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RESERVATIONS TO TREATY
NOT LIKED BY ALLIES

Washington, Oct. 2s.-Foreign
governments do not like the reserva-
tions to the peace treaty that have
been adopted by the committee OH
foreign relations of the United States
senate. They are hopeful that the
United States government will never
present the reservations as at present
phrased to the various foreign Offices
of the principal powers for accept
,ance because an awkward situation,
unprecedented in diplomacy might
present itself, for, while the differ
ent governments have no objections
to reservations or interpretations
that define just how America under
stands the treaty to apply or the
provisions Of the League of Nations
to operate, they most decidedly. wish
to be kept free from interference as
betwee., the legislative and executive
departments of the United States
government.
Information as to the attitude
which would be assumed by the
principal powers can be obtained by
inquiry at any Of the foreign Offices
of Europe OF their diplomatic repre-
sentatives abroad because there is
definite feeling that the preamble
adopted by the senate. committee
which would bind Great B-'i!ain,
France, Italy and japan to accept
the America reservations before
they can be valid is em5arrassi 1g. :
Had the senate specified its res
ervatioas and left it to foreign pow
ers 10 remain silent, thereby indi-
eating acquie- -cence, much Of the
difficulty would be removed. Bat the
preamble inaists that the govern
ments of Great Britain, France, Italy
and Japan must express themselves
should the point be pressed by the
senate. It is most certain that some
Of the governments would decline to
say anything on certain of the reser-
vations which they regard as purely
a question of American sovereignty.
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HILLBILLIES GET ACTION.

Gen. J. S. Stark (We always call
man who runs a bank with money
to loan, GeneraD has notified several
of his friends, in due form, of law,
that they are expected to assemble at
his home, which has now turned a lit
tie towards Greenviile Street, this
evening at 7 80, at which hour it is
expected that everybody will be ready
to "eat a snack, and play winning
setback. The General says that he
will not impose nephew on any of
his friends, but that partners will be
selected by lot, and every guest
given an equal chance to flee from
the wrath which is sure to follow
after playing with him as partner.
Maj. Davis, as the guest of honor,
is feeling his most military, and the
man who plays with him may be sure
of having a first class partner, VINO
plays with the cut-out open, and
climbs hills on high.
Following General Stark, in the
noble work undertaken for this even
ing, we will. have Corp. Kerr on deck
(rabbit pie) with Col. Wade S. Goth
ran to follow (possum and taters.)
To the others of the guests we would
say that no man should grow tired in
we'll doing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-10-31

What's the use of taking stock in
oil wells when city property can be
bought in Abbeville for $4,000 and
sold Immediately for $3.50, the first
purchaser reserving half of the land
contained in the original plat, which
he holds probably at twice what he
gave for the whole premises. The
Director of Finance of the Democra-
tic National Committee should be Civ
en- the name of this particular dealer
in real estate, who ought to shell out
at least $1,000 for the continuance
of the people in power who made
such transactions possible Spartan
burg Journal.
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Baby Finger Prints Are Mural
Adornments.


New York, Oct. 2S.-Baby finger
prints on the wallpaper are the finest
examples of mural art. This was the
decision handed down in the Bronx
municipal court of Justice Robitzek,
in dismissing suit to recover alleg-
ed damages because baby had en-
bellished the interior decorations OF
an apartment with frieze all its
own.
"This would be happier world to
live in," the justice said, IF baby
fingers could only make their i'm
print on the hearts of men and wom-
en-, / would rather see the print of
baby fingers on the wall of my house
than have them adorned with the
worlds masterpieces"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-10-31
Cation Selling at 40 Cents.

Cotton was selling in Lancaster on
Friday for forty cents pound, and
Commissioner B. Harris, Of the State
of agriculture, who has
inst returned from day spent IN
Chesterfield county, says ne found
cotton selling there at forty cents for
inch staple, and ss 1-2 cents for
shorter staple. Mr.. Harris says that
cotton is worth fifty cents a pound,
which he contends should be the min
imum price, and urges the farmers TO
quit selling at the present prices.
"The farmers must use common
sense and good Judgment" he says.
"They have the situation in their
hands if they will hold it. Again l
repeat my last winter slogan: Sit
steady in the boat. Cotton would be
cheap at so cents. Mark my words.
The time to start to fixing the price
of the 1920 crop is today. Get
ready to plant plenty of wheat and
oats and barley and other grains,
and get reasonable amount of live
stock to start the year. Then what
cotton you plant will be surplus and
you can market it as you wish. Next
May cotton will be bringing-oh,
we'll, I am afraid to say what I think
for fear that I will be misunderstood.
But, mark my words, cotton will
bring the price it should have-and
for the first time in cotton history"
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Linen Shower.

