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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

Speaking of policemen, anyway,
does anybody know any reason why
we should have policemen? When
we were a small boy and came to
town, Chief Riley, it seemed to us,
"policed" the whole town. There
were barrooms, and liquor, and ev-
erything in town then. Now that
the bar-rooms have been abolished
and the great moral institution has
made us moral, and the town is
asleep, and everybody is happy and
contented, and nobody wants to-
fight anyway, and nobody can get
drunk, and on account of the high
cost of living there is not enough
to gamble with or fall out
about, why not allow the pleasant
gentlemen of the police department,
as they are already accustomed to
wearing uniforms, join the war forces
of the country, get them a farm
and assist Mr.. Tom w. Wilson and
Mr.. Herbert Hoover in feeding the
army A word to the wise is suffi-
,ient, or should be.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

Unless the gentlemen who are now
members of the city council meas
ure themselves by the salaries they
draw they should Immediately pass
an order that the janitor scour the
City Hall.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01
RED CROSS MEMBERSHIP.
Bethel School District, L. A. Jacl

ethel School District, L. A. Jack
son, Manager.
L. A. Jackson,
A. A. Jackson.
Mrs. William Conner
Dave Lawton
C. S. Turner
Elihu Finley.
Jim Willard
Robt. Murray
Esther Marshall
Robt. Norman
Cain Robinson
Francis Brown
Ben Walton
Jim Belcher
Walter Willard
Robt. Daniels
J. T. Rouse !
C. Rouse
w. M. Rouse
George Sibert
Allen Mcbride
Will Haynie
Robt. Scott
Will Minis O.
Cain Kennedy
William Wardlaw
Carrie Jordan
Lee Marshall
Tom Burton
Aaron Roche -..
Shepp Rafford,
Lucy Wilson
Johnnie Moseley. ... ~.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

We arise now to remark that the
Tax Commission has evidently seen
she handwriting on the wall. The
order is rescinded.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

Lone Forrest School District, J. J
Grant, Manager. y =
W. W. Wilson
w. D. Bell
G.. S. Lewis
H. E. Campbell &
j. F. McMahan
J. R. Grant : ~.
G C. Grant -,
W. B. Mann
Mrs. Eta J. Young
Mrs. L. A. Hall
J. B. Hall
E. F. Campbell
F. W. Wright
J. M. Wright
Lewis Tucker
James Chiles
Malici Stacker - f.
Wilson Cummings
Martha Nixon .' ~
=, Arthur Hunter
Alex Hill e., .. r.
J. ]. Hunter -.
R. P. Tribble ....5. .
Lindsay Robertson :.
w. R Robertson ~ -
Frank Miller .. e.. ,a.r
G.. Clean ..- r..
A. L. Hunter
Eadie Harris
f Rosa Danley.
.ons Cane School District, }. K
Lomax and r. H. Stevenson, Mgr.
J. A. Stevenson @u
Miss Fannie May Stevenson
R. n. Stevenson -a.n.r'
Mrs. R. H. Stevenson o..
Lewis Finley ,'...
A. T. Bolts .. ."
Thomas Beaufort
T. L. Clamp '
Solomon Coleman
Will Sloan ~
Inn r JOmax v
.. Mrs. Jno. r. Lonax
Kathleen Lomax
Mrs. n. ]. Pratt
Helen E. Pratt
Jim Rykard
S. W. Wharton
J. v. and O. W. Croner (one)
E. F. Miller
J. D. Miller, Jr.
Jane Anderson
, John Cosby
Will Johnson
John Adams
Ben Hughey
George Bakin
George Bakin, Jr.
John Eakin
R. W. Franklin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

One reason why we know the
Kaiser is going to be whipped is that
Mexico is growing tired Of German
propaganda. &C..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

Or was it the voices from the re-
mote parts of the district that the
members of the esteemed Tax Com
mission heard? ..
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

The legislature should be almost
ready to adjourn, having passed 6
heifer, law.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

Sometimes John L. McLaurin al
most persuades us to be Christian.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

Our foreman tells us. that it is an
i'll wind that blows nobody any wood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

Pay up your subscription before
your name is cut off. '
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

The bunch of wire which was for
merly, used to twist the mules nose
while DR.. O'Bryant gave the mule a
dose of his latest medicine, is now
used to pull open the door to the
Court House.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-02-01

If the members of the city coun-
ell believe that the lawyers who oc-
cupy the Offices in the City Hall are
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19

