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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-22
Washington Awaits the
German Reply to
Wilson.
CONFLICTING REPORTS
ABOUT GERMAN REPLY
Conflicting Reports-Ofhcials Disin'
clined to Believe Anything Con.
cerning Peace Note Until
Text Arrives.

WdSllllSLOl, wv. 6O.-oo haeahy
conflicting reports about German
reply to President Wilson have come
out of Holland and Switzerland dur
ing the past few days that officials
here are disposed to believe nothing
on the subject until the text of note
is received either through official
channels or from an unquestioned un-
official source.
German government organs an
nounced Wednesday that the reply
had been dispatched, and since then
the newspapers of the border neutrals
have heard almost hourly that the
note was on its way or about to be
sent or would not be sent for several
days. They have given varying ac-
counts of its contents. A circumstan-
tial story of how the reply was held
up at the last moment for further
consideration after stormy meeting
of members of the Berlin government
with the military leaders and sever
eigns Of the German States appeared
to observers here to have the color of
truth, and it is regarded as entirely
possible that the same thing happen
ed again later in the week.
Every version of the probable ma
ture of the reply under consideration
if not adopted indicates that the Ger
mans are preparing to come forward
with what they at least will expect the
world to believe is long step toward
meeting the conditions which Presi-
dent Wilson has said must be met be-
fore there can be thought of an ar
mistice or discussion of peace. What
ever may be the substance of the note
it is believed here it's form will be
designed to make it difficult for Pres
ident Wilson to avoid further ex-
changes.
According to one of the reports to-
day the Germans will agree to evacu-
ate Belgium and to abandon provis-
ionally unrestricted warfare but will
dispute the right of foreign powers
to meddle with German internal af-
fairs. Another says the offer will in
clude immediate suspension of SUBJ
marine warfare, political guarantees
and an armistice, (which the Ameri-
can and German high commands will
arrange on the battlefield" A dis
patch from Madrid saying the Span
ish Government had been informed
that all German submarines had been
ordered to their bases appeared to
support suggestions that abandon
ment of the u-boat campaign has
been determined upon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-22
RIGHT AGAIN.

S. J. Major has written a COM
munication to the Greenwood Index
in which he upholds Senators Benet
and Smith on their vote on the suf-
frage amendment. According to
Mr.. Major no women in South Caro-
lima wants to vote except a few So
ciety women who look like "Maggie"
in "Bringing up Father"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-22
'aIS PICTURE IN THE PAPER"

The moving picture man, as shown
IN Abbeville recently, had terrible
time getting his picture in the pa
per, but it is no trouble to John Cal
vert. He joins the army, trains sew
eral months, goes over to France and
comes back as big as life in Leslie's
as one Of the American doughboys,
many people around town recogniz-
ing him in the issue of two weeks
ago. AS usual he was looking for
something to eat.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-22
HELPING OUT.

Among the women who are helping
out during the epidemic and the gen.
eral shortage of help, Mrs. Frank
Welsh has come to the assistance of
her father, W. D. Barksdale, and is
helping in the delivery of his large
trade. Mrs. Welsh is an expert driv-
er and her three bright children show
willingness to ride all day long.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-22
MIGHTY BLOWS
VERY SUCCESSFUL
Victory Everywhere
!. Crowns the Allied
Arms.
BRITISH EXPECTING
CAPTURE OF GHENT
Foch's Soldiers Advance Thirty Miles
Over Thirty-Six Mile Front-Huns
Flee Into Holland.

Victory crowns the allied arms on
every battle front. Northern Belgium
is being rapidly cleared of the enc
my by British and Belgian forces.
Belgians have occupied Zeebrugge
and Heyst; have crossed the Ghent-
Bruges canal and on the left have
reached the Dutch frontier, where
$1,000 Germans, cut off from their
retreat by the advance northward
from Eechloo, are reported to have
withdrawn into Holland, where they
were interned.
Ghent, it is predicted from British
headquarters, will fall at an early
date, and the Frnech by swift
stroke along an extended line have
put their forces within two miles of
Journal. Thielt is in the hands Of
the French, despite stubborn enemy
resistance, as well as the high ground
round about. ..,.y i
British Retake Solesmes. a..
British troops have crossed the
Selle River, have reconquered Soles-
mes and have had hard fighting not
only in the section around that town
but at st. Python, to the east. Here
the British have captured more than
1000 prisoners. tgt{
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-22
MORE DISEASES.