Mt. Carmel, S. Co., Oct. 25.TThe
linen shower given in yof Miss
Sara Boyd, by Miss Maggie Suther-
land, on Friday afternoon, October
I17, proved to be beautiful social
event.
Miss Sutherland's home, which was
thrown open with gracious hospital
fity, was artistically decorated in
white chrysanthemums and graceful
ferns.
In a corner of the hall a punch
bowl was hidden in bank Of ferns
jinterspersed here and there with
white chrysanthemums. ./As the guetss
Ientered they were ushered to the
punch bowl by Mrs. w. A. Scott, and
were served delicious frappe by
Beatrice Pruitt and Juanita Curtiss.
After everyone had assembled in
the living room, Miss Annie Mae
Murray, an attendant of Anderson
College, acting as an old black man.
my, entered saying she had heard
there would be a "Shower" that aft
ernoon so would fetch in the Linen
beforehand. She presented her bas-
ket to Miss Boyd, and as the bride
elect admired her lovely gifts "Mam.
my" joined in with praise. After
this, cards bearing crooked marks
were passed with pencils and each
guest was asked to add more to these
marks and draw something for the
brides house. The contest was an
amusing one-and was enjoyed by
all. 49,
An ice course followed by green
and white mints;was served by little
Irene Boyd and Hessie Morrah.
Those who had the pleasure of be-
ing Miss Sutherland's guests we're:
Miss Marie Leslie, Miss Eliza Gown,
Miss Bessie Jones, Miss Ethel Sharp,
Mrs. J. T. Scott, Miss Dora Black,
Miss Florence Black, Mrs. H. w.
Boyd, Mrs. Lawrence Hester, Miss
Emile Mae Hester, Miss jamie Le-
Roy, Mrs. W. B. Knox, Miss Susie
Patterson, Mrs. P. B. Morrah, Miss
Jenna Boyd, Mrs. H. D. Brown, Miss
Mildred Boyd, Miss Reba Wells, Mrs.
w. o. Gown, Miss Robbie Gown, Mrs
J. w. Boyd, Miss Helen Cabal, Mrs.
w. A. Scott, Miss Fannie Mae
Wright, Miss Edna Smith, Miss Co.
rinne Smith, Miss Maggie Brough,
Miss Rebecca Wardlaw, Miss Eliza
beth Wardlaw, Miss Catherine Gilbert,
Miss jamie Lee Morrah, Miss Isabelle
Nc Bride, Miss Louise Mcbride and
Miss Gertrude Morris. \
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1919.
THE NEW COTTON MILL.

If the attitude of those business
men who attended the meeting last
Tuesday morning is any indication Of
the sentiment of the business men in
this town, taken as whole, then we
will build a new million and half
dollar cotton mill.
T If we have correctly sized up the
situation the people believe that Mr..
Jas. p. Gossett is the kind of business
man they desire to head the enter
prise and pilot the movement.
The City of Ahbeville has, we be-
lieve, taken on new life. It might
have done so twenty years ago, and
not taken a position in the back
ground of progress. Ten years ago
another mill might have been built,
and could have been built, if the
faith of the business men had been
as strong as the judgment of some
of us. But it is never too late to do
good, nor for city to grow. Grow
we must, and grow we will. Young
men are>at the front now who have
caught a new vision for the best and
most historic of the Piedmont towns.
They will make it the most progress
sive.
A meeting of all the citizens OF
the town. and of the citizens living
in the county who are like-minded
with US, will be held in the Court
House at an early date, to which
meeting Mr.. Gossett has again been
invited. The information which was
given to a few people at the meeting
Tuesday will be given to the public,
and a decision will be reached as to
the steps to ps taken.
II would be fine thing if the, peo-
pie would at that meeting pledge a
half million dollars in stock subscrip-
tions to the proposed corporation,
and if definite steps were then and
there taken to make the industry a
reality. 1t may be done if every man
will in the meantime take the full
measure of his ability to help, and if
every man, setting an example for his
neighbor, and not waiting to see
what others will do, shall come for
ward and give full arms blow for
Abbeville,
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most important in point Of construc-
tive plans that are to be formulated.
The last day of the convention, it
was announced at Campaign head
quarters here today, will be devoted
entirely to the Baptist rs Million
Campaign, and in order that this
may be done the regular business will
be concentrated in the sessions of
the two previous days. Fhe discus
sion of the Campaign, which is to BE-
held November 80 to December 7.
will no doubt be the chief feature of
the Convention, however, as this
drive is the greatest ever attempted
by the denomination.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-10-31

