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(f3?dcs? Jfewapaper H ?mrth (tolma EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1917 JOHNSTON LETTER. New Baptist Church to be Organ ized. Anaual Business Meet ing. "WeAre-Twelve" Club Entertained. Or. Saturday, Aug. 25, a Baptist church will be organized at Speigh ers, and the deacons of the Baptist church here, as well as all of the members have been invited to at tend. The deacons will take a part in order of the day. The occasion will be an all day affair. The second Sunday in September has been 3et aside by the Baptist church as Annual Business Meeting Day, and at the morning service Dr. Pendleton Jones of Edgefield will preach. Leaving aside the other enjoyable features of the day, the above announcement alone, will -draw a large crowd. This will be an all day affair and every member of the church is expected to be present and answer to the roll call. Mr. and Mrs. J, Neil Lott are in New York this week, the former going to purchase fall goods. Mrs. Walter Beckwith of Wayns boro, Ga., is visiting Mrs. J. D. Bartley. Miss Clara Sawyer has returned from a visit to Hiddenite, N. C. Misses Hortense Padgett and Maude Nickerson have gone to Waynsville. N. C., to spend awhile. .Mr. M. R. Wright is in New York this week to purchase his fall 6tock of dry goods. Mr. Woodruff Lowman was here last week for a short visit in the family of his aunt, Mrs. M. E. Nor ris. He will leave on the 29th with his company. Rev. W. S. Brooke is conduct ing a revival this week at Sardis church. This makes his fifth week in the good work, having been at Ward Baptist church, Horns Creek, Red Hill and Rocky Creek. Johnston is well represented this week at the annual W. M. IL, of the Ridge Association, the meeting being Thursday and Friday. This church is proud of the re ports of these organizations, the missionary society having given the best report in its history, giving $400.00. The Y. W. A., which is composed of ten young women, gives *40.25; the G. A. of 18 young women gives ?55.00; the R. A. re ports 550.00 and the sunbeams far exceeded their apportionment, giv ing ?S0.20. Mrs. Agatha White and her daughter Miss White of Connie Maxwell Orphanage, are visiting relatives here. Mrs. White is matron of one of the cottages here. Misses Matilda Ct?ok and Way ring Wise of Batesburg, were guests last week in the home of Mr. and Mrs. P. N. Lott. Mesdames John Mays and J. H. Mathis of Edgefield, worshiped Sun day here at the Baptist church. Miss Fanrie Ferrel .of Danville. Va., is visiting Mrs. W. S. Brooke. Mrs. F. M. Boyd has gone to Chester to spend two weeks with her mother, Mrs. Stewart. Mrs. T. R. Denney, and Miss Antoinette Denney are visiting rela tives and friends here. Since June 1, they have been visiting relatives in Alabama and Georgia. * Mr. and Mrs. Knight and little Evely and Roy Evey of Greencut, Ga., spent hst week here with Mrs. Georgia Turner. Mrs. J. L. Walker has as her guest this week Mrs. J. A. Walker of Cochran, Ga, and on Tuesday entertained with a most delightful 5 o'clock tea in her honor. Mrs. James Huiet and little son Gladyn, and bright little girl are visiting Mrs. Mamie A. Huiet. Mesdames M. T. Turner and O. D. Black, Miss Zena Payne aud Mr. W. Wallace Turner visited last week at Greenwood in the homes of Dr. J. Wallace Payne and Rev. W. P. B. Kinard. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hendrix and family of Leesville, spent the week-end here in the home of Mr. J. M. Turner. Miss Sara Norris has gone to Baltimore to spend two weeks. Mrs. Manning Simmons has gone to Greenwood to visit her brother, Mr. Sumter Wright, and from there will go to Greenville to visit Mrs. Beta Wright. Mr* and Mrs. Ransom Timmer man and family spent a part of last week here in the home of Mr. J. C. Lewis. Mrs. G. G. Waters entertained Wiil be Greatly Missed. Mrs. P. M. Feltham who has been on a visit of several weeks to her brother-in-law Mr. Fred Fel tham in Boston, Ga., following the ?Ment very sad and tragic accident, Spurned home on Thursday of last Sjfeek. Mrs. Feltham went to Boston on hearing of the death of Mrs. Fred Feltham in an automobile accident and the serious injury of the other members of the family and remain ed until Mr. Feltham and the daughter and son had greatly im proved. While away Mrs. Feltham spent several days in Albany, Ga., and she was there the recipient of many courtesies from friends of yore in Albany who were once