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THE C( Queen qu White Bree Black Pum] Summer fo and old. Figured J taffetta sil! erip chiffo Mr. W. B. Cogburn. A man who has proven his effi ciency aid fitness by his record of faithful service, Mr. W. . B. Cog barn, announces his candidacy this week for re-election as clerk of J court for Edgefield county. He I has made a good officer and is very popular with the people. It is his purpose to visit every section du ring the summer and will give an account of his stewardship whenev er an opportunity presents. Have Lights Installed. Now is the time to have your ?tore or residence wired for elec tric lights. While the installation of the plant is being completed, which will consume several weeks yet Mr. W. M. Hariing, superintend ent has been instructed by the board of public works to wire buildings at practically the cost of material, with the actual cost of his time added. Any one desiring to avail themselves of the opportunity .of having the work done cheaply had better confer with Mr. Hariing at once, as he will undertake the work in the order that applications are filed. Monument Unveiled by W O. W. The monument that was recently erected over the grave of the late Dr. W. Luther Jones was unveiled Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock by the members of the Edgefield Camp, W. O. W. Mr. CE.Quarles, the consul commander, directed the -ceremony. About forty of the Woodmen marched ii a body to the cemetery and formed about the grave in the shape of a wedge. Af ter the usual exercises as prescrib ed by the Order for such occasions, Hon. B. E. Nicholson delivered an appropriate address. In the begin ning Mr. Nicholson spoke in detail of the life and achievements of Dr. Jones as well as ef his faithful ness and loyalty as a Woodman. Mr. Nicholson's address was delivered with characteristic earnestness and was well received. Death of Little O. B. Anderson. For several months little O. B. Anderson has been the object of great solicitude on the part of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Ander son, on account of serious and con tinued illness. On Tuesday at 2 .o'clock he pasbed away at the age of four years. He had been a great treasure in the home, for there is no gift so valued, no earthly posses sion more precious than the life of a little child. But God loves them, and takes more of them away from earth than any other age. The throne of God is surrounded with these happy spirits, and there will be no more weeping there, nor sick ness nor sorrow, for God will wipe all tears from their eyes. There is no eloquence of tongue or pen sufficient to portray the sor rows of the bereft parents, and nor : sufficient to show the depths of sympathy which friends would be glad to manifest if they could. We oan but silently commend them to tile Father who cares for these things, knowing that "it is well with the child." The interment took place at the Baptist cemetery at noon to-day, Rev. J. R. Walker officiating. 3RNER SH With Many 1 ality and Drews, :k, White Canvass, pt Black Colonial, otwear for young foulards, tub silks, ks, pongee silks, n, muslin satin, S. C C. L Notes. The Freshman Class of the Col lege entertained the other classes at a most delightful reception on Mon day evening. Novel con tests helped to while away the hours. The Couch Music club was en r tertained at th?'annual banquet in the college parlors on Saturday evening. There will be a recital from the department of music on Friday af ternoon of this week. Resolutions Passed by the John ston Democratic Club No. 2. The following preamble and res olutions were unanimously adopted by the Johnston club: Whereas, Senator B. R. Tillman, having rendered such valuable ser vice to his State and county bv bringing to light many things that were either over-looked or winked at by his predecessors. In his ef forts to readjust the indebtedness of South Carolina to the Federal Gov ernment he found that the Federal Government was indebted to the State of South Carolina for more than three hundred thousand dol lars, and Whereas he made claim and was successful in obtainiag from the Federal Government fifteen thou sand dollars due Newberry college, and j Whereas, his lecturing tour through the North, East and North west was highly appreciated by the people of that section, in his explanation of the race and social questions which seems to have been settled forever. No other Senator or Congressman ever attempted and wedo not believe couldjhave handled these colossal questions as success fully, and Whereas, Senator Tillman's fight on the vital legislation for the south, namely: 1. Interstate Commerce, holding that any state has a right to bar transportation of any objectionable commodity from its borders. 2. The illegal option operations in cotton and grain. 3. The issuance of liquor license in prohibition states and many oth er vital questions that concern his own and other people of the south. Therefore, be it Resolved, That we endorse his course in the United States Senate aid pledge him our support in his re-election. Edgefield County Physician Speaks Out on Dispensary Question. Dear Advertiser: We should be extremely sorry to see any move ment made to re-inamguiate the dis pensary in our county. To put up any argument whatever against it seems but a reflection upon the in telligence of our citizenship. We are a democratic people, and if the majority of our people say by their votes they desire the dis pensary why, the minority must take their own medicine and yield to the wishes of the majority under our self-made constitution, the laws made in accordance therewith. But we believe there is a solemn duty and a grave responsibility resting upon those whose opportunities have been greater than the masses of inaugurating an educational cam paign against whiskey. Our loyal ty to the great profession, which we have the honor to represent would be but mockery should we ??ew Things. E poplins, reps, b muslin, white brown dress'lin en for skirts ar Box pins, bai combs, brushes face cream, to< salt THE CORN remain silent and not raise a voice against the great evil that now threatens to invade our county and our homes. The medical profession of South Carolina and of all the states have inaugurated one of the greatest campaigns Jof preventive medicine ever known in its history, and the laity must know the prevention of whiskey means the prevention of disease. 