Diptheria made it's appearance in
Abbeville Sunday when Miss Jense
White, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. T.
G. White, was taken sick. Monday
morning there was a case of scarlet
fever at the home of Mr.. Larkin
Firth in the Abbeville Cotton Mill
village.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-22
GOSSETT GOES TO FRONT.

Mr.. B. B. Gossett of Anderson,
for over a year Fuel Administrator
for the Piedmont District, has sew
cred his connection with this work
and with the different mills of which
he has been president and has enter
ed the army. He gets commission
as Captain and is awaiting orders.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-22
HAROLD LOCKWOOD DEAD.

New York, Oct. 19.-Harold Lock-
wood, motion picture actor, died at
his home here today from Spanish
Influenza. He was 20 years old.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-22
SAY HUNS AGREE
!. EVACUATE BELGIUM
Reports State German
Note Requires Six
Months.
NOTHING OFFICIAL
is GIVEN TO DATE
Claimed 1t Agrees to Suspend Sub
marine Warfare and Offer
"a Guarantees.

: London, Oct. 20.-According to
unofficial reports reaching Amster.
dam, the German reply to President
Wilson was delivered to the Swiss
Government in Berlin Saturday ev-
ening, says an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Amsterdam.
In the note Germany consents to
the evacuation of Belgium, but con-
siders that such a withdrawal will
take several months time.
Germany protests against the
charges Of cruelty in the Presidents
ndte, and says she was forced into
submarine warfare by the Allied
blockade.
The German Government, it is
added, denies responsibility for the
loss of women and children on tor
pedoed passenger ships, but to ad-
vance peace Germany, is prepared
Professionally to stop unrestricted
Submarine warfare. Finally the note
disputes the right Of foreign powers
to 1neddle with German internal af-
fairs and declares Germany should
enjoy the same right of self-determi-
nation as other nations.
:. Paris Oct. 2o.-The German reply
to President Wilson will announce
an immediate suspension Of subma-
rine warfare and will offer political
guarantees, German newspapers say,
according to a Geneva dispatch to
Information.
German papers declare that the
new note will abandon the proposal
for mixed commission to discuss
conditions of an armistice which the
American and German high COM
mands will arrange on the field of
battle"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-10-22
DUE WEST FAIR CALLED OFF.

The Community Fair which was to
have been held at Due West, has
been called off on account of the
prevalence of Influenza in the coun-
try.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

ing from home consumption 100000
600 bushels of wheat for export.
Nothing else counts. Peculiar condi-
tions, pet aversions, indicidual taste,
too much trouble, 1T will cost me
more, my wife won't stand for it,
all of these are excuses not reasons,
and they will not produce single
bushel of wheat.
Talk to your wife about it. You
are not going to be hurt-all cereals
are about equeal in food value. Be
thankful you have any kind. Making
use of them is merely a matter OF
ingenuity with the housekeeper. Any
woman who can put a hairpin to a
dozen uses can find a hundred and
more ways of utilizing the extra
cereals she is called on to buy, and
no woman who is red-blooded Ameri-
can, will ask to have the ratio changed
or consent to be left out of saving
that 1O0,OO0,0OO bushels of wheat.
This is just another little bit of de-
mocracy and hits everybody all down
the line, from the miller to the ulti
mate consumer. If conditions are
such that you cannot go Uncle Sam
$3.50 on this wheat deal write to the
Federal Food Administrator and state
your case.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24
THE GOVERNORS VISIT.

