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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10

CENTRAL EMPIRE HAS ONLY
THE CLASS OF 1920 LEFT
United States Soldiers Sent Abroad
Each Month Equal Half of Re-
cruitment of Huns for Whole
Year Says Late
e. Dispatches.

Washington Sept. T. German
manpower is being rapidly outgrown
by allied arrivals in France.
By spring the American army a.
lone will outnumber the German
forces, according to battle front dis
patches reaching here today.
Americas monthly contingent is
half the entire annual recruitment
of. the Germans, dispatches say.
Between July Is and September
about 80 divisions were used by the
Germans, advices say. Germany has
Amos completely exhausted her
class Of 1919 and has only the class
Of 1920 left. She is postponing
sending this last levy to the front
and instead is cutting down the bat
talon strength to three companies
instead of four.
Both class 1919 and class 1920,
consisting of boys, are underfed, re-
ports Indicate These significant fig
ures, coupled yith state department
Information as to Teuton political
Conditions, spell the end of the Boche
dream of a Germanized world.
y The department significantly ad-
Snitted today that there is more than
|, the usual Teuton propaganda to re-
cent press accounts, which mean
Awed as a whole show possibilities
of a dismemberment of much of the
Central empires.
Polish aspirations; Czecho-Slovak
dreams backed by American recogni-
ton; threats of Bulgarians trouble;
Baden's and Bavaria's discomfort;
Austria's crippled economic situa,
ton all point toward the inevitable
"a crumbling of the Teuton hopes
similar to the dashing of the ambi-
tions of conquest-crazed monarchs
of other centuries.
Government authorities warn that
the United States must not relax its
efforts on the sole thought that the
end is right at hand. 1t takes a
strong punch yet to down the last
of the hungry military monster Ger,
many has reared, they say. But on
the other hand, they do see the
signs of Bolshevism in Germany
murmurings Of discomfort and dis.
satisfaction. All dispatches from
abroad show that the German lead.
ers are striving hard to keep the
people in line and that not the least
of the leaders worries is the enger.
ness with which soldiers digest the
American-Allied truth propaganda.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10
CHIEF JUSTICE GARY SPEAKS.

Saluda County is about to COM
plete new sixty thousand dollar
Court House. The dedicatory exer-
cises are to be held there on Sept.
23rd on the opening day of the
Court of General Sessions. The prin-
cipal address on that occasion will
be delivered by the distinguished
Chief Justice of the State. Hon, Eu-
gene B. Gary.
Saluda is making great prepara-
lions for the occasion, and full
day awaits them, as we'll as day of
enjoyment. !
Chief Justice Gary always has
something worth while to say ..
these occasions, and the public will
await this address with anticipation.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10
COURT ADJOURNED FRIDAY.

After a busy week in session, the
Circuit Court was adjourned Friday
evening by the presiding judge, j.
W. DeVore, and Sheriff Burts there
upon left the Court House and be-
gan to look around for new worlds
tc conquer. The local lawyers tar
ried to give one, long, last, lingering
look at the bar and also departed
from the Court House, where they
had spent such an exciting week
working and tired themselves out,
to take a long vacation on the
square.
The settlement of cases up to
Thursday noon was given in the last
issue of this paper. On that day,
Will Grier, charged with assault and
battery, was convicted of carrying
concealed weapon and sentenced
to thirty days in Jail or the payment
of fine of S25. Nathaniel Gala
han and John Sherard plead guilty
to using an animal without the con-
sent of the owner and were sentenc.
ed to three months in the pen or to
pay $25 fine. Mr.. Geo. Tate does
not see where this is going to do him
any good, however, or his horse eli.
ther. In the case of the State VS.
William Thomson, the jury decided
that the defendant was not guilty OF
assault and battery as charged.
The charge of murder registered
against Alfred Gray was never al.
lowed to be decided by the jury. AT
the conclusion of the States evidence
the court directed the jury to bring
in verdict of not guilty. Gray had
been advised to go into his own
house and defend himself if his enc,
my entered. This he did. The
court held that this was a plain case
of self-defense.
Three cases were disposed of or
Friday. Ike Jones was convicted OF
non-support and sentenced to six
months in Jail or to pay fine OF
| $10O. The court directed that ir
case he paid his wife $500 pei
month, sentence should be suspend
ed. Weston Richie plead guilty tc
house breaking and larceny, twelve
months sentence being imposed up
or him. Finally, W. T. Thrasher
Harriet Moore, and Zach Quinn, de,
PENDANTS in liquor case, were dis
charged upon the jury's verdict o1
not guilty. All business having beer
disposed of, the jurors were dis
charged and the general sessions
were adjourned until October.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10
ALLIES ARE CONTINUALLY
MAKING LONG STRIDES
To Be Examined
Before Local Board
NINETEEN WHITE MEN TO
STAND PHYSICAL EXAMINA.
TION TODAY.