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The Loan Programme

Liberty Land" All day. Admis-
sion free. Exhibit war relics.
Evening: Mendelssohn Glee Club.
Band concert
9 a. m.-Liberty Ball and Liberty
Coach leave Utica for Frankfort.
12 m.--Sub- Treasury steps. Opera
day. Speakers and singers, Ger
aldine Farrar, PasQuale Amato.
Antonio Scott, Rosina CALI, Of
the Metropolitan Opera Company;
Lucien Muratore, Chicago Opera
Company, and Yvette Guilbert.
10 m.-Liberty Bell, City Hall Park.
Speakers and music.
IL m.-Liberty Theatre, Public Nj
brary. Speakers: Grant Mitchell,
the Rev. Karl Reiland and others.
teenth Coast Artillery band, also
United States ship Recruit band.
Jane Houghton, champion woman
rifle shot, will give exhibition.
~ m.-Liberty Bank. Madison
Square Park. Patriotic pro-
gramme.
12 m.-Liberty Bell Park, Madison
Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street.
Fine musical programme.
1880 p. m.-Opening of Liberty
Loan booth at Union League
Club.
1880 p. m.-Meeting Patriotic Ser
vice League, Columbia University
gymnasium. Arthur Guy Empev,
principal speaker.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Belgian Orphan
Booms War Stamps
AS 'Jitney Bombs
'Were Out to Blow Up the
Kaiser, He Says, and the
Crowd Buys

"Jitnev Eombs," which mean war
saving stamps, drifted like wind blown
leaves into the pockets of the crowd
before the Public Library booth, at
Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street,
Yesterday when jacques, four-yca
and asked his American compatriots
to bid up against the Kaiser
Mrs Thomas G. Patten, in charge OF
the booth, was Of the opinion that hcr
chief speaker meant to say something
entirely different and prompted him in
q stage aside. But Jacques knew what
he was talking about. "Jitney bombs"
he insisted. "We'rc out to blow up the
Kaiser" And the crowd was perfectly
agreeable. jacques sold $500 worth of
stamps in one afternoon.
jacques he's no family name for
publ: use" said Mrs. Patten when she
got her breath IN the furry of buying.
"He is the adopted son of a New York
ing together on the Belgian front His
4dtHSI >" oo hAliCN AL OoCIi'- "HC1l iiC w q .
six months old; his mother was one
of the victims Of the Hun. She lost
her .easor and died early in the war. /"
Before he was old enough to form
memories jacques was brought to the
United States by his adopted parents.
His language is pure American, and he
has never learned sentence of his
mothers tongue. But he has picked up
the gift of expression in the words of
his new found people.
"Ws've got to go over there and help
thos. Belgians." he said. "And we'll
do it. If you'll buy the jitneys there's
nothing to it."
When you tip waiter at the Bilt-
more Hotel you can finish your cigar
with the comforting after dinner
thought that Uncle Sam gets his, too.
The walters and bus boys have agreed
to pool their tips and buy Liberty
bonds. An Armenian employed in one
Of the Biltmore dining rooms appeared
yesterday at the Liberty Loan booth at
Forty-hrst Street and Fifth Avenue.
conducted by Katherine Emmett and
Rae Cox, and announced that he had
$500 in accumulated tips to invest.
II heard James Forbes, the writer.
speak here the other day." he said. 81
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
lStaf Correspondence

ROLLING ALONG WITH THE LIB.
ERTY BALL, UTICA, April 1s.-The
three miles of Genesee Street (Utica s
great White Way) were crowded to-
day by a moving spectacle which all
the candidates for oldest inhabitant
honors allowed to be the most impress
sive and pretentious procession since
Sunny Jim" Sherman was elected Vice
President Of the United States.
There were more than 1900 school
children in line, GOO soldiers, sailors
and marines, who are stationed at a
local munitions factory, home guards
men of Utica and New York State, all
the public officials Of the present ad-
ministration, detachments from the Ro.
tary and Elks Clubs, Red Cross chapter
members in uniform, 200 automobiles
and many other sections
These marched through human lines
lining both sides Of the street. under
myriad OF banners. emblems anC
posters draped from windows and troi-
ley wires.
The real cause of this great display
rocked and lurched drunkenly behind
everything. 1t was the Liberty Bal
now rolling through New York State
With new iron tire grated on its
peeling frame, it responded ungrace
fully to the vehement urgings Of the
Utica Boy Scouts, who had drawn it
seven miles, half way from Rome.
Reception for the Liberty Ball
The enthusiastic reception was not
, to the ball and coach. 1t was to the
ball alone. Maurice Hewlett, in Rome
in the morning, pronounced one Of his
grays unfit for temporary use through
hoof trouble, and rather than break the
quartet he hired four stalwart- looking
animals from Rome's livery stable. The
stalwartness did not extend beyond the
looks. On inclines they often developed
four miles an hour. but deliberately
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19

