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Offrst .Newspaper ?n $msth (feplina EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, ?9I5 NO. 39 JOHNSTON LETTER. Union Thanksgiving Service. Death of Mr Derrick. Miss Norris Gave Delightful RooH'Party. A union Thanksgiving: service will be held ou Thanksgiving morn ing in the Lutheran church, this to begin at 10:30 o'clock. On the afternoon of Thanksgiv ing day a game of foot ball will be played between the teams of Way nesboro, Ga., arid Johnston. Miss Alma Shell of Laurens has charge of the school near the home of Mr. J. W. Hardy. The Baptist choir, under the leadership of Mr. F. M. Boyd is preparing for a. sacred concert to be held on Sunday evening, De -oember 26, in the Baptist church. Dr. Lehman Williams and Mr. Barron of Statesboro, Ga , spent Sunday here in the home of friends. Mr. Butler Derrick died last Thursday at bis home in the Phlip pi section, death resulting from a carbuncle, blood poison having set in. Mr. Derrick was a bigh-toned Christian gentleman and was held in love and esteem by all. He meant much to the community in which he lived and his passing away will be felt in many ways. Ke was one of the deacons of Philippi Baptist church and a great Sunday schcol worker and has labored to bring the church up to its present stand ard. He was a kind and helpful neighbor, a loving husband and in dulgent father. The burial services were conducted on Friday at Phil ? ippi by his pastor Rev. A. C. Baker who was assisted by Rev. M. L. JKester. Besides his widow are left eight children, Messrs. Wiley, Jesse, ?Cleveland and Willie Derrick, and f Mrs. Talbert Rhoden, and Misses Maggie, Viola and Fannie Derrick. Mrs. Lehman Williams of States boro. Ga., was complimented with _- a delightful luncheon on last Thurs day morning this being given by j Mrs. Lucian Sloan Maxwell. Beau-j tiful chrysanthemums were the j chief decorations, and the eight ta bles for the games were also adorn ed with blossoms. Sweet music was enjoyed ?while the games were in progress, and when concluded the honoree was presented with a lovely blue and white erepe-de-chine hand kerchief. The hostess served a tempting luncheon. Mrs. J. W. Mish has arrived fi ora Virginia for a visit in the home of ber brother, Dr. P. N. Keesee. Miss Mary Poppenbeim of Char leston spent the week-end in the home of her cousin, Miss Emma Bouknight. Mrs. J. W. Browne was hostess for the Pi Tau club on Wednesday afternoon and this coterie of friends spent two hours very pleasantly to gether. Sewing and chatting were indulged in and later a salad course with coffee was served. Mrs. James Crouch of Batesburg las been visiting her mother, Mrs. Robert Price. Mrs. James White has srone to Hartsyille to spend Thanksgiving at Coker college with^her daughter, Miss Hallie White. The members of the Mary.Ann Buie chapter, D. of C , will pack a Thanksgiving box on Friday morn ing to send to the inmates of the County Home. Thursday afternoon proved a most delightful one for those who attended the rook party given by Miss Luelle Norris. Old Boreas provided most disagreeable weather for the afternoon, but this did not dampen the ardor of the pleasure goers and the time proved so de lightful they felt amply repaid for having braved the elements. The exterior of the home was a delight ful contrast to the outside, for the rooms were aglow with vari-tinted autumn foliage the effect being most pleasing. The score cards for the game were of bright autumn leaves, and several games were played, af ter music the hostess serving a colla tion of sweets, the autumn tints be ing well carried out. She was assist ed by her sifters, Mrs. M. R. Wright and Miss Sara Norris. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Stevens spent a few days of last week at Cleora with their daughter, Miss Sara Ste vena, who is teaching there. Mr. and Mrs. Shelton Sawyer and children have returned from Ameri cas, Ga., where they visited in the borne of Mr. Luther Lott. Mr. Gilbert of Edgefield bas ce Parksville's Harvest Festival and Corn Show. The first fruits of Parksville's university extension spirit of which we heard at the time of her Chau tauqua are to be a harvest festival and corn show. Her committee has re-organized into the Parksville fair and welfare association and if there is anything in a name, we shall ex pect great things. The officers of the association are W. M. Robert son president, J. M. Bussey vice president, Miss Gazie Osborne sec retary and W. P. Parks treasurer. On Thanksgiving day there is to be a barbecue dinuer