Abbeville is going forward with
its work of swelling Pershing's arm
les in France. The following white
men have been ordered to report to
the Local Board for Abbeville Coun-
ty today at II o'clock and stand the
physical examinations:
William Austin McCurry.
Reuben Baker Haddon.
David Pinkney Grant.
Alvin Dean Nance.
John T. Moore.
Richard Olin Darracott.
Fred Nance
Joe Clarence McDade.
Knox McDill.
Ralph Joseph Tucker.
Wallace Edward Lemon.
George Alexander Ferguson.
Roland Boggs Morrow.
Fred Mason Uldrick.
Albert Henry Kink.
R. C. Self. ~
Elliott G. Stokes.
John Henry Caldwell.
Fred Lee Ferguson.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10
.ABBEVILLE BOYS
GET SCHOLARSHIPS

In the award for scholarships for
Clemson, John Richard Swetenburg.
of the city, and Clarence Crowther,
of Antreville, were given the four
year scholarships, George Cam was
awarded the one year scholarship,
while J. HALLS Williams will take
the one year agricultural course
These young men will leave in few
days to take up their studies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10
NEW PR|OR|T|ES
LIST MADE PUBLIC
=.
Master Key Governing
Issuance of Priority
Certificates.
ANNOUNCEMENT BY
CHAIRMAN BARUCH
Announces New Priority List Of In
dustries and Plants Essential to
the War-Will Form Basis
For Industrial Exemption
in Relation to Draft.

Washington, Sept. S.-The new
priorities list of Industries and plants
essential to the war or the civil popu-
lation was announced today by Chair
man Baruch, of the War Industries
Board. 1t was described as the "mas-
ter key governing the issuance /of
priority certificates by the priorities
commissioner of the board for fuel
supply or electrical energy, transpor-
tation, material facilities, capital and
labor and as the basis for industrial
exemption for the draft.
"The inclusion of Industries and
plants on this preference list, said
the announcement, "does not operate
as an embargo against all others, but
the effect is to defer the requirements
of all other industries and plants un-
til the requirements of those on the
preference list shall have been salts
fed.
Industries have been grouped in
to four classes according to their rel
ative Importance. No distinction, how
ever, has been made between any of
the industries or plants within any
one class, and it was explained that
no significance is to be attached to
the order in which they are listed
with any class. The industries Or
plants under class 1 are of exception
al Importance and include those most
vital to the prosecution of the war
and the public, and their require
ments must be fully met in prefer
ence to those in the three remaining
classes.
Fuel for domestic consumption,
residences, apartment houses, restau-
rants and hotels are in class l.. In
that class also are food, railways op-
Grated by the railroad administration,
the army and navy, aircraft ships and
ship yards, war chemical plants, coal
mines and by-product coke plants,
certain nuhlic utilities ordnance and
small arms plants and ammunition
and explosives.
Requirements of those grouped un
der classes 2, 3 and will be given
| priority over those not on the prefer
ence list, but as between these three
classes there is no complete or abso-
lutte preference provided. Relative i'm
| portance of the industries and plants
within each group will be the basis
! operation.
! Each plant listed in the three last
classes will be required to file with
the War Industries Board before tha
18th of each month a report of its
activities during the preceding
month. Failure to comply with this
order will mean removal from the
preference list.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10
COTTON GINNINGS
ALMOST DOUBLED

Washington, Sept. 9.-The census
cotton report today shows 1,039,620
bales ginned from the 1918 crop up
tc September 1, 1918. The same
period in 1917 showed 614,787 bales
ginned and 85O,668 for the same
period in 1916.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10
LOCAL BOARD OFFICE
TO MOVE UPSTAIRS.