resi dents of Edgefield, Mrs. Charles Rawson, formerly Miss Mary Eliza Cheatham and Mrs. Henry McIn tosh, so well known in Edgefield, as Miss Alice Cheatham. Mrs. Feltham also visited for a day in Moultrie, Ga., and there met and received courtesies from Miss Wm. Blanton, formerly Miss Floy Reddick, who attended school in Edgefield. Mrs. Feltham has gone to Monti cello, Fla., where she and Mr. Fel tham will reside for the winter. The Edgefield friends are loath to give them up and the little boys Jack and John as their boy friends love to call them. Mrs. Feltham said that if any people on earth could rival the Edgefield people in genuiue old time hospitality, it was those of South Georgia. A Kindly Deed. Some great man has said that he loved to do a kindly deed in secret and have it found out publicly. The evil deeds of persons are very soon exploited and people call that gossip, but surely there can be no harm in talking out loud about the good that men do,-especially when its discovery will be a sur prise to those who did it. On Sunday afternoon Mr. J. T. McManus and Mr. L. S. Kernag han went out to the chain gang camped out near Edgewood, Mr. McManus carrying a load of water melons to the convicts. They greatly enjoyed this feast as you may well imagine, and a religious service was held with them by these two gentlemen. The convicts about 25 or 30 in number, sang with their voices, and no doubt made merry in their hearts over this gracious generosity so rarely dispensed to the unfortunate in this world. Birthday Party. Little Miss Gladys Lawton enter tained about thirty of her friends on Saturday afternoon in celebration of ber twelfth birthday. Games of all kinds that charm the child heart were engaged in and, the decorations were of a patriotic suggestion, the pretty invitations having sent a hint of it beforehand, bearing a flag on the dainty paper. The souvenirs were bright little red, white and blue baskets filled with candy and waving from their topNi miniature silk Mag. A word contest was one of the features of the afternoon's pleasures, the prize, a box of patriotic station ery, being won by Eleanor Miras, Refreshments of ice cream and cake was served. Edgefield Soldier at Georgetown The second regiment of South Carolina stationed at Georgetown which has as one of its company an Edgefield boy, A. S. Tompkins, Jr., has been the recipient of many hospitable attentions. The News and Courier of Sunday gives the 'headquartes company" roster and tells of the beautiful courtesies extended them, boat rides, watermelon feasts, and formal and informal receptions, local concerts and other attractions. The name of Arthur S. Tompkins, is mention ed as a guest at all these pleasant occasions. the "We-Are-Twelve" club on Fri day afternoon and a most happy time was had with this congenial party of friends, the time being passed with chatting and with fancywork. A most .1,,?ciou8 re past was served. Miss Lizzie Griffin of Newberry, spent last week here with Miss Lil ian M obley. A Welcome Visitor Coming. We were glad to hear during our visit to Red Hill on Wednesday that Mrs. Littlejohn was expected in a few days to visit her sister Mrs. Wash and many friends in that neighborhood. She will at tend the Woman's Meeting at Har dy's. Later Mr. Littlejohn will join her and will be in attendance on the association at Rehoboth. Rev. W. M. Whiteside8 has the following to say of Lockhart and Rev. Mr. Littlejohn in last week's Baptist Courier. "Two years ago I visited Lock hart for the first time. They h'ad a one-room church building and were trying to pay the pastor $500 for one-half time. Pastor J. M. Cul bertson and I put on the 'Individ ual Finance System," and brought them up to $800 for full time. We visited the general manager who agreed to add a Sunday school ad dition to our house and allow us to pay for it by the month without any interest. The plan added one third more to the auditorium and gave us four splendid Sunday school rooms. The company also agreed to give $?0 each year ou pastor's salary. Rev. L. S. Shealy, who succeed ed Pastor Culbertson, served as pas tor during the two years. Through his efforts both the church and Sun day school rolls were almost doubled. We are sorry to have lost Shealy from our mill work. He served us well at Laurens Second, Buffalo and LocKbart. We hope that he may soon return to his first love. Rev. J. T, Littlejohn is now the beloved pastor at Lockhart. He has already