after the Thanksgiving song: service and from the dinner the school children are to march singing harvest songs and with banners flying go to the school house where the corn show is to be held, and where there are to be more songs and speeches and judg ing of exhibits of corn, butter, canned and preserved good things and fancy work. It is hoped that some one may be present from Clemson college to do the judging and give a talk on corn judging and corn raising. Mr. P. N. Lott, agricultural agent, is expected also. In the evening the young people are to give an enter tainment to their friends and elders. A prize of five dollars is offered for the best dozen ears of corn and such a searching and scratching through corn cribs you never did hear of and the young aud old corn growers are surprised at how hard it is for them to fiud a dozen ears that they can feel sure will bring down that $5 bili and ail the honor that goes with it. W. W. F. Presbyterian Bazaar. The announcement that the la dies of the Presbyterian church will hold their annual bazaar ou December 16 will cause many per sons in Edgefield to look forward to the occasion with pleasant an ticipations. The social feature of the bazaar is always enjoyed by-the young people aud the early Christ mas shoppers alws.ys find many things for sale that make suitable gifts. Besides beirg useful, the price of the articles are reasonable. Sunday School Institute. Dr. T. J. Watts, Sunday school secretary of the Baptist State Mis sion Board of South Carolina, has been conducting an institute at the Baptist church for several days. Sunday morning and evening he presented the cause very effectively which be represents. Monday and Tuesday night he instructed the teachers and others interested ia Sunday scnool work. Dr. Watts stresses the importance of making the educational value of the Sunday school felt as a means of develop ing Christian character just as the public or secular schools develop the minds. He also lays great stress upon tile evangelizing influence of the Sunday school. None of this can be accomplished to a satisfac tory degree without trained teach ers, men and women who are capa ble of developing those who sit be fore them iu the Sunday school classes every Sunday morning. Dr. Watts is the acknowledged leader in Sunday school work in the South ern Baptist convention and his cuming to Edgefield has given a great stimulus to the Sunday school in whose interest he came. All of his services were well attenued, many persons becoming interested who have not hitherto actively identified themselves with the Sun day school. cently purchased several acres of land in South Jonnston and contem plates erecting a dwelling at an ear ly date. Mr. Gilbert and his family will move here in a few weeks. Mr. Herman Powell of Newberry was a recent visitor in the home of Mr. Y. M. Powell. Mr. Will Yonce has purchased a Saxon car. Mrs. J. W. Marsh visited in the home of her cousin. Mr. Grady Hazel at Saluda last week. Rev. T. H: Posey of Wards who represents the Edisto academy at Seivern will fill the pulpit of the Baptist church on Sunday. The Mary Ann Buie chapter, D. of C., is laying plans for a "Rose show" this to be held in April. Everyone is invited to enter the contest. Now is the time to begin with the bushes. MAINTAINING ROADS. Mr. Fowler Urges That Proper Caire be Taken of Improved Roads. Individuals Must Help. Supervisor Edmunds by a very great 'effort has given us miles of thirty foot road. It has been a joy to be hold an unalloyed pleasure so far to drive upon. While good weather lasted there seemed no possible flaw to our happiness but alas for human hopes, the dav of reckoning has come, the rains are here. These rains are to be the touchstone of the roads and the test of our apprecia tion and value of them. If these roads are wDrth anything to us we are going to take care of them, for as I reminded the readers of The Advertiser the supervisor has no plans and doubtless has no equip ment for their care during the year.