest key-number in any dis trict is drawn, it will not affect that particular district. For instance, if 10,24S is drawn, it will not af- feet Bridgeport districts for there is no number so high in any of the local districts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
BOARDS CETT TING READY
 TO BEGIN WORK
Busy Selecting Quarters for
 Examination of Exemp- tion Claimants.

With the drawing of draft num- bers only a day off, the Bridgeport exemption boards are preparing to start their work as soon as the order in which the numbers were drawn are announced.
 For the purpose of getting to- gether and following along definite lines, the board viii hold weekly meetings. The first was held yester- day afternoon at the University club. Hereafter the meetings Will be held at 12:15 Wednesdays at the same place.
 Exemption board members want it distinctly understood that these are not public meetings and that they are not to be appealed to at any of these sessions to hear any kind of claims.
 hese must be made by individuals at the proper time and place. to be announced for each board later. Pos sibly Division 4 will select school in some convenient place in either the Eighth or Ninth voting districts and it is possible that the First dis trict board may elect to use the coun- ell chamber at city hall. These an nouncements will be made definite to- morrow whom the boards now investi- gating places have decided whers
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
METHOD ADOPTED
 FOR ARMY DRAFT

General Crowder announces also that local boards will be instructed to call 200 per cent of their quota at the first call to provide for probable ex- emptions. That means that 1,374.000 men will be notified to appear for ex- animation within the next few days If more are necessary they will be called by the local boards in the or der provided for in the drawing
 In some district the 100 per cent. allowance for exemption may be too large and in others too small, but the local boards will be instructed in every case to continue calling for men until the district quota is filled. Each state governor is allotfng to his dis trfcts their respective portions of the states quota.
 In each of the 4.557 exemption dis trfcts among which the ten million registration cards have been divided, the cards have been given s4fial num- bers. The number of registrants in each district varies from about 1S5 in the sma1leststo more than 10, 900 in the largest, so that the serial num- bers to be dealt with in the drawing range from one to between nine and ten thousand.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
Judge Pullman Not
 to Blame In Death
 of Howard Wheeler

Judge John, s. Pullman was freed from blame for the death of Howard c. Wheeler, according to finding given out today by Coroner Phelan- The coroner finds there was no crim- inal act on the part of Judge Pull man and says death was accidental.
 The testimony at the inquest show ed that Judge Pullman's automobile was proceeding east on Fairfield ave- nue near OrIand street when Wheeler was struck. There was another car a short distance ahead and when this passed, Wheeler started to cross the street without seeing the Pullman car Judge Pullman said he did not see the man until he was directly in front of the machine and didn't even have time to sound the horn
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19

Petroerad, July 19.-OWing to re- ports of an intended attack on the Tauride palace for the purpose of ar resting M. SlSobeIeff, minister of labor: M. Tseretelli, minister of posts and tel egraph; and M. Tchernoff, minister of agriculture, the military authorities sent two light guns thither, which met en route a machine gun regiment. Shots were exchanged and some horses were killed A party of infantry sta tioned at the Champ de Mars. scene of the military reviews, fired on the Cossacks from Pavlovsk.
 The general staff building and win ter palace square are headquarters for the government forces which are bivouacing there and have posted can- non. The general feeling is that the decisive stage between the forces of order and disorder is rapidly ap- preaching.
 At a, joint meeting of the workmen' and soldiers and peasants councils a resolution was adopted in reference to the ministerial crisis to the effect that the departure Of the cadet ministers
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
Foods, Feeds And Fuel Only Named
 In Revised Bill

Washington. July 19-Confinement of government control legislation in the food bill to foods, feeds and fuel. including kerosene and gasolene, waa forecast today when. in what was re- garded as a test vote, the senate re- jected. A to 2S, an amendment by Senator Keenyon of Iawo to extend control to iron ore and it's products hemp. binding twine and farm imple- ments an dtools.
 Preparatory to voting on many amendments several senators formally offered individual amendments te various sections of the bill.
 Senator Gronna introduced one tc increase the proposed minimum guar. anteed price of wheat from $1.75 te $2 a bushel.
 An amendment by Senator Kenyon was to extend government control o, iron ore and it's products. including steel; binding twine. farm imple ments and tools.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19

