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Office No. 61. Residence, No. 17. WEDNESDAY, JULY 24. 1912 LOCAL AND PERSONAL, Bright, Spicy Gleanings Pu: in Condensed Form for the Benefit of Our Busy Subscribers. Dr. A. H. Corley made a busi ness trip to Atlanta Monday. Miss Mary King of Greenville is the guest of Miss Rosalie Parker. Mrs. Lovick Smith has been spending the past few days in Au gusta. Miss Annie May Atkinson of Au gusta, is visiting Miss Mamie Oheatham. The Supervisors of Registration will meet at Johnston in the store of M. R. Wright & Bro., the first Tuesday in August. Col. S. B. Mays told The Adver tiser's representative Monday that the peach season has closed and that no money was made this year. Miss Alberta Lucas of Aiken and Miss Margaret McAuliffe of Augus ta are guests of Misses Iris and Clair Grice. The Advertiser job office is pre pared to do printing of all kinds in the most approved manner. Satis faction guaranteed on every job sent out. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Turner, ac companied by Miss Madge, have ' been ?pending the past week at the Isle of Palms enjoying the surf and sea breezes. Master William Walton Mims carried his father and mother down io Johnston Sunday to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. William T. "Walton. Mrs. Henry W. McKie of Col liers was among the visitors in Edgefield Monday. She was accom panied by her oldest son and little -daughter. Mr. M. A. Taylor is having ex tensive improvements on his resi dence on Columbia street, which when completed will add greatly to the appearance of the place. To-day great multitudes of peo ple of all ages and from all climes are holding forth At Centre Spring. Capt. Blocker and his co-workers liad everything ia ship shape for the annual picnic. Thursday, August the first, is the day set for the Hussar picnic at Lanham Spring, and everything pertaining to the annual occasion will come up to the usual high standard. The ladies of the mission society of Fern's Cr^ek church will sell ice cream and cake at the home of Col. S. B. Mays Saturday afternoon, the 10th of August, commencing at 4 o'clock. The Advertiser extends congratu lations and greeting from Edgefield to Dr. and Mrs. B. Frank Jones. The Stork visited their home on the 14th inst, and left a little girl which is row the idol of the fond parents. A detailed apportionment of the public school funds of the county is published in this issue. By re ferring to the statement patrons and trustees can find what amount has been apportioned to their dis trict. Mr. W. T. Walton ?aya he has the finest crop that, he has ever had at this season, both cotton and corn. His cotton is locked in four-feet rows and is well fruited. His corn is planted in four-feet rowe and from 10 to 14 inches in the drill. The ears are heavy and will nearly make two to the stalk. Very soon another old building, one of the landmarks of the town, will give place to a residence that will be modernly appointed. Maj. T. J. Lyon will soon tear away the W-oodson house near the college and erect a handsome residence on the beautiful corner lot which he now owns. George Adams, Vivian Miras and Paul Cogburn have our sympa thy. Poor fellows, they are near death's door, and we think the pic nic to-day and the dance to-night will complete the job. This trio of young sports have been trying to do the gallant and knightly part by all of the near-hundred pretty girls in town and it is about to re sult in nervous prostration, accom panied by serious heart complica tions. Calhoun A. Mays, Esq., is d< for a few days from Greenwood MIPS Kate Chapman of Salud the guest of Miss Lillian Smitl Miss Margaret Matsen of Col bia is visiting at the home of '. R. L. Dunovant. Misses Pearle Ivy and fi Blanch Rose of Timmonsville guests of Mrs. E. C. Bailey. Miss Annie Gn-.en will arrive I afternoon to be the guest of ^ Ellen Durovant Miss Margaret Collins of R lins,and Miss Lillie Robinsoi Augusta are guests of Miss Nat Padgett. We carry in stock 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 s 10 inch gandy belting, four and ply. We can save you money. Stewart & Kernaghan Rev. and Mrs. E. T. Snuggs i their three interesting children : spending *his week out at Red I with Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Littlejol On account of the press of bi ness matters