* There is no law of nature and no dispensation of Providence that will prevent a fine 30-foot road from get ting as full of rut? as the poor old scrubby 16-foot one of the past. The ruts will come there just as quick and twice as thick. But nature and Providence have provided a reme dy-a voluntary one-in the man beside the road. Under present conditions if these roads are to stay fine it must be by the work and to the credit of ?he man beside the road. If they go to the bad the man beside the road will be the sufferer and get the blame. If these roads can be kept in fair condition this year by volunta ry work an insistant demand cm be made upon the county next year that some provision be made for their maintenance. The county must be shown. Now it should not be difficult to j keep these fine roads in good con-] dition this winter. A King road drag as bas been several times illus.:, trated in The Advertiser can be. .made in an hour at'a'cost bTa'd'bi-' lar or less and nothing better is known for the work. Used after each heavy rain they round up the road and spread on it a thin smooth layer of mud that puddles and sheds water. We practically give the roads a brick covering. A young man in North Carolina a few years a*ro took in hand a mile of road near his home. He dragged it smooth with a King road drag and kept so and at the end of that time found that his total expanse had been ?17.50. The county was so pleased that they put that mile of road in his charge and stood the expense. At this rate 1,500 miles of road in Edgefield county could be cared for at an expense of $5,500 a year. Up to the present a big part of this amount has been spent on bad roads. If Edgefield county had 1,500 miles ol' finely kept roads like this she would have small reason to fear divorce suits'on the parts of her out lying territory ardent to flee to the arms of lusty young towns bent on setting up housekeeping for them selves. W. W. Fowler. I Old Fiddler's Convention. Early in the new year, probably the first week in February, an old fiddler's convention will be held in Edgefield under the auspices of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. AH of ye old fiddlers-not ! violins-and ' chune her up" for the occasion. Begin to practice now so your fingers and elbows will be limbered for the occasion. Invita tions will be issued every person in the county who can play a fiddle. Among those already mentioned, are Albert Lott, John Allen, John Tompkins, Mitch Wells, Col. Brooks Mayson, Mr. Newt Fair, Brasrg Jones, all of the Winn and Seigler boys, and possibly a iozen other musicians whose talent has been smoldering under a bushel all these years. Yes, the old tiddlers' convention is to be the first big en tertainment of the new year in Edgefield. Presbyterian Services. Th? nksgiving service Thursday in Edgefield at ll a. m. Trenton: Thanksgiving service at 8 p. m. Thursday. And also Sunday morning at 11:15. Johnston: Presbyterian service at 7:30 Sunday evening. "UNCLE" IV'S LETTER. Writ?? in Reminiscent Vein. Kind Words For Mr. Pat Bussey. Pleased With New Home. Well, old friend Advertiser: Whde tbe wind is howling around and making- a fellow chase his hat once in a while, I will write just a few lines to let you know of a letter I-iiad gotten from A. A. Glover of Korth, S. C., and the good that let ter did me. ile wrote of'bygone days and of the loved ones of those days who have passed into tfce world beyond the grave. It called me back to ray boyhood days and the days of my young manhood daring the war, where two of his uncles (A. A. and M. 0. Glover) and I served in the same company. As I write 1 eau, iu my imagination, see the boys (your father being one ?of them) again in camp or in the saddle, on their way possibly to death. But those g ray ranks are thinning fast and of i;be 68 disband ed on the 23rd of April, 1865, I can count only 8 or 9 living. Soon all I will have answered the last roll call ! and be beyond the reach of mercy, j if we have not accepted it in this j life. How an old soldier can live a wicked life is something I cannot understand for mid shot and shell God protected u? and we ought to be'ot all raen God-loving and God* serving for His goodness to ns. Mr. Editor, I have written the ab?ye I hardly kuow why, only I could not help but write as I have. We have had rain and 'tis turn ing cold very fast, but a good many 'of those around us had sown aud were still sowing wheat and oats. Yes, air, not little patches but fields and some of the grain is up and (ooks fine. Had the rain not stopped my boya would have tiuiahed today. Thc land we have to .work now is LaMU:^same grade land as Dr. l'f?jcoi't's and P. H. Bnssev's (?tfcn that'reminds rae that Pat is sick j and no hopes of bis recovery. Well ! I have knoiwn him from his boyhood and a better man I can't say that I have ever known, and if he isn't prepared for the change I don't know who is ) We are about 4 or 5 miles south of Harlem and so far like the coun ty and the people. It seems a little strange to have our kinsfolk from Carolina coining to visit us by pri vate conveyance and driving