Governor Hugh NJ. Dorsey made a
most pleasing impression on the oc-
casion of his first official visit to
Americas Friday.
His speech was an able presenta-
ton of the facts which impelled the
United States to enter the war, and it
was a ringing denunciation of the pa
clfsts. 1t was really a legal argument,
made as though the governor was
speaking to a. jury He summed up
the facts and the law, and impressed
the audience so that, if a verdict had
been necessary, the entire 1900 peo-
pie present would have found Ger
many guilty in the first degree"
In his association with the citizens
here, the governor gave the impress
ion of being an executive who is more
intent on the states business than on
politics, and it was that fact in par
ticular which won him many new
friends.
There is no doubt of the fact that
Mr. Dorsey is making Georgia re-
markedly efficient governor. He is
devoting every moment of his time, OF
course, to the affairs of state, and he
is looking after his various duties and
the states interests as would the di-
rector of big business institution.
Americas hopes that Governor Dor
sey will be a more frequent visitor
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24
A FRIENDLY TIP.


There should be no profiteering at
tie expense of the aviation camp.
People with rooms to rent, or ac-
commodations to let, should not run
up their charges just because they
can.
Instances of this kind-only few Sc
far, however have been reported and
an impression unfavorable to Ameri.
Gus is likely to be created.
In the name of fairness, and for tie
sake of the good name of Americas,
there should be nothing of this kind
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

entirely comprehend that had legiti-
riate expenses and a decent living for
grower been charged against cotton
as the farmers are now charging it,
something like the prices of this sea-
son would have been realized long be-
fore tn war.
The consuming world will also have
to pay for something better than
decent home and something better
than decent clothing for the cotton
grower and his family It will have
to lay, too, for college training for
his children and for such recreation as
experience has shown to be necessary
to the well-being of every citizen, and
to which every potential citizen is en-
titled. This will have to he paid be-
cause IHe pTOuuCef Will ueudnu IL, ana
because he is now able to enforce his
demands. Must he be denounced sa a
traitor and a profiteer for demanding
those better conditions of living which
cotton has usually brought to the cot
ton merchant, the broker, the spinner
and all others who have to do with it
all down the line? Upon what ground
should these things be denied to him?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24
THE FIFTY-FIFTY PLAN.

The $3.50 combination Gale of flour
with other cereals took the whole
country by surprise. why didn't you
warn us and I'd been fixed" asked one
woman.
Exactly land the whole plan for the
necessary 1OO,OOOOQO bushel wheat re-
serve would have been wrecked.
Let's keep the object of the combina-
ton sales clearly before us. This
regulation, together with all the 9TH
ers that effect the miller, jobber,
manufacturer, baker and restaurants,
is aimed at one end; namely, to bring
about one-third reduction in the
consumption of wheat flour and in
sure the supply that must be ship
ped to the Allies Any let-down in
the program, any concession ''just
once( just for you" defeats the OBJ
ject of the regulations just that much.
Only the indifferent the lazy the
weakened will lie down in the traces
and ask to have the load lightened.
Suppose a Southern farmer who
grows his own corn says that he al
ways eats an equal amount of corn
bread and wheat biscuit, and so ought
to be excused from buying flour on
the $3.50 plan.
Stop and think! Will it add a
pound Of -four to that needed reserve
il his family runs along as usual and
continues to split even on cornbread
: and wheat bread? Would the corn
bread belt, the land of devotion to the
Lost Cause, hold back one grain OF
wheat from the 1O0,0O0,O0O bushels
that 1O0,OOOOO0 Americans have been
asked to save?
Or take the case of the New England
farmer who grows enough corn and
buckwheat to do him." and buys
enough wheat flour for white bread
and pie. If he asked to be excused
from the combination sale of cereals
because he already eats a combination,
how much breadstuff will he send his
boy in France?
Or suppose a farmer in the North
west takes his wheat to the elevator
and exchanges it for 80 days sup
ply of -four and drives off home to
eat white bread for thirty days. and
then takes another 80 days supply of
-four, how many bushels of what has
he contributed to the 100 200, 900 bush
els of wheat that his country calls
for If that farmer wants a clean bill
Of health to certify to the neighbors
his Americanism, he will drive home
with equal weights of white -four and
other cereals and his grocer's sale
slip prove to each and ell that he
will go Uncle Sam $3.50 on any propo-
sition.
Keep your eye on the ball and the
time-and the ball in this case is saw
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24
COST OF COTTON CROP.