Mr. George W. Quar has withdrawn from the race : supervisor of registration. The Advertiser has not made actual count of noses but there a something like three score and 1 pretty young ladies visiting in Edi field. Mrs W A Byrd and her lit ones have returned from Longmir where she visited her parents wh Mr Byrd was seeing the sights New York Thus far Mr. Manly Dobson the champion watermelon grow of this section. He has alrea< brought four wagon loads to to\ and disposed of them without ai trouble. Miss Florence Mounce of Augi ta is the guest of Miss Virginia A dison, having come up to attend tl Centre Spring picnic and the dan to be given in the opera house t night by the Edgefield Rifles. Mr. J. A. Townsend who h succeeded Mr. C. E. Johnson as tl local agent of the Southern rai road has moved his family in the house on Columbia street fe merly occupied by Capt. Martin. Capt. N. G. Evans was called i Washington, D. C., Tuesday afte noon on important business. I will return in time to make h maiden speech of the campaign J Republican church Saturday. FOR SALE: My farm of IS acres in the Red Hill section, ac joining land of Dr. W. E. Prescot Five-room dwelling, good bar with nine stalls, good water an pasture, etc. Edgefield, S. C. C. E. Quarlei The editor of The Advertiser ai knowledges an invitation from hi little friend, Tee Bailey, to atten a barbecue that was held at Fla Rock school house last Saturday Through a delay of some kind th invitation was not received unti Saturday night. Mrs. T. H. Rainsford, Mrs. J. T Mims, Mrs. Hallie Greneker, an< Misses Sophie Mims, Mamie Duno vant and Elise Lake attended th missionary convention of the Co lumbia district that was held a Ridge Spring last Saturday ant Sunday. Mr. E. P. Arthur who has beei making his home in Kissimmee,Fla. has moved to the farm of his lat< father Mr. H. G. Arthur. The plac? is better known as that of the lat< Henry B. Gallman. The Edgefielc friends of Mr. Arthur welcomt him back to his native heath. Dr. J. S. Byrd has returned fron his vacation of two weeks in tin mountains. He was accompanied by Mrs. Byrd who has recovered entirely from her prolonged illness, She and little Fitzmaurice will re turn to Edgefield Monday. A cor dial weicome awaits them. Mr. and Mrs. Bettis Cantelou left Sunday for Lexington to spend 10 days with Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Wil son. While in the heart of the blue grass belt of Kentucky Mr. Cante lou will purchase 8 or 10 high class Kentucky horses. Any one who de sires a horse of this class should see the Kentucky thorough bred s when they arrive. The writer passed two prize acres of corn Sunday. Both are very fine. The first was that of Mr. J. Trapp McManus which if favorable con ditions continue for a few weeks will make a very large yield. The next acre was that of Mr. John P. Hoyt. His too was exceedingly promising. It is planted very close and the stalks are heavily "fruited." The Advertiser is expecting to have excellent reports from these two "crack" farmers. Miss Carrie Matthews of Orange burg is visiting Mrs. J. C. Hughes. Mrs. Susan B. Hill is in Abbe ville visiting her sister, Mrs. Wade Cothran. From Abbeville Mrs. Hill will go to the mountains of North Carolina to remain until the early fall. Capt W A Collett will leave to morrow morning at nine o'clock with the Edgefield Rifles, about 40 strong, for thu annual encampment at Anniston, Ala. They will be in camp about ten days and will re turn the 4th vf August If you hear something that sounds like cannonnading or distant thun der from the southwest Saturday about the noon hour, do not be un duly disturbed. It will only be the initial speeches of the county cam paign. All of t he candidates are well groomed for the Republican meet ing, rather the Democratic meeting at Republican church. Speeial Notices We have anything you want in a nice Run-a-bout in several makes and prices. Wilson & Cantelou. Large stock of wire screen doors and windows jost received. Stewart & Kernaghan. Fresh shipment of Harris Lithia Water and Ginger Ale, at B. Timraons. Full stock of matting and mat ting art squares,'all new and up-to date patterns. Full stock of rugs and art squares. Ramsey & Jones. We are now representing Tyson & Jones Buggy Co. You know what their buggies are. Wilson & Oantelou. Our prices on wire screen doors and windows is very reasonable. See us before buying. Stewart & Kernaghan. Summer hats at nearly half their real value. Just a few pretty ones to select from. The Corner Store. For the balance of the season we will give cut prices on men's low quarter shoes. Rives Bros. 5 or 6 doses 666 will break and case of Chills & Fever; it acts on the liver better than Calomel, any does not gripe or sicken. 