the distance in 5 or 6 hours. But we are about the same distance from Parksyille as it is from Parksville to Augusta, possibly 5 miles far iner. The stock law is in this county and some iike it and some don't. It seems a little out of joint to us, as for this and last year, we were in a county where the fields were fenced and the hogs and cattle out on the range, where one hog with cholera could spread it over the whole ranere and it was playing havoc with them when we moved from there. Uucle Iv. Harlem, Ga. Map Out a Winter's Reading Course. We would suggest that a full sup ply of bulletins be laid in for read ing and study during the stormy days and long winter evenings which will soon be upon us. No better or more profitable way could be thought of for employing these dreary times of enforced indoor life. Sit down at once and write your state agricultural college and the Office of Publications, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., for a printed list of their bulletins available for free distribution. Then, as soon as the list is received, go over it and check off those publications deal ing with your own particular farm problems and send in your order for them af once. You can order direct yourself, if you prefer; but better satisfaction and more dis patch are sometimes obtained by ordering through a United States senator or a representative in Con gress.-Progressive Farmer. For Sale Or Rent--My nine-room house in north Edgefield, eight acres of land, pasture, good well and spring, s ervant house and store house on the prerai?es. Terms easy, apply to W. C. Jackson. News Letter From Edgefield Graded and High School. Friday afternoon at the Fair Grounds a pitched-team from John ston defeated Edgefield High School team by the lop-sided score of 38-0. The game was Johnston's from the begining, and in the plucky fitrht made by Edgefield. against overwhelming odds in weigrht ami [ experience, to keep the score as k>w as possible, that made the game in teresting. The Edgefield team weighted on the average about 120 pounds, Johnston, about 14-0. Many of our bovs, not only had never played foot-ball before, but bad never eren seen a game, while the Johnston team had played together for two or three years. Edgefield held them for downs but one time, and thal on account of a penalty, and not once did our fellows gain the required ten. However, on the defensive, Jones, Hollingsworth and Cheatham played a good game for Edgefield. Lott, Wright, and Broadwater, all old heads at the game, staved for Johnston. John ston tried two forward- passes, both of which were incomplete. Edge field completed one pass, which, however, netted only a few yarn's. There is no disgrace in being de feated, the disgrace lies in fear of defeat, and while we are hot par ticularly elated over our maiden effort on the girdiron, we feel no humilation at the result- If all the old athletes, living in town, will give us their encouragement and advice next year, we hope to put out a winning team. The entertainment on last Friday evening was one of the best of the season. The stage was decorated with ferns and chrysanthemums, and the young ladies, in evening costume, made a very attractive scene. We did not realize as large a sum as we bid boped for, due to a Masonic banquet on the same night. However, the amount re ceived,, waa . twenty-two -dollars, a sufficient sum to cover all expenses on our play-ground apparatus, and the whole school extends the great est thanks to those who made the enteitainment such a success. We hope to give a series of such enter tainments of the benefit of our library. On next Saturdav the Teachers' Association of Edgefield county will meet in the court house at eleven o'clock. Meeting to Consider Erection of Hospital. Pursuant to the resolution re cently adopted by the county medi cal association suggesting that steps be taken to establish a hospital in Edgefield, the physicians, dentists and members ot the chamber of commerce held a meeting in the court house Monday evening to formulate some definite plans. While the attendance was not large, yet the business and professional men who assembled were deeply inter estsd. Every phase of the undertak ing was fully discussed, the discus sion being opened by Dr. W. D. Ouzts who is an enthusiastic sup porter of the enterprise. Brief but I practical and pointed talks were j also made by Dr. R.A. Marsh, Dr. A. R. Nicholson, Dr. J. G. Tompkins, Dr. J. G. Edwards and several of the laity. All were of one accord in stating in no uncertain terms that Edgefield needed