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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
Good Chickens Are
Profitable Investment

Washington. D. C.-Ths story
of Reuben Lowe. of North Shap
leigh. Me-, illustrates the posi-
BILE profits from poultry keeping
where careful management is
practiced. During 1913 this
poultryman. who devotes only
part of his time to chicken rails
ing, kept 25O birds, which paid
him a profit over feed cost of
more than $1,000, equivalent to
81 a bird. Included in this
amount are the sales of a few
eggs for Matching, about 80 cock
erels sold for breeding purposes
at $3.50 to S. each, as we'll as
the market eggs, which were dis
posed of in large quantity. Mr..
Lowe keeps White Wyandottes
of strain that wins in the show
ring when judged according to
either the standard of perfec-
ton or utility standard.
One pen of 20 pullets owned
by this Maine poultry raiser pro-
duced eggs as follows: Novem-
Der, 1918, 413; December, 1918.
418; January, 1919. $50; Febru-
airy. 1919, 1926: March, 1919. 45G;
total of 1903 eggs. averaging
1896 eggs per bird in five
months.
1t pays to keep poultry of this
kind, and growers everywhere
are coming to realize that there
is more money in keeping bet
ter fowl and feeding them prop
erly balanced rations than in
wasting time with inferior birds.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
CARRY CT SILVER SAFELY
Trains Cross Continent Without
Loss Of an Ounce.
Mint Director Revealed How Wartime
~ Shipments to India Were
- Handled. 4.

Washington.-Now that the govern.
ment has completed its wartime ship
ments to India of silver from melted
dollars, Director of the Mint Baker
mas disclosed how thousands of tons
OF the metal were hauled from the
Philadelphia mint to San Francisco In
special trains, guarded by armed men,
without loss Of an ounce and without
general knowledge Of the procedure.
Eighteen Of these treasure trains
made the trip across the continent in
the IL months ending last April %,
with the silver like big bricks piled
high In each Of the five express cars
composing special train.
Two men with automatic pistols at
their hips and sawed-off shotguns on
their laps sat in each car, and later
guarded the secret transfer of the
white bars from train to ship at San
Francisco.
Each silver brick weighed about g.
pounds and was worth $1,000, and each
train carried between $5,OOO,OOO and
$lO,OOOOOO of the bricks. Wrecking
Of the trains and, theft of the metal
by bandits was considered an ever
present menace to be guarded against.
Guarded shipments of silver dollars
also were made from the United States
treasury in Washington and from
the New Orleans subtreasury in Phila-
delphia. These dollars travelled in
stout bags Of 1000 each and were
handled much like bags Of sugar, ex-
cept that armed men always were
near
More than 100000 silver dollars
were melted and shipped to India dur
ing the year, to meet urgent war de-
mands for coinage.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
Find Ocean Dusty.

New York.-Is the ocean dusty?
Marines aboard the q. S. S. Pennsyl-
vania, now in port here, will say it is.
The salt in the air crystallizes on
the decks and bulkheads," Corporal
William 81. Allen explained to a re-
porter. 1T is then ground under foot
and becomes dusty, so that, although
we throw overheard a couple Of cans
of dust, there is the same amount the
next time we sweep down."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
MAY DOUBLE. POTASH PRICES
German Syndicate Asks Permit to
Meet Deficit and High
Costs.

Weimar, Germany-The potash
syndicate has asked the government
to grant permission to raise the price
Of potash 100 per cent owing to the
increased cost Of production. The
syndicate says it has a deficit of 49,
100000 marks ($11, 800 0oO) for the
first three months of this year and
declares it will be forced to shut down
unless It can increase It's selling
price.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
Tab for Artificial poa.

Wheeling, w. Va.-Squire A. a. Min
der has decided that the law in Wheel
ing does not discriminate between nat
ural and artificial dogs and James Sell
ers, q music dealer, was ordered to
purchase a tab and place it on the
neck of an artificial dog that he has
standing In the window.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
60-Foot Bone Found
in Canadian River Bed

Winnipeg, Mama huge bone,
60 feet in length, recently was
unearthed along the banks of
the Deer river in Alberta, &C.
cording to information received
here from A. J. Gayle, division
al engineer of the Canadian Ma
tional railway. Mr.. Gayle says
the bone is thought to be part
of the skeleton Of a dinOsaur
and an effort will be made to
find the other parts.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
First Cargo From Greece.