Washington July Ae-Ju st how the drawing is to be conducted here probably to establish the liability for appearance befor local exemption each of the 100000 istered disclosed today for the first time by the provost erals office.
 There will be two drawings one of numbers from one 900 and another of from cipher to 1O master key by which the thousand numbers drawn will reach every in every district E*
 There are 4557 exemption districts with average of about 5000 regstrants in each The largest has then 10000 registered and the smallest only about 1855 district has been given serial his card in red ink.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
.FRANCO-BRITISH FRONT TRENCHES RE-ESTABLISHED Ground Lost Early Part of the Week Is
 Regained. LOSSES TO GERMANS
 MOUNTING HIGHER Counter Attacks by Picked German Troops
 Fail.

London, July 19-s.As a result of the recent fighting east of Monchys 1e Preux the advanced posts from which our troops were compelled to fall back by the enemy's attack on July. il have now been re-established," says today's official statement
 Enemy raiding parties were re- pu1sedS last night west of Cherisy be- fore reaching our trenches. We made successful raids north and east of Ypres and secured prisoners. A few other prisoners were captured by us in an unsuccessful hostile attack on one of our advanced posts east of Costtaverne.
 There was considerable artillery activity on both sides in the night
 Paris, July 19-The Germans at tackled last night on a front of 800 metres south of St. Quentin. The war office announces that the enemy gain ed a footing in the French first line but was expelled from the greater part of these positions by a counter at tack. A Gernaau attempt to regain ground captured by the French near Avocouty wood, on the verdun front, was defeated.
 The statement follows:
 Our artillery and the enemy's were active over the whole front. There was especially violent firing between the Somme and the Aisne in the reg ion of Vauclerc and Craonne and on the left band of the Mouse. South of St. Quentin the Germans, after a vio- lent bombardment, delivered an at tack at about g o'clock yesterday evening. on front of 800 metres east of Gauchy. against the hillock of the Mill of All Winds. The enemy sue ceeded in gaining "a footing in our first trench line, but was driven out of the greater part of the occupied positions by a counter attack.
 After very intense bombardmeni Vast night the Germans made coun- ter attack on our new positions al Avocourt wood but were checked by our fire before they were able to reach our lines.
 Attacks on our trenches al Pantheon, southeast of Sapigneul and Tn the region of Douamont' were re. pulsed completely. One of our de. tachments in an operation east oi 'Badonviller succeeded in inflictins serious losses on the enemy and 1T taking prisoners i
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
DELEGATION OF
 UNION MEN GO
 TO WASHINGTON
Strike Situation Here To Be Taken Up With Depart
 ment of Justice.

President w. w. Br1tton and Vice President George O'Leary. of the Met al Polishers, Buffers. Brass & Silver Platers union. and Benjamin Donaldr son, a member of the local union com mittee, went to Washington at mid- night last night
 It is understood this delegation will call on the department of justice and Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and lay before them the facts compiled at a meeting here last night when the rep resentatives of the strikers went into grievances and occurrences of the last year or so at the Remington Arms Co.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
''KlL TIES BRA PIPER
 IS PInCHED

Piper ~Jinmy'' Cameron. formerly of the s'Kilties' band, Bridgeport, and an employs of the Mitchell Dairy | Co. in this city until according to the police, he abandoned his wife and child and left for parts unknown, is under military arrest in New Bruns- wick following a series of sensational episodes In Boston. He Is accused t by. May c. Cameron of non-support and if statements to the effect that 1 he was married in Boston to a prom nert woman are proved he may stand under the more serious charge of bigamy.
 r. The Boston police have learned 1 that Cameron has been placed under arrest in Fsedericton, N. B.. on tele- phonsd orders from Capt. Rand Mo- Nally of Boston. when Mrs. May c. Cameron of Bridgeport claimed to be his wife.
 She and her child appeared before Capt McNally yesterday and upon York, in whose Canadian Detachment Cameron enlisted, he was placed uf1- der military arrest
 Accordfng to reports in Boston where 1t seems Cameron cut wide
 