used to wait on Mr.. Forbes. and he
never made a kick once about the ser. ~.
wee. And I'm here to say that I'd
rather wait on him than on that man
Hlndenburg. told that to the other
waters, and they said they're tor
Forbes, too. So we'll get together
ABOUT $500 every day and put it IN
against the crowd. When YOU fellows
raise an equal sum we put in ours"
In less than two minutes the crowd
treated itself to the novel spectacle or
waiter unburdening himself of tins.
genuine, live colonel on the auc-
ton block proved a paying commodity
IN the hands of the committee DEALING
IN Liberty bonds at tho corner of
Broadway and Forty-second Street
colonel Smithfield. Of the Boy Scouts. .
announced the auctioneer-"a pro-
spective slave of Junkerdom. Who'll
buy. him before the Kaiser bids bi'.1
in" Nio" "iA-i
There were a dozen or more bond
buyers in the audience, but none vas
IN immediate need of uniformed of1.
Ger. We don't want him nerma-
nently," shouted man by the c,,rh
but make him sing. Fifty dollars fo,
& song" ioi
"Not for less than $780," said the
auctloneer. "A lieutenant or a captain
might do it for $50, but never -
j., The ante was promptly raised and
the colonel obliged.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19

cane, and straining his voice against
the uproar.
Gee. what's the matter with you
folks anyway" he cried. You ought
to have this loan subscribed in three
days. The fighting in this war ia up
to US young fellows. All the older
men at home have to do is to come
across with the money. We aren't
afraid to die. Gee, Pm shot full of
holes, but I'd go back tomorrow if l
could. You folks can't go, but here's
your chance to send u.s."
Then the boys voice gave out. and
he guivered all over as he leaned
against his cane. Maximilian Foster,
IN charge, ordered him to sit down.
Let me toll you about this boy" he
cried. "His name is Johnny Murphy,
and he belonged to the Suicide Club at
Vlmy Ridge. The Suicide Club boys
are the ones who take the four-minute
bombs in their hands and rush with
them toward the German trenches.
The trick is to throw them just in time
to have them explode in the German
lines before the Germans have time to
throw them back. This boy did his
pit. to the tune Of twenty wounds.
He's the kind of boy that's doing the
really hard things in this war. You
PeoPie nave nothlng to do but buy
bonds. Come on, now"
One hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollars has been subscribed at the
booth in the station. Barnard Colleg.
women are in charge, and several
Canadian soldiers, including Corporal
Murphy, are there most of the time.
This afternoon James Montgomery
f,iagg is scheduled to draw sketches OF
all buying $1,000 worth of bonds
Briggs to Help To-day
1t will be cartoonists' day at the Lib
erty Theatre, at the Public Library.
with Briggs, Hy Mayer and Rube Cold
berg on hand to make a cartoon of anv
one who buys 800 bond.
At Liberty Land" in the 69th Reri-
ment armory, yesterday five thousand
members of the Silk Division Of the
Liberty Loan Committee obtained sub
bonds. 0oei' ~
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
German Woman Purchases Bond;
Her Brothers Fight for Kaiser
Six of Them Are in German Army She Says She Pays
nstalment and Her Son Rings Liberty Bell
Vimy Ridge Hero Aids Drive

There was woman. with a four
year-old boy, sitting on bench in
Madison Square, yesterday afternoon,
while speakers and the big brass bell
at the Liberty Bank doomed the sales
Of bonds for Uncle Sam. She attracted
the attention of the women in charge of
the bank by her interest in the sales.
They wondered why she bought none
herself.
When the crowd melted away and
the bank was deserted, she came closer
"ls there any way l could get a
bond?" she asked of Mrs. Coffin Van
Rensselaer,, captain of the bond sales
women.
Brothers in German Army
"You see, Pm German" she went on
land didn't dare ask for bonds where
the men were selling them, but
thought maybe you, being a woman
would explain what have to do to get
bond I have six brothers in the
German army. but that doesn't make
me want this country to lose. I've
been seven years here and I've been
treated we'll. l want this to be my
country, and Pm going to bring up my
little boy to be an American. That's
why | want to buy bond for him."
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, explained that
there was no reason why German born
should not buy bonds. The woman
then dug into her knitting bag and pro-
duced the first instalment on a S1OG
bond.
a few moments later, the home hur-
rying crowds stopped to smile at the
spectacle of fair-haired child pulling
the rope that rings the Liberty Bell
Vimy Ridge Hero Aids Drive
In the Grand Central commuter:
stopped. listened. and lost their train
A slim, pallid boy was standing on the
platform. leaning heavily against {
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19