Washington, Oct. 29.-Although
congress recently passed an.act call
ing for a special cotton report as OF
October 81, a month later than usu-
al, the department Of agriculture ad-
vises Senator Harris that the report
cannot be entirely completed because
Of a mix-up over comparative figures
and the method of taking the census
Since this is the first report made so
late in the season, the department.
savs. there is no basis on which to
calculate report Of cotton in bales
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STATE BAPTIsTs CONVENTION

Greenville, S. c., Oct. 2S.-Many
Baptists from all parts of South
Carolina are planning to attend the
State Baptist Convention to be held
in Columbia November 10. II and
IL. Leaders in this body anticipate
the largest convention ever. held in
point Of attendance and one of the
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-10-31

Abbeville is picking up. The, Press
and Banner says: "A great many peo-
pie Qn Abbeville) these days, it
would seem, are learning how to have
soup for dinner and to eat olives. -
Spartanburg Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-10-31

There is talk now of forming an
Abbeville Society in Spartanburg, so
many excellent people having come
here from that county to live and
build up this great City of the Pied.
mont.-Spartanburg Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-10-31
BOUGHT AND SOLD SAME
DAY-FOR A PROFIT

]. S. Stark bought from William
McNeill Thursday, fifty acres near
town, the price paid being S7l1o. He
sold the property the same day to j.
S. Banks for $7750, profit Of 5000.
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GENERAL NEWS. .
Confident Of Strike.

Miami, Fla, Oct. 90 Labor
leaders today express confidence that
the vote being. taken among the $500
members of local unions will favor
calling a general strike, though the
vote will not be counted before Mon
day night. No conference between
employers and labor has been arrang-
ed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-10-31
Buys Williams College Property.

P. Rosenberg has bought the Will
liams College property near Fort
Pickens, containing AZ acres, the
price paid being $500.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-10-31
"These Rats Wouldn,t Eat My Best
GRAIN" Says Fred Lamb.

It's hard to keep rats out OF feed
store. Tried for years. A neighboring
store sold me some RAT9SNAP. It
worked wonders. Gathered up dead
rats every morning. Bought more
RAT-SNAP. Haven't a rat now.
They wouldn't eat my best grain
when I threw RAT-SNAP around.n
Three sizes, 25c. SOC: $1.0O. Sold and
guaranteed by P. b: Speed and The
Rosenberg Mercantile Co.-Ady.
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WANTS

FOR SALE:-Seed barley and rye at
SITS per bushel, also Texas Red
rust-proof seed Oats at $1.00.
1o-e1-2t S. j. LINK.
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Candies always fresh at
ustin-Perrin Drug Co. .
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WHEN IN NEED-of a good plum
ber. Phone 349. ]. E. NORRIS.
.1O-31-3t.Pd.
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Engraved cards and wedding inyi-
ations at Press and Banner Co. #
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FOR sALE:7one secondhand one
horse wagon in good condition.
1O-31-2t. ). j. Linn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-10-31

FOR SALE:-Carload pure wheat
bran, $2.75 per loo lbs. or $4,000
per ton. S. J. LINK.
>10-31-2t.
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~ DIDITS BEST
FOR ARMY, SAYS
GEO. W.PERKINS
Admits Mistakes, but Shows
Works Magnitude Made
Them Inevitable.
INVESTIGATOR REPORTS
Points Out Gifts Of Canteen
Supplies Would Have Halted
Its Other Services.
INVESTIGATOR REPORTS

To every one of the hundreds Of
thousands OF persons who with their
dimes and dollars made possible the
work of the Y. NJ. C. A. with the
American forces across the Atlantic and
who are entitled to know how wisely
and we'll the money was spent is ad-
dressed report made public yesterday
by George w. Perkins.
Mr.. Perkins Is chairman of the
finance committee OF the Y. NJ C. AS
War Work Council. In December, when
criticism of the "Y'' was being voiced
among returning soldiers. the executive
committee sent Mr.. Perkins abroad with
Mortimer l.. Schiff. F. S. Brockman and
John r. Hail. Their job, as Mr.. Perkins
says, was to make study of the
work and do everything possible to fur
Their its efficiency" After four months
OF travel and observation Mr.. Perkins
got back few days ago.
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PREDICT U. S. WET TILL 1921.
Speakers Cheer Conference of Re-
tail Liquor Dealers.