 HIS prominence in type came first ,when he picked hjs Hub bride, Miss Beatrice Caswell of 710 Walk Hill street, Mattapan. Then came the sudden death of the pastor who mar 'rfed them, within an hour after the ceremony in the First Presbyterian church, the Rev. w. H. Tufts. Next, the pipes that Jimmy played in the 'lseKfltie'' band were the ones selected flor presentation by Colonel Guthrie to Mayor Curley at the latter's we'd ding anniversary just passed.
 And then Jimmy and his Boston bride dwelt in marble halls For awhile, for the bridal suite at the Ho- tel Lenor was turned over to them after the nuptial luncheon at which the Scotch Canadian officers, with Colonel Guthrie's wife and Riddles. !" attended with military pomp and dignity.
 The whole big bagpiping band play. ed its best at the piper's marriage festivities. There were skirts and pfbrochs. and Cock O the North" and March of the .MacLeans." and then Sweet Maid O Glendower," and everything else the rollicking musi. clans could think up for the occa- sion.
 It was only week or so ago thai Jimmy Cameron took his Boston bride up north, to Fredericton with him. She was reported there last night by officers at the far end of the telephone line.
 Captain Rand-McNalfy said last night that the 'Kilties'' would afford every facility to the authorities here and bring the piper back to Boston if he was wanted. "If Caueron ii accused through the law" the cap tain stated, wen be only too glad to have him here for questioning o1 trial. If he dcesn't match up as 2 '.Kiltier in honesty of manhood. thu battalion won't have anything to de with htn..
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19

For districts with not more than 1000 registrants the drawing of 1.oaAs will fix definitely the place on each districts list the name of each man. Where a district has more than ], ,000 the master key will have to be ap- piled, thus:
 If, No. 893 should be the first num- Der drawn. it would represent 8ss In districfs with thar many men and lesS than l, 1,000; 1t VI U represent S9s and 1.SsS in sSistsss ss ttsfeh more than L. 900 and less than 2 ,o0o;. and so on The master key will establish the tr- der in which the ss9S added to 1000, 2,000. and so on up to the largest number of thousands in the district shall be placed on the local lists when the number s9S is drawn.
 Out of the 10000, 900 registered, 6S7. .000sa are wanted now for the war army. As it is estimated that 50 per cent of the men called before the' boards will be exempted, each board will be directed to call double tha number of its quota for examination, in the order their numbers appear on the district list after the drawing.
 Originally the master key numbers were fixed at from cipher to nine, on the assumption that the largest dis trict in the country would have less than 0,000 men. Today a district in Detroit reported more than 10,o0ee registrants, making it necessary to have the key numbers run from ctphef to 10.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
Especial to The Farmerl

Richmond, Va, July i9- The mystery of the truckload of ammunition bound from Bridgeport to Newport News, Va, which was seized by fed eraI officials, has been solved and the. three Bridgeport men who were held, have been re- leased.
 Announcement has been made by Capt. A1exander Forward, secretary to Gov Stuart. that investigation showed the shipment was a perfectly legitiate one. The shells were sent by automobile because it was quicker to deliver them hy this means.
 The seizure was made at Lakeside, seven miles north of Richmond. The men in charge of the Shipment, who described thcmselves as James Rick ard. z5 years old: Waiter Luckett
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
CANNON AND TROOPS GUARDING
 HEADQUARTERS OF GOVERNMENT

Icannotsbe made the pretext for deprtv- ing the government of the support oi the revolutionary dem ocracys On the other hand, the resignation of the ca dets makes 1t imperative for democ- racy to redetermine its attitude re- garding the organization of power. Therefore general assem- bay councils of workmen and soldiers and peasants must be convoked and such assembly will meet in a fortnight to discuss the organization which is to succeed the cadet ministers. Meantime all power must be concentrated in the present government, which must act in con- fornity with the decisions reached at the last general congress.
 Petrograd, July 1s.-The govern
 ment controls the city today as com
 pletely as the Bolshike appeared to control it yesterday ,(Tuesday). London, July N1s-A Reuter- dis
 patch from Petrograd says the mum
 Der of killed or wounded in the two days of disorder there is estimated at
 about 500.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
REACTIONARY DESTRUCTION OF
 REVOLUTIONISTS WAS FORSEEN