won a warm place in every heart. Both he and the community are optimistic over the splendid out-look. During our recent cam paign the church i ne rea.'ed the sala ry to twenty dollars per week or $1,040 yer year-a gain of $240. The company was asked to increase their contribution to $150. I rejoice over the splendid week's work &340 added to pastor's salary, to say nothing of the good accomplish ed by the teaching and preaching each night at the church and from house to house during the day. Pastor Littlejohn needs no intro duction to South Carolina Baptists. He made himself felt for every de nominational cause in the Edge field Association. Already he has entered into the life of the Union County Association. Mrs. Littlejohn is identified with every phase of the W. M. TJ. work in the church. ' _ Put on Shirt With Care. Hereafter, all ye people who wear shirts, men or women, be care ful how you don this very essential garment. Our friend Gus Edmunds who graduated in road building and is now engaged in bigger things building a cantonment for the gov ernment-came home from Colum bia Sunday, where he has been work ing for the past month. While on the streets Monday morning Mr. Edmunds told us to always put on our shirt with care so as to avoid the experience he bad. One morn ing last week while dressing hur riedly he put his shirt on wrong side out and his room-mate told him at the time that he would have "bad luck" for making such an in gregious blunder. Sure euough, when he went to the station in Col umbia Sunday morning to come home after an absence of several weeks, he "got left" and had to wait for the next train. Again, when he came over from his home Monday morning to return to Col umbia he "got left," the train hav ing departed a few minutes before his arrival. Never put on your shirt or shirtwaist wrong-side out Music at Woman's Meeting. The Woman's Missionary Union which will meet at Hardy's August 28, will be unusually fortunate this year in the splendid music which will be furnished each day by the North Augusta choir, Mr. Hender son leader. Our good women from all over Edgefield association will be constrained to attend on this ac count if no other. Padgett-Young. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Padgett have issued invitations to the mar riage of their daughter Miss Eulig Padgett, to Mr. E. Leroy Young which will take place at home Aug ust 22 at 12 o'clock. Meeting at Red Hill. A splendid meeting was conduct ed at Red Hill during the past week. Rev. W. S. Brooke of Johns ton doing the preaching. An automobile party from Edge field went over on Wednesday and enjoyed the splendid gathering and the meeting with many friends and co-laborers. On that morning we reached the church in time to be present at the prayer service preceding the sermon, which was conducted by our esteem ed friend. Wallace Prescott, whom all Edgefieid and Red Hill regret to give up, as he will soon leave for his school at Lockhart. Mr. Henry Bussey and Mr. Rufus Johnson both made helpful talks at this tervice, which no doubt made a deep impression on the many young men who later went up to the front and expressed an interest in their spiritual condition. Mr. Brooke preached a very ap propriate sermon on the parable of the rich man. The music was good and a full choir of women and men made the old hymns resound through the spa cious church. Mrs. Maggie McDaniel Burnett presided at the organ and Miss Al pha Hammond at the piano. A bountiful dinner was spread and over this hospitable board the friends and neighbors talked until the afternoon bell rang, when ac cording to Mr. Brooke's request everybody, without any exception, even the soldier boys and their sweethearts, went back into the church and listened to the words of wisdom which fell from the preach er's lips. And this was only one day which the writer was privileged to enjoy. How much of good must come from a week of such splendid oc casions. Only those who value the power of the invisible good can catcfe ? visi?n "of Tt. About 15 members were added to the church, we hope, "Of such shall be saved." Keep Cattle Away From Rail road Track. i Washington, D. C., August 13. uMillions of pounds of beef and pork will be required to feed our armies and navies and those of our allies, and if we are not to have meatless days enforced in the United States we should conserve our sup plies in every practicable way," said President Harrison, of the Southern