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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-02-25
CRIMINAL COURT
NOW IN SESSION
Now Engaged Upon Case Of the Ne
gro, Mark Smith, Charged With
Shooting Deputy Sheriff Lester
Cam About Three Weeks
Ago.

The Court of General Sessions con-
vened on Monday morning with
Judge Frank B. Gary, of the eighth
circuit, presiding instead of Judge
Geo. E. Prince, who was expected to
preside. Judge Prince is sick in the
hospital at Anderson and was unable
to hold the court.
Solicitor Blackwell, Stenographer
Perrin, and the Clerk of Court and
Sheriff, with the deputies were all
on hand.
When the grand jury was called,
three of the members could not be
had, and it was necessary to draw
an extra venire. The petit jury was
also short six men and it was filled
in the same way.
Judge Gary charged the Grand
Jury as to their duties along the
usual lines, calling their attention
to the several matters under their
charge and explaining to them what
they were expected to do. His charge
was clear and lucid, and to the point.
The solicitor handed out num-
ber of bills for the confederation Of
the Grand Jury, among them the
State against Joe M. H. Ashley,
charged with murder. The grand
jury returned true bill in this case
and it was tried during the morning
hour. Greene & Earle Of Anderson,
represented the defendant, and he
was promptly acquitted. The homi-
eide according to the evidence oc-
Cured in Abbeville county while Mr..
Ashley was on official duty looking
for witnesses in a case pending in
Anderson County. He went to the
house of John Hogg, and ran into "a
crap game. When he entered the
house, Peter Clinkscales arose from
the floor with a pistol in his hand,
and attempted to shoot Mr.. Ashley,
but the sheriff was too quick for him.
- In the afternoon the case of the
State VS.. Mark Smith was taken up.
The defendant is charged with as
sault and battery with the intent to
kill, the prosecutor being Mr.. Lester
Cam, the deputy sheriff of Able
vile County. The testimony of the
state is in, and it was developed
on the stand from the witnesses for
the state that the prosecutor Mr..
Cam, and the men with him, Messrs.
Tom Finley and John Beauford,
were not armed with a warrant, and
that they went to the home of the
defendant for the purpose of search
ing his house in the night time, with
out any warrant. The defense will
be pitched on the ground that these
men were the aggressors, and that
they were intruders in the home Of
the defendant, had no right there,
and that he had right to use such
sorce as was necessary for the pur-
pose of ejecting them.
The testimony will be continued in
the morning when court convenes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-02-25
DR.. GAMBRELL "FORDS" 1T.

q DR.. C. C. Gambrell, who has re-
Gently been mustered out of the SER
vice and has returned to the prac-
tice of his profession in Abbeville,
has invested in new car and is
"Fording" it to see his patients. Our
son Bill tells US that it is the, "finest
Ford in town, it is a closed car and
has green body"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-02-25
ATTENDING CONFERENCE.

Rev. NJ. Il. P!axco left Monday
for Blue Ridge, N. c., where he goes
to attend a War Work Conference.
He will be away about ten days and
is looking forward to a pleasant and
profitable experience.
Mrs. Plaxco will be the guest of
Mrs. McMurray during this time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-02-25
GERMANS OFFER TO
SENDTROOPS HOME
Proposal i. Submitted to the Ameri'
e.n Authorities-Use Fleet of Big
Liners-Proposed Several Hun
dred thousand be Sent Home
via German Ports.

Berlin, Feb. 21:-A proposal to
transport several hundred thousand
men Of the American expeditionary
forces to the United States by way OF
Germany, placing them on board
ships at Bremen and Hamburg, has
been submitted to the American au-
thorities. According to the present
American arrangements, however,
the first of the units to be repatriat-
ed in German steamers will embark
from the Netherlands, but it is said
here that American army headquar-
ters is inclined to consider favorably
the route through Germany for some
of the later embarkati6ns, owing to
the transportation facilities and the
adequate dockage and other arrange
ments of the North German ports.
Fleet of Liners.
The proposal submitted by the di-
recters Of the North German Lloyd
line, with the approval of the Ger
man Government, provided that a
feet of big liners with a normal
carrying capacity Of fifty thousand
passengers should be assigned to this
service and the troops transported
from their present stations over the
direct trunk lines to Bremen and
Hamburg. Over these lines, accord
ing to Gen. Broener, now in charge
Of the German railways, a speedy
movement would be practical. The
steamers would be capable of re-
turning 100000 men in a year by
this route. As American experts
commented, however, if the ships
were loaded in accordance with the
present American military practice,
instead of under the. German pre-war
regulations, they would carry one
hundred thousand the trip.
Would Relieve France.
The steamship company directors,
in a memorandum to Gen. Pershing
pointed out the plan would relieve
the overtaxed French railways and
ports and provide distinctly quick
er route. They urged, also, as a.
gainstN embarkation in Holland that
theDutch railways were not well able
to cope with heavy troop traffic, and
that no buildings were available to
house the men during the inevitable
delays before boarding the steamers,
while, on the other hand, Hamburg
and Bremen had ample barracks. The
company proposed the transportation
on the return trips Of the supplies
promised Germany. e.,
The company was informed that
the American Government was al
ready committed to the scheme for
embarkation by way Of Holland and
corollary. arrangements had been
made for moving the first food ship
ments into Germany by way of Hol-
land and the Rhine, but the German
proposals would be submitted to
President Wilson and it was prob
able advantage would be taken Of
them in subsequent troop movements.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
OBITUARY
Mrs. VIM. Huppert