Stockholm, July 19-Monday's events in Petrograd and the extent of armed disaffection were forecast near ly month ago by M. Pereveizeff, Rus sian minister of justice. In an in- terview with a correspondent of a Stockholm paper, he said:
 T am convinced that the Bolshe- wiki troops will soon carry their ac- tivities to a crisis, compared with which all their previous crimes will have been a mere trif1e. When that day comes, and it will come soon, it
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
America Invited
 to Allies Conference

Washington, July 19.-aThe United States has been official$S invited by the AIlied governments 10 participate in the inter-Allied conference to be held in Paris some time this month, but has decided that for the present it will not be necessary to take part in such meetings not directly affect ing this country's part in the war.
 It was officially explained at the state department that while this course was followed at present it was not to be taken as an indication of a permanent policy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
ANARCHISTS MAY PUT IN
 APPEAL TO SUPREME COURT

Washington, July 1s-Associate Justice Brandeis today granted Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, now serving sentences in federal pen- itentiaries for conspiring to impede the working of the army draft law. permission to appeal their cases to the supreme court from the district court in New York. He also granted such permission to Morris Becker and Louis Kramer. convicted on similar charges. These are the first cases involving the draft law to reach the supreme court.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
Tirpitz Seeks Help
 to Beat Peace Move

Copenhagen, July 19-Admiral Won Tirpitz has telegraphed to Ernest +Bassermann, the National Liberal leader, to lea1< the sanitorium where he is under treatment and assist in the fight against the bloc resolution in the Reichstag. The Won Tirpitz message says:
 No passing food difficulties or war weariness musE be allowed to soften the German peoples determination and render possible a peace which would threaten the future of Germany and it's working classes. The bulk of the National Liberals will pJobably vote against the non-an- nexationist resolution
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19

will be time to make a final reckon Ing with this lawless element. We reckon that the Bolshevikas already have two machine gun regiments of desperate men who sleep with weap- ons beside their beds.''
 Mondays riots, in connection with the resignation of Finance Minister Shingaroff, which is generally con- sidered here to indicate a critical f. nancial situation tn Russia, caused 8 drop in the rouble exchange rate of four points to 69
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
Christianson Held
 For. .Manslaughter
Special to The Farmer.)

Stratford. July 19-Olof Christian son, a real estate operator, of s2 Winter street, Bridgeport. was held in bonds of $2,000 charged with man. slaughter following the fatal injur- ies to an Italian laborer believed to be John Roach of Willard street, Bridgeport, received when he was struck by the former mans automo- bile on Stratford avenue near Avon Park last evening atV9 o'clock. His case was continued unti Monday, July 30, on recommendation of Pros- ecuting Attorney Ivan L. Morehouse pending the finding of Coroner John J. Phelan.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
HEAVY FIGHTING
 ON FRENCH FRONT

Berlin. July 1s, via London-The e capture of French position on front of a kilometre southwest of St. Quen- tin is announced by the war office. Artillery fighting in Flanders con unues.
 Heavy artillery fighting continues On the northern end of the Russo-Ga- lician front near Dvinsk and Smor- gon, the war office reports The capture. of Russians in volhynia, northwest of Lutsk, also is annor,nc- eda
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
Senate Calls For
 Information About
 Ship Board Work

Washington. July 1s-without de- bate the senate adopted today a reso- lution by Senator Shoot requesting the president ot furnish information from the shipIHng board regarding regarding the building contracts let or pending, names of contractors and contract prices. together with other information which will assist the senate in considering requests for further appropriations"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19
RADICAL SOCIALIST LEADER
 LEVINE AN AGENT OF GERMANY

Petrograd, July 1s-A letter from Gen Brussiloff's chief of staff says that Nikolaienine, the radical social ist leader, is an agent of the German general staff. The evidence was traced through the confession of Lieu tenant Ermolenke that he was sent te' the front of the. Sixth Russian army to further propaganda in favor of early peace with Germany.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-19

the provisional government in the eyes of the people by every possible means. Funds were sent through the inter-
 mediary Of an ernploye of the German Tlegation in Stockholm. The alleged chief German agent in Russia is Max
 sta Koslovsky, to whose account 1t is
 said. 100000 roubles are now stand ling. s