New York-For the first time since
the beginning of the war steamship
arrived here recently with CONNER
cial cargo from Greece. The ship was
the British steamer James Carinya-
limo from Salonika. She brought cur
rants tobacco and liquor.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-09-13
Co. His Goat.

Tay1orville, nl-Earl Bulpitt is an
undertaken. He owned valuable
mounted goats head. Somebody got
his goat. my business is going to
pick up suddenly" predicts Earl. !.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
SOLDIER DEAD TO
: ii BE RETURNED ONLY
BY GOVERNMENT

Washington, Dec. 17.-In an
tnouncing that the government alone
must handle the problem of bringing
back the bodies Of the American
soldier dead from France, the war
department gives a general answer
to thousands of requests that have
come to it and members of congress
from bereaved relatives. Since the
armistice was signed, all members
of the Georgia delegation, for in
stance, have received letters from
tie state asking first for informa-
lion as to plans for bringing home
the soldiers dead and then request
ing that pressure be brought to ex--
pedite the return. Requests also
have come from parents in all Sec
Eions of the country that they. be
permitted to so to France, disinter
the body of a son and bring it home
at the expense of the family in
volved. .... ..g.'
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
sERGT. HILL OF HoNEA
PATH, MISSING IN GULF

Tampa, Fla, Dec. 17.-sergt.
Ionic. W. Hill, Private Edward
scanlan and, Barney Williams, the
latter a civilian employee Of the
lquartermaster department, all of
Fort Dada, have been given up as
drowned. The three men left the
fort Sunday afternoon in a speed
boat for Gulfport on the mainland.
They did not return. Today search
ers found the launch, upended and
half submerged, in the Gulf of MeM-
co, two miles from shore. It is sup
posed the boat over .urned in a gale
that blew out of the northwest Sun
day night.
Sergt. \ Hills home address is
Honea Path, S. c.; that of Private
Scanlan, No. SIT Court street,
Brooklyn, N. Y, Williams. people
live at St. Petersburg, thit State.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
Expected Home for the Holidays.

- . 30 4
The following students from the
various colleges of the state are ex-
pected to arrive home this week to
spend the holidays with their kins-
folk in Abbeville:
Miss Sarah Haigler, Miss Mary
F!aigler and Miss Winona Barksdale,
Coker; Miss Kate Haskell, Miss Lydia
Owen, and Miss Sydelle Graves, Win
throp; Miss Helen Haigler, Miss Mar
garet Cox, Chicora; Miss Elizabeth
Jones, Anderson College; Miss Prue
Mann, Womans College, Columbia; +;
Andrew Hill, William Hughes, Weber
Wilson, Mahlon Cam, Jim Coleman,
and Maxcy Johnson, Clemson; HUI
bert Cox, James Cothran and Minis
Cason, University of S. c.; j. Davis
Kerr, B. M. L.; James Hill and Her.
man Wisby, Erskine; William Cal
vert and Arthur Manning Klugh,
Wofford; Sam Hill, Furman.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
DEBATE I.B'iA I MONDAY N NIGHT

A number Of members of The
higher grades Of the public school
are engaged in aEdebate a in the
opera house Monday night. There
viii be a small admission fee charg-
ed and the proceeds will be givensto
the fund being raised for the ,pur;
chase of play ground equipment for
the schools. Three songs which are
to be sung during the evening were
written by Miss Gwen Bristow, Of
the eleventh grade, and are to be
sung to popular tunes. The debators
will be, Miss Mary Greene and Le-
Roy Cox on one side and Miss Ada
Faulkner and Billy Long on, the
other.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
ONE-FoURTH OF. TAXES
ty HAVE BEEN PAID =
60, Il IN ABBEvILLE COUNTY