25c. Everything in the undertaking line from the ch<?ap poplar coffin to the finest metalic case. Ramsey & Jones. Medium priced undermuslins, women's drawers of cambric with frills and tucks, others trimmed with yalencine laces, all to go at the one price 25c pair. The Corner Store. FOR SALE-My farm of 60 acres within one mile and a half of Edgefield. Good 7-room dwell ing, tenant house, all necessary outbuildings, pasture, etc. T. W. Rearden. Rub-My-Tism will cure you. Notice-Automobile rain proof duters &5. Also gloves, caps a full line. Write F. G. MERTINS, Augusta, Ga. FOR SALE: A 15-horse power Fairbanks-Morse special gasoline engine. It is as good as new and will be sold at a bargain. J. R. Cantelou. Scholarship For Sale The Advertiser has a scholarship in Draughn's Business Colle./e that is authorized to sell for less than the regular price. Any young man orjoung lady desiring to take a course in Bookkeeping, Stenogra phy or Typewriter should not miss this opportunity. Apply at once at this office. Insect Bite Costs Leg. A Boston man lost his leg from the bite of an insect two years be fore. To avert euch calamities from stings and bites of insects use Uuck len's Arnica Salve promptly to kill the poison and prevent inflamma tion, swelling and pain. Heals burns, boils, ulcers piles, eczema, cuts, bruises. Only 25 cents at Penn & Holstein's W E Lynch tfc Co. SPECIAL NOTICE. The Business College now being conducted at Augusta, Ga., under the Draughon name is not author ized by Draughon's Practical Busi ness College Co. For catalog of Draughon's Big Chain of Colleges, address Jno. F. Draughon, presi dent, Nashville, or Knoxville, Tenn FARMER PLOWS BY DYNAMITE Alabama Man Finds Method More Sat isfactory and Profitable-Rips Up the Subsoil. Is the plowboy going to , be dis placed by the man with dynamite? Perhaps not Immediately, but it ls a fact which is receiving a good deal of attention at present that plowing by dynamite'for certain solis ls a vast Improvement over the old system which has come down to us from time Immemorial. Down In Alabama a farmer named Johnson tried both methods and found dynamite the more satisfactory and profitable. All his life, until last year, since he first became a tiller of the soil-and he now is 57 years-he plow ed his land in the old way and never succeeded In raising more than one bale of cotton to the acre. Last year he experimented with dynamite, and the yield of cotton was Increased to four and a half bales. Mr. Johnson says that with a little ?nore care in using dynamite for plowing and with a. little more fertilizer he would be able to raise five bales to the acre. The reason--why dynamite ls supe rior to the old method of plowing is because it rips up the subsoil, thereby adding greatly to the fertility of the rand and permitting the roots of plants to find nourishment at a much greatev depth than ls possible with the old method of cultivation. And thus while in large part solving the drought problem by enabling the plant roots to find moisture deep in the earth, plowing by dynamite also disposes of insect pests by destroying them with in a considerable radius of the ex plosions. That dynamite plowing will come into more general use ls the opinion of those who have given se rious thought to the subject Preparation of Soil. A thorough preparation of the soil before planting is absolutely essential to success in farming. Large plows and strong teams accomplish three or four times as much a? the one-mule plows and do rt much better. Harrows ought to be used freely at all times. Good Hen's Nest. The bee's boxes may be covered with a hinged lld to facilitate tb? gathering of eggs, but this-must b? sloping to prevent the hen? from standing on it EXCELLENT WIRE FENCE STAY Strength lc Greatly Enhanced by Us? 0 of Piece of Wire, While Also . Serve* M Arrester. m- - Instead of using the common wood rtay between each post in building ie ordinary wire fence, if a short piece of wire is used the strength of the fence can be greatly enhanced, >eside9 adding a good lightning. ar rester, by the grounding it gives the lenee. The piece of wire should be it-Vj i.r.'