Mrs. Wilhelmine Huppert, wife of
William Huppert, died at her home
in Oak Grove last Wednesday, Oct.
|22, 1919, of plural pneumonia.
Mrs. Huppert was born in Austria,
January 20, 1881. She came to this
country when she was twelve years
old. On October 6, 1903, she was
married to William Huppert. Six
children were born to this union, three
boys, Edmund, Victor and Walter, and
three girls, Margaret, Freda and Hell
en-. The youngest died at the age of
six months.
Besides her husband and their five
children, Mrs. Huppert is survived by
her father, Frank Lubick, who has
made his home with her since the
death of Mrs. Lubick, which occurred
six years ago; also three sisters, Mrs.
Chas. Faast, of Durand, Mrs. Mike
Huppert of Oak Grove, and Pauline
Lubick of River Falls, and one broth
er, William Lubick, of Kinnickinnic.
Mrs. Huppert made many friends
during her life here whose sympathy
goes out to the bereaved family and
her aged father, who have lost dear,
beloved wife, mother, daughter and
sister.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
LANCER IMONS

Last Tuesday morning the marriage
of Mr.. Charles LANCER and Miss Eva
Simon was solemnized at the Catholic
church in Big River.
Miss Frances Rock acted as brides
maid and Mr.. Sylvester Simon, broth
er of the bride, as best man. The
brides dress was white georgette
crepe over white satin. The brides
maids dress was white satin. After
the ceremony an elaborate dinner was
served to the more immediate rel
atives of the bridal couple at the
brides home. In the evening supper
was served to a larger company. The
guests enjoyed several hours Of dane
ing during the evening. The happy
pair were the recipients Of many fine
presents. Mr.. LANCER and his bride
will soon go to housekeeping on his
fathers farm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
MISS DELLA SWEET MARRIED

Friends and acquaintance of Miss
Della B. Sweet, formerly of this city,
but more recently of Duluth, Mimi,
will be interested to know of her
marriage to Mr.. Ray o. King, Of Con-
rad, Mont, which took place at Great
Falls, Mont, Oct. Is, 1919.
The wedding occurred at high noon
in the Chapel of the Episcopal church
the service being read by the Rev
Christopher Keller. The attendants
were Miss Clara Mcpherson and Mr.
John T. Bell, the latter an uncle of
the bride. After the ceremony a we'd
ding breakfast was served at the
home of Miss Macpherson at the Rus
sci apartments. The bride and groom
then motored to Conrad, Mont, where
they will make their home, and where
Mr.. King is connected with the Hirsh-
berg Mercantile Co.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
REALTY LICENSES

Application forms for issuing licens-
es to real estate brokers were adopted
at meeting at Eau Claire last Thurs
day of the state real estate board
composed Of Tom O. Mason, Cumber-
land; C. H. Wildner, Superior; Elmer
Grimmer, Marinette, and B. C. Packer,
Madison, who is secretary of the board
as well as director of immigration.
This board was created under a re-
cent law, but its expenses are born
either individually or by the Wisconsin
Association of Real Estate Brokers,
an organization of men who are aware
of the many evils that are creeping
into the real estate business, partic-
ularly by sale of lands among unscru-
pulous persons many outsiders, in
northern Wisconsin.
The fact that the board was made up
mostly of northern state men drew
criticism from Milwaukee when the
governor made the appointments.
Licenses cost S. and $40, the low
amount being for statesmen employed
by brokers.
The board has power to deny, or re-
woke licenses for cause.
It is believed that in northern Wis
consin last year more real estate bust
ness was done than in all other states
west of the Mississippi.
1t is estimated that in 1919 about
2,400 families, averaging four and
seven-tenths persons each, settled in
northern Wisconsin. Most of them
came from Illinois, Iowa and southern
Minnesota, and many are young per-
sons.
To save these young settlers, who
drive in automobiles to pick out their
land, from swindlers, the legislature
passed the protective license law
Realty boards have been formed in
many northern Wisconsin cities.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
River Falls Post Of
The American
Legion Planned
Preliminary Arrangements Made for
Organization of Local Post.-Com-
mittee Named To Complete Details
OF Organization.