The Office of the Local Board has
been moved from the Clerk of
Courts Office to the Office upstairs.
Those wishing to transact busi-
ness with the Local Board, please
take notice. The Local Boards Of
fee will be the first office as you go
UP the back stair case of the Court
House hall.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10

William Marshall of Boraville, Ga.
who has been visiting his aunt, Mrs.
c. S. Jones, left for his home Fri
day mornin. He no doubt wanted to
stay longer. But even the most dar-
ing of Boy Scouts must surrender
Internationally to that stern and
harsh soldier General School-teacher
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10
French Pressing East
ward Toward La Fere
and Laon
HUNS FIGHT DESPERATELY
Allies Gain Ground Between Vesle
and Aisne Rivers, Where Ameri-
cans Are Fighting With
French.

The British and French armies
continue to cut their way into the
German lines on various sectors of
the lower part of the battle line in
France.
Notwithstanding the weather,
which has caused somewhat of a
slackening in the violence of the op-
erations, Field Marshal Haig's forces
have materially encroached upon
Cambria and St. Quentin, while far
ther south the French armies are
pressing eastward on the old Moyon
sector otward La Fere and Laon and
rorthward from Scissors in an aux
iliary manoeuvre with the same OBJ
ectives in view.
Between the Vesle and the Aisne
rivers, where the American troops
are fighting with the French, addi-
tional ground has been gained by
the Allied forces.
Six Miles of St. Quentin.
The British now are standing at
Villeveque, six miles from st. Quen-
tin, having carried out an advance
over a ten-mile front on the general
line of the Epehy, Hesbecourt and
Vermand. To the north the greater
part of the Havrincourt wood one Of
the German strong points barring
the way to Cambria, also has been
captured. So rapid has been the
British advance along this portion of
the front that they now are in the
positions they, held before the big
German drive of last March. In these
positions the Germans are offering
stout resistance to further progress
by the British.
Encircling Forest.
Gradually the French are working
their way around the St. Gobian for
est north of Scissors in the move
ment that aims at the outfianking of
La Fere and Laon and all the Ger
man positions east of this region.
They have reached the outskirts of
the village of Sevais on the northern
edge of the forest and two and a
half miles from La Fere, while a
short distance to the north they have
taken the village of Nemesis, on
the st. Quentin canal. This latter
gain brings the French within little
more than eight miles from ST..
Quentin.
Huns Fighting Desperately.
North of the Aisne, near Scissors,
the Germans are fighting hard to
keep the French in check, realizing
that the gain by them of much more
territory in this region, in conunc-
ton with the manoeuvre that is in
progress around the St. Gobian for
est, will place the entire German de-
fense line eastward toward Rheims
in critical position.
During the first week of Septem-
Der Field Marshal Haig's forces have
taken more than 10000 prisoners
and large numbers of machine guns
and quantities of stores.
That further big events are on the
program of the Eentente Allies in
the prosecution of the war is indi-
Gated by the fact that Newton D.
BaLer, the American Secretary of
War, is in France for a war confer
ence.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10

Miss Helen Eakin has returned to
Abbeville and resumed her studies
in the High School. She is one of
the especially bright pupils of the
tenth grade.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10
Chief Interest In Pol.
locks Candidacy for
Senate. .. ........s !.
EARLY VOTING IS URGED
Offices of Attorney General, Rail-
road Commissioner, Conptroller
General and Others Also to Be 3. &.
Filled.