Railway System, to day. "One of the ways in which s very substantial saving of our meat resources may be made is through reducing the number of animals killed on railroad tracks. On the railroads of the United States many thousands of cattle and hogs are killed every year and, as those killed in this way are not used for food, this loss results in a corres pondingly large decrease in our available meat supply'. "The responsibility for this loss rests primarily on the owner of the animals who allows them to stray on the railroad right of way. When they are killed the la?v places the responsibility on the railroad and the owner suffers no direct pecu niary loss. There is, however, in addition to the serious reduction of the meat supply of thc country, a further economic loss through the payment by the railroad of money which is urgently needed at this time for increasing the transporta tion facilities of the country,- the lack of which for the movement of his produces to market may cause a loss to the farmer greater than the amount he received for the ani mals killed on the railroad. The extent of this loss may be indicated bv the fact that the Southern Rail way System alone paid out in the twelve months ended June 30, 1917, more than ?200,000 for ani mals killed on the right of way. This sum, even at the present high prices of equipment would be suf ficient to buy more than 100 stan dard box cars capable of handling at a single load more than 3,000 tons of freight, and the constant use of this many additional cars would tend to the relief of the present war-lime congestion of traffic. ^ "Is it not the patriotic cutty of every farmer to keep his live stock away from the railroad tracks?" Newsy Letter From Hardy's. We hoped so much for a rain on Sunday afternoon when the clouds looked so dark and heavy toward the North and East. But it did not come at all. and we need it so much, although we had some Wednesday and Thursday, but not over on the further part of the place. They are very partial. There must have been hail some where, as it was much cooler and the wind blew a good deal. We had a good congregation out on Sunday at Hardy's and must thank Mrs. Scott for playing the organ for us. Hope she will attend regularly and help us out some more. We were so glad to see Mrs. El lie Briggs at Hardy'? for the first time in three or four years. She is looking fine too. And surprised to see Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn Ham ilton and family at her old home church. We have not seen her for four or five years before, and sorry her visit to Mr. Will Briggs her brother, was so short we could not get to see more of her. She return ed home Monday. Mr. Milton Birker returned home Thursday of last week from a trip to his former home Chattanooga, Tenn. He and Mrs. Milton Bark er have been quite sick with La Grippe. Hope they may soon be well again. We have received invitations to attend the marriage of Miss Bur mah Love Barker of Pikerville, Tenn., to Mr. Fred B. Barker, of Curryton, for Sept. 5, 1917. We congratulate, and wish them both much happinese. We were truly sorry we could not attend the cue given at Mr. Tom McKie's pond Thursday. We hear every one enjoyed it immensely, just as they always do, for those people know how to make a good time for all. Everything is camp, camp, camp jiow. Messrs. Herbert'and Harry Bunch and Mr. Frank Townes go from home every morning to work over there. Mr. Henry Medlock has gone this week to try for a job. Mr. Cogburn is also over there and Mr. Tom DeLauirhter and Mr. George Wright. The two Mr. Bunch's have teams out there. There are just lots of the negroes from, this community have gone to get work. Just think of what un immense af fair this camp business is. Those who have not been accepted as sol diers are out there. Miss May Seckenger is spending her vacation with Mrs. Free Taylor, her mother, over at Morgana. Miss Goodrich of Augusta and Mrs. Bertha Sanders of McCormick, are also visiting Mrs. Free Taylor. We were glad to hear Mr. Edaar Lanham is up walking around after his spell of typhoid fever. Hope he will continue to improve. Alene. It is human to stand with the crowd, it is divine to stand-alone. It ia man-like to follow the people, to drift with the tide; it is God like to follow a principle, to stem the tide. It is natural to compromise con science and follow the social and religious fashiou for the sake of gain or pleasure; it is divine to sac