.-.V<-- tn yV. .-j gsjg Wire Fence Stay. long enough to make a loop about six inches in length; this should be bent JO as not to pull out without bringing '.he entire loop up through the ground. When the grass roots get -a good rxowth through lt the stay ie there for ?ood, especially If it is of galvanized wire. Set the loop end In the ground ibout the same depth as the posts. Sive the stay a turn around each wire jf the fence. SPRING PASTURE FOR HOGS Jwari Essex Rape Makes Quick Rank Growth In Rich, Well Prepared Land-How to Feod. DwarD Essex rape makes a most jxcellent spring pasture for hogs, rt resembles collards very much in ippearance, and makes a quick rank ?rowth on rich well' prepared land. :t will make a-complete failure on joor land or on land that is not well prepared. Plant about the same time as cot ton in drills about two feet apart. Ose two or three pounds per acre and ;ultivate shallow. Turn the hogs on it when the plants are about one foot high, and let them Btay about thirty minutes In the morning and thirty minutes in the evening and feed about two pounds of corn to every 100 pounds of hogs. Rape has a high feeding value, but no pasture will more than maintain hogs Munlclp-I Reform In Georgia. For several years there has been a law forbidding the running of bulls loose- on the streets. This law has not been enofrced for several years, but lt does seem that lt should now be enforced, as there are several such animals now at large.-Blacksb^ear Times. And Then They Blame the Luck. Opportunity has knocked at many a man's door when he was down at the corner saying "Here-s good luck." Editor Advertiser:-Desiring to learn how our public men stand with reference to matters of interest to the farmers I wrote a letter to the General Counsel of the Farmers Union and in reply received the following: C. S. 'BARRETT, Pres., W. CALLICOTTE/V.-Pres., A. C. DAVIS, Sec. Treas. Union City Ga. Carbondale, Col. Texarkana, Texas. FARMERS EDUCATIONAL AND CO-OPERATIVE UNION OF AMERICA. Offiice of J. H. PATTEN, General Counsel. Washington, D. C., July 8, 1912. Mr. J. W. Stewart, President, Bamberg Local Union, F. E. & C. U. of A., S. C. Div. Bamberg, S. C. Dear President Stewart:-Your letter of the 5th instant, at hand., and I hasten to assure you that it is alwaj'S a pleasure as well as a duty to serve any official or member of the Union at any time, in any matter of this kind that I can. You ask about the record, sympathy, and attitude of Hon. Jas. F.. Byrnes of your congressional district, and I am very happy to be able to say that we regard him as one of the very best of the new congressmen. There is no question about his ability, his capacity, his sympathy, and his interests being where they should be, and I know of no reason what soever why we should not be quite satisfied with his record so far, be cause it bespeaks a much greater field of usefulness and effectiveness in the right direction, if he is re-elected. As you probably know, it takes the new congressman all of his first term to get the "hang of things," but Congressman Byrnes seems to have "caught on" from the very start. For instance, he seems to have been picked out at once by the . House leaders as a maa of marked ability and dependence, for he was selected by Congressman Sh&okleford of the Ways and Means Commit tee to assist in getting the good roads bill out of the Committee and' through the House as a rider to the Post Office Appropriations Bill the bil! even being referred to here and in the press frequently because of his efforts as the "Byrnes Bill." And in this connection it is inter esting to note that the Democratic National Convention at Baltimore last week wrote the principle of the bs*l into its platform as a plank. It not only wrote that bill into its platform but also others like anti-gambling,, vocational education and general parcel post, ou which Congressman Byrnes has been in conference time and again with and of great assist ance to the Union's National Legislative Committee and the representa tives of the Union here. It is service of this kind that counts most. It is assistance in an advisory way, in arguing for our measures with members of Congress privately in and