County Treasurer J: E. Jones
said Thursday that about one-fourth
of the taxpayers Of the county had
paid. their taxes. There are $500
taxpayers in the county. The time
for paying the taxes expires jan
uary3 and it is hardly probably that
half Of the taxpayers will have paid
by that time. After the first of the
year penalty Of / percent will be
added to the taxes.
The county treasurer has received
notice from the comptroller general
in reference to the collection Of tax
and the penalties that attach, and
the following section Of the law is
quoted:
1 That when taxes and assessments
or any 4 portion thereof +. charged
against any properly or party on the
r,1iea fn f0r the current fiscal wear
:, &, q S,,,;,,517 =, =, .7.h.fors az
8, ,.t. ! ~ 10 g o. ! n ns.a,nhsr ths conrtv,
s;s;a;ta,.s &. i, 5000 - aad 800.
6. ,,,,s 80. -. .s,,t ~ tha oa,,,,t,,
: s,,n,;.sts s ! 1snas II @ tbs conntv trea s,rsr
A. II sa,,aot a. ! IL ,s,.s,,s .nd e the
80 tsxa;s + ;,,, ana assessments M, 3 and
i,erra,t;es are ,ot n,oot pa;d on s. before
& Ithe B first day Of Februarv ne,x,t n,,,
Itha,sa t 81 ar 4 4 ada;t;onal I nana,tv q
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
Couldn't Stand Pressure.

Uncle Jim Stark couldn't stand to
see Col. S. j. Wakefield get the whole
of the Hughes place, near town, at
the small figure which the latter
bought it during the summer. After
good deal of figuring, Col. Wake
field allowed him to keep a half in
terest at the purchase price Of one
hundred and twenty-five dollars per
acre, which figures the tax assessors
will keep in mind when the next
time for assessment comes around.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
SENATE MAY REACH
PACT COMPROMISE
DURING HOLIDAYS

Washington, Dec. t7.-Early
compromise on the peace treaty was
forecast today when an unofficial
conciliation committee Of two sena-
tors practically completed arrange.
ments for a meeting of Republican
and Democratic senator's who favo,
ratification. The meeting, according
TO present plans is to be held during
the holiday period.
The purpose is for Democrats and
Republicans to get together and dis.
cuss in the frankest manner the con.
cessions that they will make. 4
For the second time within weel
Senator Knox, Pennsylvania, today
made an unsuccessful attempt to gel
the senate to consider his resolution
for ratification of the peace treaty
without the league of nations cove.
nant. b
Senator Mcclellan, Tennessee
Democrat, objected, and Knox ther
offered his resolution for separate
peace with Germany. To this Sen
ator Nelson, Minnesota, Republican
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
C. T. TATE BETTER

: G. T. Tate who was seriously in
jured in an automobile accident last
Monday, is reported to be recover
ing rapidly. He was caught between
the seat Of a Ford car and a porch
floor at house on Maple street and
several ribs were broken and his
breast crushed in. Pneumonia was
feared, but DR.. j. E. Pressly, ply
sician in charge, says that he is
practically out of danger now.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
AN AEROPLANE TO VISIT d..
.'. ABBEVILLE TODAY

If the people Of Abbeville will
watch carefully today they will see
an aeroplane fly over the city and
possibly light somewhere nearby. The
pilot of the plane will be S. X. Row.
land, Sumter. The machine will be
driven from Sumter to many points
in the Piedmont section and Able
vile will be one of the towns visit
ed. -.......
The trip is being made in the
interest of an automobile concern
of Sumter.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19

-
ed to, the urgent need of this equip
ment as it is for any good setback
player to win game with Corn,
Kerr for partner. /
However, the superintendent and
teachers were wonderfully encour-
aged near the close of the meeting
Tuesday afternoon when Mrs. Frank
Nickles in her "do-it-or-die" way
made the motion that the superin-
tendent be authorized to order what
equipment he considered necessary
for the needs of the two school
grounds and that the Parent-Teacher
association would assume payment of
the bill. This motion, after enthusi-
astic and favorable discussion, was
unanimously passed. Supt. Fulp later
asked that Mrs. Morse, president,
Mrs. Gambrell, treasurer. and Mrs.
serve as a committee to con-
fer with him about the purchase Of
the equipment.
It is the desire Of the association
that the whole membership of the
association be present at the January
meeting, the 18th, as Supe. W. h.
Hand Of the Columbia City Schools
will address the meeting.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
COAL COMMISSION s,>.i
MUST DECIDE BY
. UNANIMOUS VOTE