At a meeting Of over sixty former
service men in the City Hall last
Thursday evening, preliminary plans
for the organization Of tn local Post
Of the American Legion was complet-
ed.
Captain Burns, of Eau Claire, a
member of the Rainbow Division and
one of the first fifty thousand to go
over to France, gave an inspiring talk
on the purposes of the organization,
and outlined the proper procedure in
the securing of charter and the act
i've membership campaign.
The following executive committee
was elected to go ahead with the mat
ire of completing the organization
and to arrange for the next meeting
and to take up the membership drive:
Atty L. S. Doolittle, Professor W..
H. Hunt, DR.. A. E. Gendron, Leo Lowe
and S. r. Morse.
This committee will meet during the
week and discuss further the plans of
enlisting all of the men of this vicin-
ity in this 'all-American patriotic
league of ex-service men. There are
already over 100000 members in the
Legion, which will eventually become
one of the most powerful agencies in
the determination of the affairs of
government that has ever existed.
With potential membership of ov-
err 100000 young men, the American
Legion will be able to exert it's ire
mendous power for real Americanism
and just laws in way that will secure
justice and fair play for all.
Over sixty have already handed in
their names to join the River Falls
Post. Any former service man who
desires to join may do so by notifying
any member of the above named COM
mittee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
THE CITY HOSPITAL IDEA

River Falls is slow in starting the
establishment Of a permanent city
| hospital.
Although the movement has been
agitated and given more or less en-
Encouragement here for many years, it
has never been pushed with sufficient
zeal to put it across.
Temporary measures have been
adopted with good results, but always
under severe handicap. Yet, whatever
the nature of these relief measures,
they have proved in one way detri-
nnent, for the people seem to have losa
sight Of the fact that these were to
serve only temporarily, accepted them
for the real article, and have let the
matter rest.
At recent informal gathering for
a discussion of the hospital problem,
c. N. Wiger, Judge Knowles, VIM.
Finley, Nels Younggren and others
present suggested, with but slight
variations, the main idea in estab-
| lishment of hospital to serve this
community-cooperation of the entire
community. Their ideas were very
similar to those which are now being
very successfully carried out at Stan
| ley, Wisconsin.
That city and the adjoining commun-
ity to be served has been apportioned
out to large, representative and eff
ficient corps of solicitors who are So
Letting every person, SO that the Stan
ley hospital will be owned by cor
poration composed Of every man, wo-
man and child in that city and sur
rounding country. Madison, Wis, has
just completed a successful campaign
on the same plan, for a $4,000 hospi-
tai. The people of Stanley have an
other very excellent idea in naming
their new establishment the Victory
hospital, which is to be memorial to
the service men of that community.
The people of River Falls must dis
abuse their minds of the notion that
the hospital idea is something new or
of recent suggestion. 1t is years and
years old, dating back perhaps to the
early days of the normal school. 1t
is not the aftermath" of any space
filler article in the Times or the Journ-
al, at least not of the past twenty or
twenty-five years, and it did not orig
mate from the fact that "other towns
no larger than River Falls are main
tanning hospitals" nor is it any part
of the question whether or not other
such concerns are or are not making
money for the towns in which they are
located.
The thing that has kept this propo-
sition in the minds of the people for
SO many years is the glazing fact
that it is necessity, that it can be
the means of saving much human life,
that. it will reduce suffering, that Il
will bring happiness.
This much, and more, has been prov
en- by the service rendered by the
greatly handicapped temporary hospi-
tails which have been in operation here.
When the drive for River Falls hos
pital is launched it should, and we be
lieve it will, receive the solid support
of the community.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
MR.. ERLANDSON RESIGNS FROM
NORMAL FOR N. E. A. POSITION

~ -
Mr.. r. S. Erlandson, Of the Normal
school faculty, has resigned to accept
a position as assistant secretary Of
the National Educational Association,
at Washington, d. c.. Mr.. Erlandson's
work will be as assistant to former
president J. w. Crabtree of the local
normal school, now secretary of the
N. E. A., an organization whose grow
ing membership of over $4,000 in
cludes the leading educators of the
United States.
Mr.. Erlandson will be greatly mis-
sed by his many friends in this city,
yet all unite in congratulating him
upon this excellent recognition of his
talent. He has been leading factor
in the local Boy Scout movement, and
is highly esteemed by the boys for
whom he has done so much in this
work. He is also one of the leaders
in getting the local Post of the AM
lean Legion under way toward organ
ization, and has been untiring in his
efforts in behalf of both of these or
CARNATIONS. Mr.. Erlandson has won
high commentator from his associa-
ties in the school, and they, together
with his friends throughout the COM
munity, join in a regretful farewell,
and in extending heartiest best wishes
for his good health and prosperity in
his new location. Mr.. and Mrs. En-
landson will leave for Washington
about the seventh of November.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
CUMBERLAND SWAMPED, 6S to