We. the citizenrv army, must reap the
evils of that imitation IN values which
we have created, because We must pay
to the government in taxes the dollars
with which to repay its debt. We must
suffer individually and collectively
from such imitation and defiation.
"But you are perhaps asking why,
invited to-day to your rostrum to dis
cuss the Liberty Loan, I am endeavor-
ing at such length to make clear GER
tain basic economic truths. do SO be-
cause they have a distinct bearing
upon the reason why you should sub
you should subscribe. the reason why
you should subscribe beyond the saw
ings that you have accumulated in
your pocket, the reason why you should
60 to your bank and borrow against
your future savings and the reason
why YOU should cut down in your con-
sumption Of things. and thus make a
saving in dollars with which to liqul-
date such bank loans.
"You are asked to save. That saving
Of things by which you will save dol
lars to pay off your loans is not only a
saving which will help your govern
self-interest. even beyond the self-in-
terest already pointed out. Your dol
lar to-day, translated into the value Of
things, is worth approximately SO cents
as values now compare with normal
values. A return Of that dollar to you
by the government ten years from to-
day. when we can safely assume that
the production and the consumption OF
things will have reached normal level,
will be the equivalent, measured again
in things, of double the amount, or $2."
Among the larger subscribers in the
Cotton Exchange were Shearson, Hem
mill & Co., 100000; S. NJ. Lehman,
100000; Hubbard Bros. & Co., $780,
900; George H. MacFadden & Bros,
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
Utica Gives Royal Greeting and
Many Dollars to the Liberty Ball
citizens lurn Out by Thousands to Welcome Globe Of
Menace to Autocracy and Add $8000O0 to
Help Strafe' the Kaiser

quit on all upgrades With one hours
start the ball reached Utica in time to
enjoy an exclusive celebration.
During pause in the afternoon,
while all Utica was surveying the Lib
erty Ball in front of the City Hall, the
grays arrived from Rome.
When M. Sessions, who drew the
plans, properties and personnel of the
reception parade, assured the rollers
in Rome of an innovation in the nat
ure- of warm hearted welcome he
did not refer to the parade in it's en-
tlrety. it proved, but to a battalion of
200 typical homeloving women.
They were young and old. stout and
slim, but all made akin by flags draped
across their houlders-service flags
mothers, wives and sisters of the boys
facing the German onslaught. They
were marching to stimulate the interest
in the third Liberty Loan, and to pay
tribute to the faithful, but not sturdy
Liberty Ball.
Five Stars in Her Service Flag
Almost obscured within the ranks of
the parade an elderly woman breathed
heavily as she trudged to the lively
music. Her service flag was studded
with five stars.
After the parade, the touring party
witnessed the daily reporting Of the
Liberty Loan Drive Committee. The
quota was enriched by more than $780,
600, a substantial percentage of which
was due to the appearance of the ball
John Burke. national Treasurer, who
autographs the currency, congratulated
the Uticans on their spirit and deter
mination.
On the route three towns with over
subscribed quotas have been passed
one, Verona, yesterday, and two, Hinck-
ley and New York Mills, to-day.
The population of none of the towns
to be covered tomorrow runs into five
figures, but this has not lessened the
anticipation of those rolling along"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
DO Your Duty! Buy
Bondsp Roosevelt
Tells Oyster Bay
5000 Persons Hear Colonel
Boost Loan and Denounce
Pacifsts