Charleston, Sept. 9.-Demo mocrats
of South Carolina will tomorrow
choose nominees for United States
Senator, short term: Attorney Gem
eral, Railroad Commissioner, Comp
troller General and Commissioner of
Agriculture, Commerce and Indus
tries, in the second primary election.
With the exception of Comptroller,
General the contests are brought
over from the first South Carolina
primary held August 27. Carlton w.
Sawyer, candidate for Comptroller
General without opposition, was ac-
;identally killed three days before
the primary and this, as special
primary, will nominate his successor.
Three candidates are in the race,
Rutledge L. Osborne, appointed by
Governor Manning to serve until the
election, E. C. Elmore, of Pickens,
and James A. SUNNI ersett, of Column
bia. - -
Senate, Short Term.
William P. Pollock, of CheraW,
and Thomas H. Peoples, of Barnwell,
are the candidates for. the short
Senate term. Sam M. Wolfe, Of
Anderson, and Claude N. Sapp, Of
Lancaster, seek the nomination for
Attorney General. B. Harris and
W. D. Garrison, both of Anderson,
are the candidates for Commissions
er of Agriculture, Commerce and
Industries, while the race for Rail-
road Commissioner is between H.
H. Arnold, of Spartanburg, and A.
A. Richardson, of Columbia.
In the fourth district a second
race for Congress will be decided be-
tween the incumbent, Sam ]. Mich
OILS, and Horace L. Bomar. Both can
didates are from Spartanburg.
In the first primary candidates
were nominated for the United
States Senate, Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Superintendent of Educa-
tion, three places in Congress, and
county Offices.
The official ticket follows:
(Vote for One and Scratch the
Others.)
U. S. Senator, Short Term.
THOS. H. PEOPLES.
W. P. POLLOCK. s
Attorney General.
CLAUD N. SAPP.
S. M. WOLFE. I. I
Railroad Commissioner. a
H. H. ARNOLD. q
A. A. RICHARDSON.
Commissioner of Agriculture, Com
merce and Industries.
w. D. GARRISON.
B. HARRIS.
Comptroller General.
E. C.. ELMEORE.
RUT. L. OSBORNE.
JAS. A. .SUMMERSETT.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-10

Wallace Cheatham and Tom Har-
rison Forded to Troy in the rain
last Saturday and said goodbye to
relatives.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-02
THE MAKING OF
4 FAMOUS
MEDICINE
How Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
ls Prepared For
Woman's Use.

A visit to the laboratory where this
successful remedy is made impresses
even the casual looker-on with the reli-
ability, accuracy, skill and cleanliness
which attends the making OF this great
medicine for woman g ills.
Over $50, 900 pounds Of various herbs
are used annually and all have to be
gathered at the season of the year when
their natural juices and medicinal sub
stances are at their best.
The most successful solvents are used
to extract the medicinal properties from
these herbs.
Every utensil and tank that comes in
contact with the medicine is ste,ilized
and as final precaution in cleanliness
the medicine is pasteurized and sealed
in sterile bottles.
It is the wonderful combination of
roots and herbs, together with the
skill and care used in its preparation
which has made this famous medicine
80 successful in the treatment of
female Ills.
The letters from women who have
been restored to health by the use of
Lydia e. Pjnkham's Vegetable Com
pound which we are continually pub
fishing attest to its virtue.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-02

Children and Christmas are almost
anonymous terms. No one can think OF
q gift laden Christmas tree or a stocking
bulging with presents without thinking
Of the youngsters.
It is because Christmas is the children
particular feast that the National Asso-
citation for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis Is asking the public at this
time to think Of the little ones. the pri-
mary sufferers from tuberculosis. who will
benefit by the sale Of Red Cross Christ
mas seals.
These youngsters are not like the sturdy
boys and girls whom we associate witt
Christmas and who push their way
through holiday crowds and stand with
noses pressed against toy shop windows.
Many Of them are wrecks OF childhood.
They are underfed and underdeveloped.
They have not the stamina that belongs
to childhood They have all the ear
marks Of disease.
There are thousands OF them In this
country. products of poverty and bad
A.-,Sin1 conditions. Many of them are
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-02
HOW MADGE ESCAPED FROM
HARRY UNDERWOOD