'Tis true we cannot charge all diseases to whiskey, nor can we charge all crimes to whiskey, but there is so much that can be charg ed to it that we mus' know dispens ing with whiskey will eliminate or prevent much disease. As to the moral of the question we believe we can appropriately leave it to the ministry, and we dare say their guns will be seen and heard in the front ranks of the fir ing lines until the question is dis posed of. W. D. Ouxts. Dr. Manly Timmons Sends a Word of Solicitation to HU Friends of Yore. Editor Edgefield Advertiser: My friends in old Edgefield may think that as I do not reside in the old county now, that I have lost inter est in its welfare. Now let me im press upon your minds at the be ginning that such is not the case. I love old Edgefield, yes I love her people more and more as the years go by, and would never have thought of writing this letter if I did not love the dear old county. Now Mr. Editor, my feeble efforts at writing this letter will be directed against the re-establishment of a dispensary in the dear old town of Edgefield. Doubtless there are many former residents living without its borders who feel just as I do, and while very few of them may attempt to enter their pretest by writing in your valuable paper, I feel confidant that they look upon such a move as a step backward, and if they still had the privilege of voting would cast their vote against its re-e3tablish meat. I don't know why, but after the dispensary was voted out of the town and county, I never dreamed that its citizens would ever want it put back again, and when 1 first read in your paper that an attempt wonld be made to re-open this agent of death and destruction, I was much surprised and I feel as J sit here writing that I would fail in my duty towards all those good friends, both men and wo men if I did not protest against its re-establishment. Is whiskey a curse? Come and make a trip with me to tho orphan asylums of our country. I will show yon children whose fathers may not have died in a drunken spree, but whose days were cut short by the ase of this vile stuff. Come with me to the numbers of workshops of our great cities and look upon the sallow complexion and emaciated forms of widows and young girls who flook at you with sunken eyes and hollow cheeks. Take one of these poor little girls who hasn't enjoyed a wholesome meal for perhaps a year and ask her to lead you to where her father was buried, and I behold a mound of clay with no stone to mark his rest ing place, because there was no money to buy one. Come go with me even to your own neighborhood burying ground and let me point out to you graves whose inmates, if they could speak to you, would say their deaths were [ere are the nar owled 45-inch dress linen, len, Areta lin id suits, .rets, belt pins, toothbrushes oth paste; sea ER STORE hastened by strong drink. Now I have heard men say that conditions are as bad ab th?y were during dis pensary times. Well I deny that such is the case. I know they are bad enough,and this is certainly very un fortunate, but men of Edgeffeld have you ever sat down and given this matter a faithful unbiased in vestigation, or have you simply made this assertion just because you see a drunken man every week or so? I know that while standing in a group of men, I have heard one re mark that there was just aa much whiskey sold now as when we had the dispensary and I have been so thoughtless as to say uyes, it does look so." Now this was speaking without giving the matter serious thought, and I sincerely beg your pardon for allowing myself to join in and sanction sucha remark. How thoughtless we are sometimes! Well, my dear Edgefield friends, let us grant that there is nearly as much whiskey drank now as when the dispensary was going. I will still have the most convincing ar gument that the dispensary is a co lossal evil. I could sit here writing until night, making out a strong argument against its operation and if those who read it were not al ready predetermined, they would have to admit its truthfulness. One tremendous and momentus fact, which I have always tried to cause our Christian citizenship to look at is, that while much whiskey may be sold and drank by the people, it does not receive the sanction of those who wish to uphold the law. This thing of church members and a Christian citizenship sanctioning such a colospal evil by their votes is what makes me feel sad and ab solutely puzzled. Now let me cite you to some things which I witnessed during the days of the dispensary, which I saw with my own eyes and per haps some who read these lines wit nessed also. Here they are. In going in to Edgefield from this side of the county, say parsing Will Reel's about 3 or 4 o'clock in the after noon during the fall when perhaps twenty-five wagons and a good many buggies would be returning from Edgefield, where they had been to carry a load of cotton or cotton seed as the case may be, I would begin meeting wagon after wagon and in many of them would be five or six negroes and often a white man, and I have had to give them the road and be in a hurry about it. Ofttimes some of them would hold up a bottle while my wife and daughters, who perhaps accompanied me, would be looking on, and then they would be cursing and mistreating the mules, and I sometimes wondered how many wo men who very often made the trip by themselves managed to escape being run over by some of these wagons who would often be