OYSTER BAY, April lS.-"Neigh-
5ors, do your duty! Buy Liberty
bonds" shouted Colonel Roosevelt this
evening to 5000 persons at a Liberty
Loan meeting. A service flag showing
$40 young men from this town in the
army and navy was unfurled.
eve have got to win this war if it
takes five million men," Colonel Roose-
velt said. every one Of US has duty
to perform. We must back up the men
at the front. The men or women who
fail in their duty are traitors to this
country, and we at home can do our
duty by buying bonds. They are a
good investment from an investment
point. If they are not good, why Uncle
Sam will bust up, that's all"
The Colonel spoke of the lack of
guns and airplanes abroad and of
his horror for the pacifist and con-
scientious objector. This type of man,
he said, should be put on a mine
sweeper where he might get killed and
still not kill any one.
In introducing Congressman Fred
erick c. Hicks, the Colonel spoke of
his. as fighting Quaker" and he
urged the Congressman to use every
effort to speed up the war and see that
this country did not allow England
France and Italy to bear the brunt of
the fray any longer. Congress sman
Hicks urged all to buy bonds, and told
OF scenes he saw in Europe while a
member of the Congressional commit
tee.
Father John L. Belford, in crticising
press censorship. said: II hope the Ad-
nrinistration will tell the truth about
what is going on and not all of them
be official liars"
Corporal Michael Sullivan. of the
Royal Irish Rifles, also spoke.
In the afternoon Colonel Roosevelt
addressed the Womens Civic League
of which Mrs. Thomas L. Clarke is
chairman. He said:
Every American to-day should feel
deeply, for this country has not done
all it ought to do. We must put fight
ing men on the line. The mother has
her part to play; she must send him
IF with high heart, expect him to do
what his forefathers did She who
whines and doesn't want her son to
go is rs unfit for citizenship as q
Stacker"
Strenuous demands will be made at
the town board meeting next Thurs
day for a prohibition of the sale of
German papers in this town. Boycott
of newsdealers has been talked about
but this has been deemed insufficient
1t has been urged that these papers
be kept entirely from circulation. Sew
eral scores of citizens are going to de-
mand it Of the town board
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
City's Loan Pledge
360o of Its Quota
Rest of the District 81 Per
Cent; Both Are Far
Behind

The responsibility for the slump of
the Second Federal Reserve District
in subscriptions is about equally
shared by New York City and the rest
of the district. The city has pledged
SO per cent of its quota, and the rest of
the district Sd per cent. Poughkee psie
leads in the district with 67 per cent
record; Newark is second, 63 per cent,
and Paterson, N. j.. third. SO per cent
Watertown, N. Y, has made the poor
est record, having in ten days only
2 per cent of its allotment.
In the remaining days of the cam
paign, the Second Federal Reserve
District will have to average $685.
$50 daily to attain the unofficial goal
of $l,500, 100000. At the same period
Of the second loan drive, the district
was slumning in the same way, having
pledged only S228. .422, $50.
An analysis of the statistics an
nounced yesterday by the Liberty Loan
Committee here follows:
NEW YORK CITY
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
DEATHS

BLACKWELL-On Wednesday, April II.
1918. Charlotte A. Blackwell widow OF
the late Edward Y. Blackwell, in her goth
year. Funeral private
BLINN-On Tuesday. April Is. 1918, Theo-
dore A.. aged "a years, formerly Of Gin
cinnati. Ohio. Funeral service at 153 East
44th ST. Friday at ESQ
BOviE-Suddenty. on Tuesday. April l6.
1918. Harry f.. husband of Dorothy Paul
Bowie. in his 49th year. Funeral services
will BE- held at the Lefferts Place Chapel,
Sc Lcfferts place. near Grand av, Brook
lyn. to-day ut J .. m
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
MARRIAGES

EEsMAN-CLARKE-A ST. Matthew
Church. Brooklyn, on Wednesday. April II.
by the Rev. F. W. Norris, D. D., Dorothy
Clarke, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs r. B.
Clarke. of Bayside, L. l.. to Ensign Walter
Laidlaw Cheesman. u s. N. Flying Corps
son Of Mr. and Mrs. +. Page Cheesman.
OF Brooklyn.
MONSEES = HASBROUCK-On THURSDAY
April 1s. 1918. at the home of the bride,
sister Mrs. A: Sellers. 1913 E. 33d st.,
Helen Dudley. daughter Of r. S. and e.
Hasbrouck. TO Frederick Ambrose Monsee..
New-York tribune., 1918-04-19
ENGAGEMENTS

MILLER-GARRAWAY-Mr and mrs 1o,,
Garraway. of 387 4th av., announce .hc
engagement Of their daughter. Pauline. to
Dr. Hudson r. Miller. Dr. Miller has
been commissioned first lieutenant in
the Medical Officers Reserve Corps and
Is attached to the United States Base Hos
pital No 81
MuEHLBERG-COLE- and Mrs. John
l. Cole. of East Orange, n j.. announce
the engagement of their daughter, Meta
" Cole. to Lieutenant Clarence E. Muehl-
berg. son of Nj Richard MuehIhery rs
St Louis "