w. w. Morrison, cotton expert of
New Orleans, has just written an in
teresting and withal educating article
setting forth some of tn ereasons
Southern farmers fail to realize their
just proportion of the wealth realized
through the sale of cotton. The ar
ticle published in the current issue of
the Manufacturers Record is too
lengthy to permit of reproduction here,
but it is of vital interest to cotton
producers, and should be read by ev-
eryone interested in this create
staple crop of the South.
Cotton has never been charged with
tie same expense involved in it's pro-
duction with the same accuracy that
the expense is charged in manufactur-
ng the raw cotton into cloth, or with
the accuracy which sound business
usage demands. Many million dollars
worth of cattle, sheep, hogs, worm
oats, potatoes and other products
grown upon Southern farms are con-
sumed each year. The consumption
of fully IS per cent of these products
is made necessary by the production
/ of cotton, that being about the excess
of labor required. Yet until the last
few years not dollars worth of these
products were ever charged against
cotton or seriously considered sa a
part of the expense of its production.
Nor is this all Thousands of wom-
en- and children, white and black alike,
have worked in the cotton fields under
the most wretched conditions of pow
| erty. For the better part of a half
century their labor was given abso-
lUtely free to the consumer of went to
swell the profits of the manufactures
This is not what the writer has heard,
but what he has seen. The fact is,
this unhappy history is well known to
every man and woman who has any
thing like an intimate knowledge of
the industrial conditions which pre-
vailed in the South for many years
after the close of the Civil War.
This old-time habit of not strictly
charging cotton with the expenses for
which it was liable has led to some
very great and very obstinate errors
as to what it cost to grow it. It is
natural, therefore, that the prices of
this season should have been regarded
by many as more or less a species
Of extortion. They could not under
stand that prices were not, in fact,
really high, but only appeared to be
SO because cotton for many years had
really been too low. In other words.
lacking an intimate knowledge of con-
ditions in the South. they could not
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

The eating of leftover biscuits on
wAeatless days still lacks formal APP
vx1Jxal OF the food administration, but
mnder certain circumstances it is dis
&nctly good policy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

When some men tell about them
saves we always feel that we're TAX
ing UP the time of somebody who is
really great-and are corresponding
Nv relieved when they finally depart.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

The line of demarkation between
Injuries and necessities is hard to
see-when the necessities insist on
masquerading as Injuries
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

If what Hoover says is true, it won't
a4a long now before Americas house
wives will begin to practice UP on old
fashioned corn-pone three times a
day.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

MOI every man who buyeth himself
n "jitney bus" will get rich while
ake aviation camp is here, but many of
asIsem will
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

B correspondent asks an exchange
II n Is unlawful to kill ducks and
geese ina the spring" Well if your
zgsefghbOrs fowls get into the source of
-stE7F water supply, we don't blame you
Ssr protecting yourself
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

English army officials advised en-
! Eisfed men to marry while at home on
Gen-day furloughs. Probably he dldn't
think the second lieutenants needed
ssuch urging.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

Red-headed women formerly fur
Riz5led photographers with a fertile
field of thought, but nowadays the
ssznen change the color of their hair
axe often it's useless to poke fun al
shy one shade
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

A neighbor asks if it is wrong to
feed cDrnbread to chickens. We don't
see any reason why the girls should
DE exempted any more than the rest of
humanity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

It's very unusual trouble that
most of us can't stand cheerfully-if
1t only belongs to the other fellow.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

Many a man who writes snappy
paragraphs about short skirts is kept
busy explaining they are meant only
in jest
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

An Alabama man who killed his
uaosher-in-law along with several
eneher people recently has just been
tz8zElared insane. It is now said in JUS
9Ihcation of his act that his wife's
Es0gher had resided in his home con-
tlnnB1usly during three years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

whenever a paragrapher keeps
writing about alimony payments, it is
.szuTe 10 assert he is still living with
HIS first wife, or is crusty old bach
.zHsT who has never found a woman
who would have him.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

There may be few things less
4salafable than one of these fifty-ffty
Maff1es the day after baking, but we
don't believe it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

Along with the editors railroad
pass. the swagger stick of the second
Mentenant appears to have sunk into
Ennocuous deseutude.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24
GEOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING

When you take time by the fore
lock" be sure it is your own time
YeC're taking.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24
WASHINGTON CAMP, No. IA,
2. @. s. OF A.