driving at break neck speed. Gentlemen have you forgotten all this in such a short time? Don't you know that some Saturdays dar ing October that at least a hundred negroes and perhaps half that many white men, would go into Edgefield from this side and the great majori ty of the negroes would step around and get a pint or half pint before they would leave town. Now, on the other hand I had oc casion to make several trips at the same time of the year and at about, the same hour when I would meet perhaps this same orowd, and I could not help remarking on what a wonderful change, there had been. You see the whiskey was so easy to [ANY CUST nes of a few Handkerch Dainty and shu plain line stitched tials in pleasing des embroideries and ] flouncing, 27- am To see will be to it with them. Gracei artistic beauty. get. As it is now, if a man wanta whiskey, he can order what he wants and keep it at his house, and there certainly is not one tenth as much drinking on the highways. You know full well that meeting a drunken crowd of negroes in this way may lead to a serious tragedy, from which, just one case might cost the county more than all the profits they would make from the dispensary in six months, besides the death of some worthy citizen. Oh! how can a man who has a wife and daughters making constant trips to Edgefield from their coun try homes, sanction the re-opening of a dispensary, and at the same time putting a temptation in the way for our sons. I haven't written these lines be cause I think there is any great dan ger of this dispensary being put back for I do not believe it, and have plenty of faith in the chival rous manhood of the men, and faith in the good women of this county of my birth, but to give warning in time to keep down a sentiment that may after a while grow into dan gerous number. May the Lord prosper you Mr. Editor for the uncompromising stand you have taken in this matter, as well as in all matters pertaining to the welfare of Edgefield county and state and I pray that the day will never come when you will be lacking in enough men and God fearing women to back you up and sustain you in every undertaking for the advancement of law and or der and the building of God's king dom here on this earth. I take off my hat to those who have already preceded me in advocating this righteous cause through the columns of Edgefield's staunchest paper. I close this letter by saying to the editor and to the Christian citizen ship of Edgefield county run wit.h patience the race that is before you and trample under foot any symp toms of moral cowardice that may deter you from winning the fight ! for the salvation of our boys. Manly Timmons. Another Expression On the Dispensary Question. Editor Advertiser: I am glad to note through the columns of your paper how some of our voters stand in regard to the re-establishing of a dispensary at Edgefield. I feel like I want to add my influence and co operation. Yes the petition is circulated through the rural districts of the county, and som? of the voters have signed it I guess. It is to those that I wish to make an appeal. "Now men you who take the stand that the re-establishing of the dispensa ry will pay, to you I want to say a few words. Can you conscientiously vote for the re-establishment of the sale of whiskey at Edgefield when you know that it has been your own ruin and all who have drank of your own acquaintance? As far back as you can recall how many men who formed the habit of drink have died Christians? "Why bless my life you will say I don't know but very few ] and I can count them almost by , hundreds that have died drunk- , ards." Let me cite you to one scene that . I witnessed. A most pitiful scene to , me is to see the bread winner of the house going to get supplies when his family didn't have even bread, and looking for the return of hus band and father. "Yes yonder comes old Bob mama, but I don't see pa." I can see how the colors come and iefs r 1-8 1-4 , neat ini igns. New trish effect d 45-inch, ill in love illness and go in that poor woman's face. Yea he is in the wagon lying down. John where is the meal and meat? Can't sit up for he is full of the in fernal stuff that has brought him where he is, and around that poor mother stands four poor little help less children begging for bread. Ah well has Soloman expressed it "wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby ia not wise." Being a voter, I just felt like I wanted the people of the county to know that they may count upon me as being opposed to whiskey. As to school and public highways, I will say that we have better schools and roads now than we had when we had a dispensary. As to blind tigers, the establish ing of a dispensary will aid them, make more, so let us come together and put the monster away from boys, for if we vote for whiskey we may expect nothing but a lot of drunkards out of our boys. The Bible is true and it says "what a man sows that shall he also reap," so if we vote for whiskey we may count on drunkards. I have three boys and if they are raised up to drink I am afraid they will make drunkards. We are in dividually responsible to God for all the acts we do, but we are de pendent one upon another for suc cess, so let us come together if the election is ordered and vote it down. God does not look upon sin with any degree of allowance, and as far b2ck as history reaches we find that He punished the people as a nation, and will continue to rule, so let us get right with God individ ually anr1 be led by him. With my friend of the east side of the coun ty, I can feel perfectly satisfied if we put God first and look to him that we will not have whiskey in old Edgefield again. Geo. L. Timmerman. AA r %dor PORCH SHADES Make your porches comfortable during the summer by using the celebrated Vudor Porch Shades. 1 Ve carry a large supply. Edgefield Mercantile Company Come to us for paints of all kinds for both inside and outside work. B. Timmons.