out of the il o use, in continually being "on the job," that is all important and most effective. Any member can get up on the floor and deliver a tirade against the corporations, the Cotton gamblers,. and work himself into an oratorical fit over us and our measures, and then go oft, quietly work and demagogically take the opposite side. What we want is results, and no man among the new men here are more effective in helping us to pave the way for real results than Con gressman Byrnes has been this Congress, and the need, as you know, ig urgent even with this House. The Congressional Record shows his faithful attendance in the House, and that his votee, with one exception, have been all that could be asked for, as far as the legislation the Farmers Union is asking, is concerned,, and his vote upon that minor occasion, on the "previous question" om the motion to recommit the Post Office Appropriation Bill, would have = made no difference, if it had been with the Republican?, as I think it - should have been in that instance. To sum up. Congressman Byrnes bas displayed in every way a gen- . uine, sincere interest and aggressive activity here in our behalf and in . trying to further in every fair way the legislation yo^r National Legisla tive Committee and your official representatives have been trying to se- . cure, such as anti-gambling in cotton and farm products, marketings vocational education, restriction of undesirable foreign im migration, the cheaper transportation of packages and parcels, and the more liberal treatment, and the more generous and sympathetic conside ration of the farmers. In this he ha3 aroused the opposition of the cot ton gamblers that want the cotton acreage increased and prices rendered i less stable, the large banking interests that favor the Aldrich Central i Bank scheme, the so-called "Money Trust" that wants to tighten its aw- . ful grip on the borrowing classes, the foreign and domestic transporta tion, and other selfish interests which seem to rae to have been exerting ? entirely too much influence here in Washington to the disadvantage of ." the general welfare of all of us. I do not know his opponent, if he bas one, but a number of congress-. men have been threatened with opposition for their courageous and pat riotic stand in behalf of this needed legislation, and I would urge that you look carefully into the credentials of his opponent and make very certain of the nature, character and pource of th? opposition, for I do know if Congressman Byrnes is defeated for re-election his defeat will be a severe blow to our cause here as he has been very active upon all oc casions in behalf of needed reform and in ways that are closely followed by the cotton gamblers, the so-called "Money Power," . and othtr large interests and influences that would and do seek to encompass the defeat . of good men, even through the election of another man unwittingly made . thereby the tool of their opposition. Understand me, when I say Ido not know the precise nature of his op position or whether he now has opposition, but I do know that his defeat, . owing to his effective activity, would be a blow to needed legislative re form, and the harder blow because it would deny him of a second term, something most now congressmen are expected to get as a matter of course. And in this connection I beg to qnote what President Barrett said recently in one of his public letters published in all the L'nion papers and many newspapers, for with all due respect for his opponent, if any, it well characterizes jour congressman in my opinion: "If you want your congressman to be what he real.y desires to be,-your friend, your defender, j our advocate,-you should prove your loyalty to him for his devotion to your cause, if he proves worthy, and stand by him in every conflict-this will give him courage, it will make him aggressive, it will make him determined, and it will encourage young men, who really want to do something for their fellowmen, to enter politics and be among those who were described by the poet as 'Large brained, clear eyed, of such as he, shall freedom's young apostle be.' " With everv fraternal wish, J. H. PATTEN, General Counsel, Farmers Union, Bliss Building, Washington, D. C. Home Office, Belton. S. C. (Advertisement) What Makes ,'A Woman? 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