The Cumberland high school team
journeyed to town Saturday to take
an awful drubbing from the local high.
The Cumberland, boys, lacking weight
and experience, but full of pluck, were
no match for Capt. PARIS tribe, and
it was the mildest kind of pastime
from start to finnish.
On the very few occasions where
they were on the defensive the River
Falls backfeld seldom took part in the
play, which was invariably stopped
before it reached the line of scrim-
mage. Cumberland got by with two
forward passes for good gains, but
on both occasions the next attempt
was intercepted and turned into a
touchdown for River Falls. The last
two periods were cut to eight minutes
each to allow the visitors time to catch
the train.
River Falls high has not been de-
feated this year and has big balance
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
WOMEN'S CLUBS INDORSE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS

The Wisconsin Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, in session at Beloit last
week, Endorsed the League of Nations,
and also recommended the celebration
Of Armstice day.
The Federation will appoint a COM
mittee in each community to study To-
cal conditions regarding the moving
picture displays and to report their
findings to the legislature committee
of the federation.
Superior was chosen for the next
convention.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
CONGREGATIONAL

10:30-Theme for sermon: 'Why Men
Fear Christ" Sermon follow
ed by the reception of members
in the observance of the Lords
Supper.
:45-Sunday School.
6:45-Y. P. S. C. E.
7:45-Public Worship. DR.. Thrush
will deliver an address on the
Industrial War" Men are
especially invited to attend this
service.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
Wmn111I1l1IIlI -
NOTICE

!: Beginning November 1st, 1919
/: will move to st. Paul, MINI. My
]: office will be in the -Pittsburg
/: Bldg, Suite 6O8, next to the Low
/: ry Annex, less than block from
: the st. Paul Hotel. / will main
/: tain a Branch Office in River Falls
: Fremont Block two days of each
: week, Tuesday and Friday, and the
nights Of those days.
: DR.. E. RANDOLPH SMITH
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30

Mrs. Louis Smith, of Briarville,
Mimi, who is visiting relatives at
Ellsworth, visited at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. C. w. Heidbrink in this city
from Saturday until Tuesday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
METHODIST CHURCH

10:30-Usual morning service.
I11:45-Sunday School.
7:30-Regular evening service.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30

80 $3.50 - eAo eiSdily ucCOIdteu III nal
lowe'en designs for this occasion. The
following guests were present: Misses
Mary Carroll, Vinta Nopp, Shirley
Sansburn, Lorraine Anderson, Ella
Borgeson, Viola Bailey, and Messrs.
William Parr, Harold Gibson, julius
Savage, Donald McKinnon. LaSalle
Rork, Carol Brown and Arthur NAL
lory.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Younggren Entertain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Younggren
were host and hostess at very fine
three-course turkey dinner at their
fine home in Mann Valley last evening.
Twenty-Five guests were present to
enjoy Mr.. and Mrs. Younggren's hos
pitality. Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Williams
were the guests of honor.
Attend Ellsworth w. r. C. Dinner
On Wednesday, Oct %, Ellsworth
w. R. c. served dinner to about forty
invited members of the River Falls
w. R. G. and Post and also the G. A.
f. Post Of Ellsworth. Following din
ner the local corps was inspected
by Department President Mrs. Geral-
dine Fernton of Waukesha. Mrs.
Fernton spoke we'll of the work of the
Corps and. stated that the local order
ranks with the best in, the state. After
q few remarks by visiting members
and some readings by local members,
all retired to the dining hall where a
bounteous lunch was served. Visitors
end members then left for their homes,
all agreeing that they had spent a
very pleasant and profitable day
Pierce County Herald.
Turkey Dinners At Younggren's.-
Two Of the most elaborate and en-
joyable social functions of the season
were given at the Nels Younggren
home last Friday and Saturday even
ings. On each evening about thirty
ladies and gentlemen were entertained
at four-course turkey dinner, given
by Mr.. and Mrs. Nels Younggren, Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Smith, Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Weberg and Miss Edith We
berg in honor of their sister, Mrs. Joe
and her husband, of Pasa-
dena, California. The house was dec
Grated with weird-faced Jack O. Lam
terms, scattered about, suggesting the
season when witches and COLLINS are
abroad in the land. The table decor
ations carried out the same idea. Aft,
er the bountiful repasts the remainder
of the evenings was spent in an in
formal visit. Though the weather was
clustering outside, SO warm and gen.
ial was the welcome accorded the
guests that all forgot the unpleasant
ness outside. Judge and Mrs. Otto
Arnquist of Hudson were out of town
guests Friday evening, and Mrs. The
odore Struck, nee Alice Clark, Satur-
day evening.