When I saw Harry Underwood hur-
rying toward the door Of the omnibus
on the top of which l was riding, I
rose from my seat in Wild idea OF
fight.
knew that he intended to join me.
I felt that I could not ride up Fifth
avenue conspicuously seated upon the
top of a bus with this man by my
side. But a second thought made me
stay where / was. l could not reach
the street and get away unobserved.
He would meet me coming down. l
had experienced enough of his persist
ence to know that he would turn and
walk with me wherever / went. l was
afraid he would urge me to nave lunch
with him.
Unreasoning and silly as felt the
feeling to be, yet / really felt safer
with him on the top of an omnibus
than l would walking with him on the
street / resolved to stay where was,
to treat his appearance in the most
matter-of-fact way and to invent an
errand in some part of the uptown
route of the bus which would enable
me to leave him suddenly.
So when heard his deep voice a
moment later I was able to return his
greeting coolly
inspecting the street OF the Big
Bluff? How do you like it?'' He bow
ed mockingly.
VERY much indeed. Why do you
call it that"
If / could only keep the converse
ton at this pitch I need not fear any
unpleasantness other than the dislike
| always had of his presence.
ooh, simply because it holds more
Bluffs to the square foot than any
other street in the world
He stood expectantly by my seat. I
had hoped he would take either the
seat opposite to me or the one behind
me, and had not made room for him.
But he laid his hand on the back of
the seat as if he were going to sit
down, and, willy-nilly, l had to move
over.
The seats on top of the buses are
narrow enough when two slenderly-
built people share them. I am slender
but Harry Underwood is big man,
tall and massive-framed. shrank over
as close to the side of the seat as
could get, but could not escape being
crowded intentionally against him.
Now we are nice and cosey," he
said, audaciously slipping his arm
across the back Of the seat.
I had made many trips on the ommi-
bus in the old cousinly days with Jack.
Before we were married Dick and /
had taken two or three blissful rides
upon this seat, or one just like it.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-02

by the National Association and the
American Red Cross, which are cooper
ating with hundreds of anti-tuberculosis
associations for the success Of the Red
Cross seal sale. The question they are
asking is, Can any community afford to
neglect its tuberculous and anaemic chill
drsp when it is within its power to es-
tablish preventoria and sanatoria for
their care?"
Red Cross seals provide ninety per cent
OF the financial basis for the educational
side OF the fight against tuberculosis. an
important part of which is the establish.
ing Of children's hospitals. By putting
on little extra steam during this holiday
season and increasing the sale OF the
stickers funds can be raised to meet the
growing problem Of the infected and the
border line children.
In many communities children's pa.
viions and sanatoria have been built with
funds raised In former years by the sale
Of Christmas seals. The etickers have
been life savers for the children. They
have safeguarded them against disease and
put them on the road to useful and et'
ficieut citizenship.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-02

every two weeks and all we did was
say mean things about our acquaint-
ances. Half of the girls were married
and they acted as if there was no hope
for me and l would surely be an old
maid. A young married woman from
another town moved here. Il loved
her. she was SO pretty and jolly and
unaffected. OF course, we got her
into the club right away.
After club meetings ] would go
home and cry, because the girls had
treated me with such contempt So
when l started to work l dropped
out
The other night / had occasion to
telephone one of the girls whom /
always liked very much and who still
is a member Of the club She said
that it had been reported at the club
that was secretly married-which, of
course, was ridiculous. She also said
that the dear married girl from out OF
town had met me on the street and
spoken to me and / didn't answer
Just laughed in her face.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-02

fne:" resolved to take the CONVEX
sat1rn into my own hands, and keep
It there.
Wary well, I thank you" He put
h11 dnBor in HIS mouth and mimicked
: small girl repeating first lesson in
courteous answer.
y An 70 glad" said, ignoring his
buf3oonsry. II was SO afraid she would
Be III after her hard work jnst night"
"0hs was . bit upsst afteY vs got
heme, but she was oh right this morn
ING whan che left f6r the studio
wonder what busfuess or pfofes-
SION this man could have 70 enable
him 70 stroll IDLY down fifth avenue
IA tbs lats afternoon, while Ms wife
was busy Il the studio. I msant to
Ask Dicky about it.
ITO be contfnuedJ
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-01-02

LONDON, Jan. 3 (SpeciaD-
While Captain NJ. J. G. Evans Of the
Royal flying corps is doing his bit for
England in the air on the western
front his pretty wife is devoting her
talents behind the footlights to wal
relief work OF all sorts here at home.
There have been few stage perform
ances in the last year in London in
which Mrs. Evans has not taken part
She is talented actress and was Ca
mile Clifford before her marriage a
few years ago to Hon. Lyndhurst
Bruce
Bruce was killed early in the war
and the widow married Evans. Pray
ing she will not be twice widowed
by the war she is devoting her, every
minute and talent to RELIEF work.