Meets every first and third Monday
nights in P. o. S. of A. Hall, No. 21S
Lamar street. Ali members in good
t,Slding invited to attend Beneficiary
certificates from $4,000 to 100000
issued to members of this camp.
r. E. CASTLEBERRY, President.
o. D. REESEf Recd'g. Secy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

The Kaiser makes more promises
chan pie-crusts to be broken these
>gatless days in Germany.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

Occasionally, the ''hit dog" tries
biting before he bowls.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-24

rnerlcus, Georgia, February "a, 1918.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13
French Drink little water.

Frenchnen do not drink much water
clear, plain. uneooked and uncom-
biaed water, says the Youths Com
panion. In the French villages where
United States troops are CHARTERED
every nrecaution Is taken TO safeguard
the troops from drinking from unsafe
Or dubious wells. II the water Is un.
der suspicion, II may not be used until
after ii has been boiled.
The conservative older villagers
peasants who sco-n hygienic innova-
tlrns think the ways IT their
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1918-12-13

room tastefully furnished aud felt a
construction of Che muscles of his
throat when he recognized his own
portrait hanging over the mantelpiece-
There was light step behind him
and he turned to find Eve standing
there, regarding him with shining eyes.
"Oh, daddyS you have Gomez" she
cried a little brokenly.
He nodded and held out his arms.
Eve came into them like weary
bird to Its nest. II have needed you
So" she murmured. Il have missed
your
Jenner thrilled strangely. mot
when you had your husband" muir
INJURED Jenner jealousy,
"Ah, but you are my dear father y
protested Eve happily; "he might try
but he could never be that, you
known
"And you are glad to see me-" asked
Hiram just for the pleasure Of hearing
her answer.
A little later he expressed his sur
prise at finding her living so comfort
ably.
II saw your husband-George--
driving a trolley car yesterday-and I
thought you must be In need-in great
want" he explained. II couldn't bear
the thought-and so / concluded that
If you could forgive a hard-hearted old
man | would come and spend Christ.
mas with you-and l brought my din
ner along!"
Eve laughed and cried all at once
and babe the maid bring in the ham,
per. ard then she laughed and cried
over the contents.
Then George Lane came Inland HI
ram was somewhat surprised to find
that his son-in-law was not wearing
the uniform of the trolley company |;
he was neatly, nay extensively at
tired, and it took the combined efforts
of the young couple to convince Hiram
Jenner that the young inventor was on
the road to prosperity; that his pres
ence on the trolley car was merely an
incident in the trying out of new
brake of which he was the inventor
and by which he expected to make a
heap of money.
"And $3.50 am not needed after
all" smiled Hiram whimsicaIly.
"Gh. father." they cried in unison
and he was convinced.
Then Eve smiled at George and
nodded and ran out of the room and
presently she returned with an odd
looking bundle Of white lawn and lace
wrapped in a white woolly blanket.
This Is a Christmas gift for you.
daddy" cried Eve with happy tears
running down her cheeks.
For mef" gasped Hiram Jenner.
putting up his eyeglasses. "lyhat Is
itfr
ats a acknowledgements
Ever cried George Lane quietly.
And so they placed Hiram Jennel :,
Christmas gift In his trembling arms
and his meeting with Ewes daughter
was baptized with his slow tears-but
they we're tears Of gratitude because
God had been good to a hard-hearted
old man and permitted him to forgive
q wroag-and TO receive greater re-
ward than he had dared dream.
And 50 Hiram Jenner has another
Eve to worship and he calls little Eve
his Christmas baby.