rifice both on the altar of truth and duty. "No man stood with me, but all men forsook me,*' wrote the battle scarred apostle, in describing bis 'first appearance before Nero to an swer for bis life for believing and teaching contrary to the Roman world. Truth has been out of fashion since man changed his robe of fade less light for a garment of faded leaves. Noah built and vovaged alone. His neighbors laughed at his strangeness and perished in style. Abraham wandered and worship ped alone. Sodomites smiled at the simple shepherd, followed the fash ion, and fed the flames. Daniel dined and prayed alone, Elijah sacrificed and witnessed alone. Jeremiah prophesied and wept alone. Jesus loved and died alone. Wanted, todav, men and women, young and old, who will obey their convictions of truth and duty at any cost.-Exchange. RED OAK GROVE. Active Missionary Circles- An nual' Meeting at Hardy's. Many Visitors Come and Go. Good Revivals. Only a short while till the Edge field W. M. TL, will meet together for that great occasion at Hardy's. Our society will report out of debt. More encouraging news in the in terest of our spiritual development is this: We have organized Circle No. 3, with Mrs. Jesse Whatley chairman and Miss Lizzie Mims helper. We feel so proud of our Circles, and especially shall we en joy watching their development. We can't expect the mile-stones to be good markers for the wayfaring unless we keep them right. And let us ' individually endeavor to watch our mile-stones (the Circles), and help our leaders to keep ber's bright that some may see the road to righteousness. Mrs. Sallie Mims so graciously received us in her home where our first meeting was held last Saturday afternoon. We rejoice to see the sweet spirit in the meeting, and feel sure others will catch the inspira tion and become more interested. Circle No. 2 held their annual meeting last Wednesday afternoon. Being so encouraged at the spiritual development we were constrained to hold a special meeting, rather reviewing contest as a kind of cele bration. We have reasons to be lieve our efforts have not been in vain. We feel that our Sunday School is not what we want; now as the. winter is approaching new interest, must be taken or we fear our school* will "freeze up." We have had quite a number of" visitors in oiir midst. Misses Nixon from North Aug usta are visiting in the neighbor- . hood.-1"-^-r Mr. R. M. Lamb and family of Atlanta, Mr. Kenrick Lamb and wife of Brunswick, Ga., also Mrs. W. M. Gignilliatt with two daughters, Miss Laura and little Leslie. Mrs. Carrie Rodgers from Green- ' wood accompanied by her daughter, Airs. John Quattlebaura, beloved, here as Miss Fannie Clegg. ^ Mrs. Emma Bussey, the estimable wife ot Rev. G. W. Bussey was with us during our meeting. To . know her is to love her, and better ' know the success of her beautiful home life-the life that tells. Mr. Ben Rodgers and wife were amonff our number. He id a Green wood man and that goes to say he like others, likes our people; but oh, the roads, he says. Miss Maude Quattlebaum is the guest of her uncle. Mr. M. Clegg. Don't think her ''bestest" will call in an automobile as he too is from ? Greenwood Miss Ruth Kemp, one of the pretty and sweet girls from Kirksey came talking Rock Hill to our girls. She will enter college there this session. It was quite interesting to hear Mr. Guy Pittman of LaCompte, La., tell of the boll weevil experience in his country. Their trail is yet in existence, tho' the people have learn ed to do them a "bit" too, and cot ton is again extensively planted and prospects for the present crop is the best in years in his parts. We were glad to have our youi.g friend Mr. Henry Bailey and wife of Modoc come in our midst last week. Mrs. James Hamilton has had with her son, Mr. D. B. McDaniel and his bride froniHarlem, Ga. The war has already given the wives hardships looking after the farms, for numbers of our men are now in Columbia and Augusta car pentering. Many heretofore could hardly drive nails, now feel they knew more all the while than chey revealed. Misses Kathleen Kenrick and Lillie Timmerman leave Saturday for a few days recreation, having remained at home assisting in try ing to carry out the plan of conser vation. Mrs. Fannie Griffis is visitiug relatives in Greenwood and Spartan burg. During her absence Mrs. McManu8 has been with her mother, Mrs. Maggie Griffis. Messrs. Rob Cothran and Walter (Continued on Foutth Page.)