ATLANTIC CITY. May s.-At the twenty
sixth annual conference OF the National
Retail Liquor Dealers Association. which
began here to-day. several speakers
cheered the delegates by expressing the
belief that the United States would re-
main wet" for at least a year after
January 1s. 1920. when the constitu-
tional prohibition amendment goes into
effect.
William Seckel OF Chicago, president
OF the association. told the conference
that tho country IL really against the
closing Of the saloons on July I. He
declared that two-thirds Of the soldiers
returning from overseas are In favor Of
the French custom OF drinking. and hope
to apply here the lesson they learned
abroad.
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FIGHTS Y0NKERs TROLLEY.
Henry Roster Opposes Nickel Raise
Outside City Limits.

Henry Roster, formerly Supervisor of
Yonkers, and other residents Of that
city started legal action before Justice
Joseph Morschauser in the Supreme
Court at White Plains yesterday to pre-
vent the YonkerS Railroad Company
from charging an additional nickel for
trolley ride outside tho city limits.
Justice Morschauser said he would
hear arguments to-day upon the ques-
ton OF whether the company shall pro-
vide rebate slips for refund of fares IN
case the decision goes against the COM
pany.
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II Killed and 40 wounded.

THAT the workers as a whole were
brave and unselhsh is shown by the fact
that fourteen Y. NJ. C. A. secretaries
were killed and 1875 others were
wounded"
Gen. Pershing on August 30, 1917
asked the y. NJ. c. A. to undertake the
management OF the army canteens. Mr.
Perkins has this to say OF the canteen
service:
The difficulties were many. II was
extremely difficult to get supplies as we'll
as TO get men who were accustomed to
handling. distributing selling and ac-
counting for such supplies. There was
time when the war was at its height
: that 1t cost the Y. NJ. c. A. almost as
much to get an automobile from the
United States to France as the automo-
bile itself cost in the United States. The
same was true OF canteen supplies one
day we could get supplies sent on a
Government boat without freight
charges. The next day the only way TO
send them was TO pay almost as much
freight as the goods cost. It will be
readily seen that It was almost impos-
siple to arrive at anything like an aver
age cost price at which to sell these
goods.
Goods shipped by the Government
and goods shipped by the Y. NJ. C. A..
because of the chaotic conditions that
existed at points of debarkation In the
early days OF the war. were occs sionally
mixed up with goods shipped by indi-
vtduais as pure contributions TO be given
away TO soldiers.
'-The Y. M. G. A. never solicited money
for the purpose Of giving away its can
teen supplies. II the Y. NJ. C. A. had
given away canteen supplies in France
on the scale of It's sales II would have
spent in this activity alone at least as
much money as It's entire expenditure in
France for all Its activities The con-
slant policy of the Y, NJ. C. A. was to
sell canteen supplies at as nearly cost as
possible and to bend every effort. when
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than to use the money in giving away a
larger quantity Of cigarettes, chocolates
and other similar articles?"
The '"Y" had to turn manufacturer az
we'll as distributor of supplies. In
France, Mr.. Perkins says. II supplied raw
materials to twenty biscuit. thirteen
chocolate, three candy and eight Jam
factories. supervised the manufacture
! and took the entire product 1t had to
transport -four for biscuits, tins for cans
pulp for paper and even mucilage for
the envelopes which It made. The whole
town of Tolosa, Spain, devoted itself to
manufacturing writing paper for the Y
NJ. C. A. Moro than 4o0.0o0.o0o sheets
Of writing paper. with envelopes. and
16 ,o00, 900 post cards were distributed to
soldiers.
On March I this year the organiza-
ton had in use in France 6S7 buildingt
erected by itself, 5s6 under lease and
1872 centres in tents and army buildings
All these buildings are at tho disposal
Of all the other religious and social well
fare organizations, without charge &c
! anybody.
The athletic department of the Y. NJ
c. A. has not only sent to France many
trained instructors, but in 1913 and 1915
provided more than 2,260,000 athletic
articles, including $4,000 baseballs. 14o.
| 900 bats, $1,000 felders gloves. $4,000
indoor baseballs and $4,000 footballs. al
given to soldiers
Mr.. Perkins describes tho scale of tho
the various forms OF entertainment al
Colossal" In theatres scattered ovei
France are seen the best plays that car
be obtained. without expense of any
kind to the soldiers. In the year ended
March 27, 1919, the Y. NJ. c, A. had 10:
American and 220 French entertainers
and the attendance at the vaudevill,
shows alone was 100000.
In March OF this year ninety-nvt
American troupes were playing ir
France for the Y. NJ. C. A. In addition
professional talent Is employed to or
ganize soldier shows. Between August
1917. and April. 1919. more than 10000
motion picture shows were given before
spectators aggrregatinS $4,000. 900. ant
more than 100000 feet Of Aim has beer
sent to France.
mot a cent of admission has beer
charged" Mr.. Perkins remarks. ''rhest
entertainments have dispelled the dreary
evenings OF the homesick boys and havi
done much to maintain their norma
mental condition. The scope OF the pic
lures il very wide: whatever Is virilt
and inspiring. helpful and wholesomely
entertaining. as we'll al sheer fun ant
nonsense so long as II is clean, and edu
cational films. where they can be used t.
advantage"
| Runs Its Hotel at . Loss.
He speaks of the Y. NJ. C. AS en-.
deavor to supply a substitute for HON,
when the American soldier gets a fur
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cleveIand-oh,c.so Air Mail Soon