Washington, Dec. 16.--When
President Wilson names the mem
bersspof the coal commission on
Thursday he is expected to provide
that no desiS Preached by them
VII be unless it is unani-
NOUS. n sission, it, i is ,.'',1 under, E
Ia permanent tribunal and if sit
operates under the plan which the
president is now considering, it's
activities win not take the course
that DR.. Harry A., Garfield, fuel ad-
ministrator, believed they would. It
was because of his conviction that
the public would represent minor
|ity on the commission that DR.. Gar
field resigned. .s Z
Attorney General Palmer, who
brought the coal strike to an end
when he presented the preside
proposal which was accepted by John
b. Lewis and William Green, the
ranking officers Of the United Nine
Workers of America, will be back
at the capitol Thursday and the
White House announced is await
ing his return.
There will be three members
|of the board, one Of them
representing the miners, another the
operators and third the public.
Dr.. Gaffield thought there was q
community Of interest," between,
the operators and miners which
would show itself in the findings Of
the tribunal. He believed that self
preservation, in the sense that the
more money the operator got for
his coal the more money the miner
would get for his labor would actu-
|ate their representatives on tfe
and that whenever a;yote was taken
the public would be left in the cold.
The president, however, is a great
believer in Quaker meetings. He
proposed at the peace conferences,
both at the sessions Of the council
Of five" and later the "big three" I"
that the members sit down. talk
things over, not vote for publication
at any rate and come to final
agreement on everything discussed.
This same plan, It Is understood,
is the one he has in mind for the
new coal commission. If put into
effect it would entirely eliminate
all the features Of the new body
which were held Objectionable by
DR., Garfield.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
THINGS HAPPENED HERE s.
ON DECEMBER 18th
AS PER SCHEDULE

Early pedestrians we're OF the
opinion Wednesday morning that
falling stars or a bursting meteor,
impelled tofan aberrant, course by
planetary attraction, had caused the
damage to SO much plate glass just
off the Square on North Main Street
during the night. Four hundred
dollars worth Of plate glass was de-
stroyed in four stores Of w. E. John
SON, R. L. Mabry, w. D. Barksdale
and j. M. Anderson. lsss .,[
The prognosticators were right in
predicting dire calamities for Decen-
|ber 17-right as far as Abbeville was
concerned. The hour Of midnight
had no sooner come than things be-
gan to happen. ;.,ss
But an investigation Of the police
docket disclosed the following:
That Julian Wilkinson and Haw-
kins Wilson, loaded, it is said, with
the worst sort Of white lightning,
were on d rampage and after various
disturbances on the Square were
4
placed under arrests about / o'clock
Wednesday I morning by Officers
Cannon and Eakin. Wilkinson, it
appears, broke away from the of
Fficer's and in order to create a
counter disturbance to draw the Of
ficers attention away from Haw-
;kins, proceeded to break out plate
glass, starting at .. NJ. Anderson's
and ending with w. E. Johnson's
'jewelry store. In an attempt, to force
Wilkinson to stop Officer Cannon
fired his pistol wildly several times.
'Wilkinson's aim was more accurate.
After the breakage the two men
were again rounded up and were
being taken TO- jail, when Wilson
slipped out Of his coat and over
coat and ran, BUT later he was
apprehended. Wilkinson was placed
in Jail, where he spent the night,
being bailed out Wednesday morn
ing for appearance at court Thurs
day morning. 80. ss i:@
Officer Eakin received 8 painful
injury to one Of his eyes in the
scuffle to arrest the two men.
Wilson was caught Wednesday af-
terfoon near town at a negro cabin
by Chief johnson and was placed in
the city Jail. g.'.s ~
:" At the trial Thursday morning
Wilson plead guilty to the charges
of drunk and disorderly and resist
ing an officer and was fined by
Mayor Mars s4O0 or 120 days, Of
which half of this amount was sus-
pended or. condition of good be-
havior. - III.
Wilkinson was fined $400, or
l2O days, $500 being suspended on
condition of good behavior.
The scarcity Of plate glass is the
thing that is worrying the mer-
chants whose fronts have been
damaged. It. is said that it will be
from three to six months before
glass can be obtained to replace the
windows. In the meantime the cold
weather makes it imperative that
the windows be boarded up.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
Move In New Home.

Mr.. NJ R, S. Link and family moved
into their new home on Wardlaw
street, the old Renwick Bradley
place, Wednesday. Mr.. Bob Nc
Comb and family will occupy the
house just vacated by Mr.. Link.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
Home For Christmas.

Mr.. Robert G. Hemphill is expected
in Abbeville for the Christmas holi-
days. He comes from Fort Morgan,
Colo, where he has been stationed for
the past several months. The friends
of his youth will be glad to 40 him
again.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
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COTTON MARKET.

December 1S.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-12-19
Going Into Business.