and should have a hospital. In addition to keep ing a considerable sum of money at home that is now paid to city hos pitals, the existence of hospital would enable scores of people to receive special treatment through the hospital who are unable to pay the enormous prices charged by the city institutions. A resolution was unanimously adopted requesting the medical as sociation to call a meeting as early as practicable and prepare plans to be submitted to a joint meeting pf the chamber of commerce and the members of the civic league. Every one present realized the importance of enlisting the co-operation of the ladies of the town and county. At a meeting to be called in a short time a definite course will be map ped out and then a statement more in detail will be presented to the public. Other towns not any larger than Edgefield, have established a hospital for the relief of human suffering. Why can it not be done here? We believe that if a sufficient number of people can be enlisted, RED HILL TIDINGS. Hammond-Miller Marriage at Colliers. Large School at. Red Hill. Modern Building. Things are movintr oo nicely ia oar part of the vineyard. We had a good congregation at Red Hill Sun day morning also at Colliers Sun day afternoon. Mr. Murphey Miller and Miss Lucile Hammond were married at Colliers Sunday afternoon at four o'clock by their pastor, Rev. J.T. Littlejohn. These young people are very popular among their Jaree cir cle of friends. We wish for them a long and useful life. Mr. Editor, it is a joy and delight to hear the school bell each morn ing calling the children to their day's task. Then to see them coming from all parts of the community, yes, it is a real joy. We have now near on to 100 children enrolled and hope to pass far beyond this number before Christmas. The new school building is now in the bands of the painters/ The bouse will be painted inside and ont and all the floors will be painted aud desks varnished. The building is well furnished with the very best of black boards, globes, charts and maps. Our teachers and pupils are all hard at work and we are looking for good results. Mrs. Rose Cottage aud Miss Has sle Quarles report a good time at the ladies convention at Spartan burg. ^ The mission society of Red Hill will meet at the home of Mrs. Er nest Quarles Thursday afternoon. The ladies are planning to meet their apportionment by the early spring. The deacons and pastor of Reho both church held a delightful meet ing at the home of deacon D. L Morgan last Wednesday planning for the work of another year. Be fa o both-church has three new-dea cons, Messrs. J. D. Hughey, George Cartledge, Tandy Culbreath. Our people are about through' gathering. Muoh grain has been, sown this fall. We are all now hav ing a good time digging potatoes, killing hogs, also the persimmons and the o'possum are ripe. So it is a good old time in the country now. Some one asked Gussie Wash why he raised so many potatoes and hogs. His reply was, he just had to, there came a new boy to uis house every year. Rose Cottage. Planning For Spelling Bee. As shown by the papers from different parts of the state, the Spelling Bee is a popular form of entertainment at this time. A large '.Bee" was to have been held in Columbia last Friday uight but it was postponed a week on account of the unfavorable weather. One is being planned for Edgefield, the date being probably Friday night, December 17. Just as sotne of the most prominent men and women of Columbia will take pan in the one to be held in Columbia, so" many of the most prominent men and women in Edgefield will par ticipate in the one to be held here. An announcement in detail will be given next week. Meal of Highest Grade. In this issue of The Advertiser will be found the analysis in detail made by Clemson College of cotton seed meal made by the Beaver Dam mill. Fora number of years the meal of Edgefield's mill has stood high as a fertilizer and as cattle feed. As shown by the analysis, the meal contains a very high per cent, of ammonia and potash, two of the most expensive elements of plant food that farmers have to buy. Look carefully over the figures made by Clemson college, not by the mill itself, and you will see that it pays to buy Beaver Dam Mill meal. Yon get more for your money than from any other meal we know of. the enterprise can be made a suc cess. Speak of it to your friends. Take a personal interest in promot ing the hospital movement. Yon or some member of your family may be among the first to receive bene fits from it. Who knows what.the future has in store?