WARRINGTON. May 8.-Air mail SER
vice between Cleveland and Chicago will
be established May Is. with trips daily
except Sunday. In announcing the dates
to-day the Post once Department said
the service would be extended from
Cleveland to New York as soon as the
manufacturers delivered SUFFICIENT ma
chimes
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RENO, Frank, K. eSth st. (K).
KENTUCKY.
wHITTLB. James, ELI tK).
MINNESOTA.
BARSTAD. John. Grygla tK).
K1RCHENBAUER, Fred. Clearlake (K).
MONTANA.
CHEZUM. Richard. Garland (K).
PENNSYLVANIA.
MANFARDINO. Pavlo. Mantigio (K).
VIRGINIA.
GREEN. Samuel. Faber (K).
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WARRINGTON, May 6.-The following
casualties have been made public by the
War Department:
ARMY.
Character of casualties is Indicated thus:
(K) Killed in action; (Dw) died Of wounds;
(DA) died OF accident or other causes
tDD) died of disease; (W) wounded Sc
verely; (wS) wounded slightly: (WU)
wounded, degree undetermined; (N) miss
ing: (P) prisoner.
NEW YORK CITY.
LANE. Holmes, Canarsie, BROOKLYN tK).
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A Word with Your
Twenty-four Dollar Island

I COME down from mountain to your twenty
L four dollar island Peter Mnuit bought for
twenty-four dollars, which is raising forty thousand
dollars minute now, all day, all night three weeks,
for America for the fate of world.
Everybody knows what New York banks can do
What everybody wonders is-what crowds in
the streets of New York will do
In Germany the Kaiser and others have
marked with thousand guns, with poisonous gas
and submarines, with four million dead men, that
crowds cannot do things.
Forty nations and the crowds in the streets of
hundred thousand cities have leaped up around a
world to deny it,
Inch by inch back through the door of the hell
they had made for u.s. into the hell they had made
for themselves, crowds have driven back Germans!
The crowds in the streets of New York have cast
like cast like a sacrament the sacred soil
of France thousand dead to prove that
crowds Think that crowds can be deep, that
crowds be sincere and do things!
I down from my mountain to look up to
the crowds in the streets
I have the crowds stand in The Avenue
and weep! I have the crowds stand in The
Avenue and cheer!
The world is watching the crowds this week
in New York!
Forty nations, oh, crowds of New York. are look
ing in your faces!
by following members the
GLOVE TRADE
FRANKIE Bucket Levi. & Locke
chard Burne Lhtauer Brothers
J. NJ Chanut & Cie LouisM Meyer. Son
DentA v. & Gle
Bro.& L. Schwartz
coe''ins Fe"e wimelb.eher & Rice