Mr.. Paul Kennedy, a successful
railroad man, has given up his posi-
tion with the Seaboard and after
Christmas will be with the firm of S.
J. Link. His friends wish him great
Success
New Britain herald., 1919-07-15
DANGER OF DISEASE
 EPIDEMIC ABROAD
Lowered Resistance of People
 Offers Germs Chance

London, June 30, Correspondence Of the Associated Press) )-"In the con- dition of chaos in which Eastern Flu rope is at present, famine and fatigue have produced a condition of lowered resistance to infection which favors the reproduction of the epidemics of the Middle Ages" says a writer in the Lausanne (Switzerland) Gabette.
 Prisoners are wandering in East ern Europe on their way to their homes innumerable Russians on their way to the East from Germany, Ger mans, Austrians and Hungarians pass ing from Russia to the West Serbs and Greats striking South, Poles going to the North, crossing one another in indescribable confusion in Poland, the Ukraine, and Hungary The absence of linen and clothing forced these pris- oners to clothe themselves in rags of skins in the same way as the civilian population.
 ''The fight against typhus consists mainly in bathing the men and steril- izing their clothing. The Hungarians possess oVens but no coal; the Czecho- Slovaks have coal but no ovens. Soap and body linen are absent everywhere. Linen when put into the oven is so wretched as to be unwearable after wards and the owner has to be sent away clad in his sheepskin. Prison CTS and wandering civilians know this so well that they take every means to avoid disinfect1on more than anything else; to avoid being stoved at a sta tion they get out of the trains when they stop at the smaller stations and enter the town in small scattered groups which attract less attention.
 "The ordinary mortality of exam thematous typhus in epidemic regions before the war in Eilesia, Poland, Rus sia and Galicia was from to per cent at present it is over 20 per cent It is true that the epidemic has not yet assumed the proportions of cpl demic cholera in India, where in the town of Bombay alone there were 2,295 eaths from January 12 to 25, 1919; but there is a great danger for Europe. All Eastern European states realize this, and though they were at war with one another, yet they sent their delegates to the Budapest con- gross, and decided to place their re- sources in common"
New Britain herald., 1919-07-15
HEIRESS WEDS MAN
 DIVORCED BY SISTER
Mother Announces Lillian EsteIIe Farrell Has Become Capt.
 GOSS' Wife in Paris.

Ansonia, July 15.-Lillian EstelIe Farrell, the 26-year-oId daughter of the late multi millionaire mine owner. Fran&lln Farrell, of this city, married her sisters divorced husband, Capt. George A. Goss of Waterbury, in Paris last Wednesday. Announcement to thls effect was made yesterday after noon by the brides mother.
 Goss and Elsie Marion Farrell were married nine years ago, and made thelr home in Waterbury, Two years later Mrs Goss organized an automo- bile tour and left her husband behind. She was accompanied by Mrs Annie Bassett, sister-in-law, of this city. When they reached Reno the then Mrs. Goss left the party and remain ed there until she secured a divorce. Afterward she made her home in Se- attle, where, it is said, she was mar rled three months ago.
 When the United States entered the war Goss enlisted in the ordnance department and after his arrival in France was promoted to captaincy. His former wife's sister, Miss Lillian went to France as a Red Cross work CT a year ago. Goss is the son of George Goss, owner of the Scovill Manufacturing company, the largest manufacturing concern in Waterbury.
New Britain herald., 1919-07-15
PERSHING TO KEEP
 RANK FOR PRESENT
If He Wants to Retire, Congress Is Expected to Make Him Gen.
 eraI for Life.

Washington, July 15.-Secretary of War Baker made it clear that Gen. Pershing will not be reduced to his regular army rank of major-genera immediately upon his return to this country.
 Gen. Pershing's commission was for the emergency. Now that the A. E. F. is rapidly vanishing through the demobilization camps, Gen. Pershing is expected to sail for home within the next few weeks. His commission will lot expire until President Wilson formally proclaims the emergency ended.
 Secretary Baker could throw no light on reiterated reports of present or prospective friction between Gen. Pershing and Gen. Marsh, chief of staff, and was not prepared to an nounce any plans for Gen. Pershing.
 Some officers who served with Gen. Pershing in France think he may ask for retirement, in which event congress undoubtedly would quickly pass legislation making him a general for life, and giving him the full pay and allowances of that rank. No officer, however, claims to have | heard Gen. Pershing say one word as l to his plans.