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Office No 61 Residence, No. 17 Wednesday, February 13. LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Mrs. J. R. Cantelou has frone to Cochran, Ga., to visit relatives. Hear the young Canadian sergeant in the opera house to-morrow night. Ex-Gov. J. C. Sheppard has pur chased a Willys-Knight car of- the latest model from Mr. J. D. Hol stein, Jr. Mr. Way tn an Cori ey came over from Camp Jackson fer the week end, and visited relatives in the An tioch section. Rev. J. W. Kesterson was among the visitors in Ed<refield and re oeived a hearty handshake from his friends here. Services, at the Methodist church, Trenton, Sunday afternoon are as follows: Sunday school 3:00 P. M.; preaching by the pastor at 4:00 P. M. Miss Alpha Hammond, who is now serving her third year as teach er in the Red Hill school, was among the visitors in Edgefield Sat urday. Mrs. John K.Aull of Columbia has been spending several days in Edgefield. She and Miss Ruth Tompkins left this morning for a visit to Atlanta. Mr. E. S. Rives has arrived from New York, where he spent a very pleasant and profitable week pur-j chasing his spring stock. Ile miss ed the zero weather. Services at the Methodist, church Sunday arc as follows: Sunday school, I0:o0 A. M.; preaching by the pastor at 11:30 A. M. The pub lic is cordially invited. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Youn<r have rented the residence of Miss Kate Samuel, formerly owned by Capt. 0. P. Bright. Miss Samuel will board with them. Among the soldiers w ho were at home for the week end were Major W. A. Collett and Mr. John L. Holston. Capt. John Warren also spent Saturday in Edgefield. Mr. Hezzie G ri tbs spent last week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J Griffis, of the Gilgal section. Ile is greatly pleased with his duties at Camp Sevier. He is enjoying the best of health, having gained con siderable in weight. Mr. John George, the locomotive I fireman, who killed Engineer A. li. Brown last week, is in jail awaiting trial, and lias engaged S. M. Smith and Ex-Gov. Cole L. Blease to de fend him. Mr. Blease was in Edge field Sunday conferring with Mr. Smith. Mr. Carroll Rainsford left Tues day for Annapolis to take a special course preparatory to standing the entrance examination to the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Ho was accompanied by his father, Mr. Th os. II. Ra i ns ford, who will re turn to Edgefield Saturday. Ex-Gov. J. C. Sheppird' received a letter from his son, Mr. James 0. Sheppard, several days ago which was written while he was en routt from Liverpool to "somewhere in France." One by one our boys are going to the front, and consequently our interest becomes more and more intense. Mr. W. II, Turner and Misses Kate Samuel and Ruth Lyon have returned from a stay of two weeks in New York, where they made large purchases of spring merchandise for The Corner Store. While in the metropolis they experienced some thing of zero weather. Their trip, however, was a very pleasant and profitable one. Sunday morning tho Sunday school of the Baptist church accept ed the resignation of Mr. W. B. Cogburn as superintendent and elected Mr. J. H. Cantelou as his successor. The school passed a res olution of thanks to Mr. Cogburn for his faithful service in the past. In the election of Mr. Cantelou, the Sunday has acted wisely. Mr. D. B. Hoi lin irs worth receiv ed a telegram yesterday from the. surgeon at the aviation training camp near San Antonia, Texas, stating that his son is desperately ill with pneumonia. Mrs. Hollings worth left at once to be with her son in bis illness, and will probably reach San Antonia sc me time Thurs day night. Our entire community has been greatly depressed since the telegram reached Edgefield. j Miss Eva Adaras, one of the twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George Adams of Colliers left Monday for New Orleans to join her brother, Dr. G. B. Adams, who is associated with one of the leading hospitals of that city. She will hil a clerical position in Dr. Adams' office. Miss Eva will be greatlj- missed by her friends in the Colliers community. Blocker Road Improved. Mr. P. L. Timmerman has had the Blocker road dragged from his home down as far as Mr. R. II. Nicholson's, greatly improving that much-used highway. Now if some public spirited citizens will under take the dragging of the remaining portion it will make the heavy haul ing of this season very much lighter on the faithful beasts of burden. Who will come to their assistance? Civic League. Monday afternoon the Civic League held a very encouraging meeting at the residence of Mrs. li. G. Shannonhouse, A good attend ance showed the faithful and abid ing interest of the membership in the laudable purposes of the organi zation. Among the accomplish ments of the month reported, was the sale of smileage books to the amount of *?0.00, Twenty-tive dollars was contrib uted to the "Community Centre," the work fostered by the Federa tion of clubs, of which the Civic League is a part. Plans were laid for the continu ance of spring work at the ceme tery. Everybody is invited to the opera house ou Friday evening of this week to the Lyceum lecture to hear the "thrilling war talk" of Sergeant John T. Flab i ff, member of the fa mous "Princess Pat" regiment of Canada, an American boy. D. A. R. Meeting. The February meeting of the Daughters American Revolution will meet on February 20, at the home of Mrs. J. L. Muns. This will be a Washington programme as well as to contain the splendid Indian history, and the folk lore stories so entertainingly given at the meetings by Miss Anna Clisby, who has added so much to our win ter meetings. There will be the demonstration of some youthful musical talent, and a delightful treat in the hearing of a reading from Mrs, L. D. Crouch of Trenton. All members will be delighted to hear Miss Miriam Norris sing that beautiful patriotic selection, "Keep the Home Fires Burning." The following is the programme: Roll Call-Items in the life of George Washington. Paper-Cherokee Indians, Mrs. Agatha A. Woodsoo. Indian Folk Lore Logetids, Miss Annie Clisby. Violin Solo-George Tompkins. Paper: (4eorgc Washington's Vis it to South Carolina, Mrs. J. W. Peak. Reading-Mrs. L. D. Crouch, Trenton. Vocal Solo: "Keep the Home Fires burning," Miss Miriam Nor ris. Election of delegates to National Congress. Offering for French Or phan. Payment of annual dues. Frances Willard Day to be Observed. On Sunday afternoon, February .2+, at 3:30 o'clock lhere will be a service held in the Methodist church in memory of Frances Willard, known throughout our nation and the world as the "apostle of temper ance." The address will be deliv ered by Rev. W. S. Brooke of the Johnston Baptist church. There will be good music and a gold medal contest, entered by nine boys and <rirls of the county sing ing temperance or patriotic songs, all of whom have already won sil ver medals. They are as follows: Elliott Lewis and Ora Belle Per ry, Johnston: John Owen Smith and Daisy Smith, Harmony; Susan Mathis, Trenton; William Jones, Julian Minis, Dozier Tompkins and Corrie Cheatham, Edgefield. The names of the selections and programme in detail will be pub lished in next week's papers. NOTICE!?^ CREDITORS. Notice is hereby given to all per sons indebted to the estate of F. E. Randall, deceased, to make pay ment to either of the undersigned. And all persons holding claims against the said estate should pre sent them for payment to either of tiie undersigned properlv attested. W, II. PARDU Ii, R. I). RIPLEY. Executors. Jan. lt?, IVIS. Modification of Pound-for Pound Law to Relieve Far mers. The National Food Administration 1 has modified the pound-foi-pound flour regulation by adopting a sug gestion wh'ch was agreed upon at a conference of county food admin istrators in Columbia last week call ed by State Food Administrator, William Elliott. The modification will permit a farmer who uses meal ground from the corn which he pro duces on his farm tc purchase flmr j without being forced to purchase an equal weight oi meal or some other substitute for flour. A farmer will be allowed to take his corn to a mill er and have it ground into meal, signing a certificate which the miller I will have, stating the number he has in family, or the number of tenants for which he buys, and the amount of flour he has on hand. He will agree to use in his home equal weights of flour and substitutes. Thereupon the miller will issue a certificate to thc farmer stating the number of pounds of meal ground. This certificate is then filed with a grocer and thereupon the farmer can purchase an equal weight of flour, but in no case in excess of one-half barrel. The adoption of this modification | eliminates practically the only fea ture of the law whioh has met with opposition in South Carolina. It must be understood, however, that this modification, by the adop tion of the certificate plan, DOES NOT BECOME EFFECTIVE until blank certificates have been furnish ed the millers by the government. They arc now being printed and as soon as I receive them from Mr. El liott, thc State Food Administrator, I will send them out to the school district representatives of the food administration, and they will place j them in the hands of the millers. I Until the certificates are issued by i the millers in regular form, the j pound-for-pound law must be observ ed by merchants as heretofore. All other consumers, other than farm J era who are supplied with certifi cates, will be required to purchase pound-for-pound substitutes for flour at thc time flour is purchased. The sugar shortage will soon be relieved, as the present supply of sugar is reasonably adequate, but the shipping facilities are limited. It will probably be some time, how ever, before the restriction upon the sale of sugar is raised. The season of the year has come when our people should be concern ed about the INCREASE, as well as the CONSERVATION, of the food supply. Not only the supply ing of his own needs, but the high prices which prevail for all food stuffs should cause farmers gener ally to plant largely (and fertilized well) of all food crops. The food administrators in thc rural districts and the citizens gen erally are urged to agitate and edu-1 cate the people along the line of planting largely-more largely than heretofore-of all food crops, both for man and beast. J. L. MIMS, County Food Administrator. Dr. E. M. Lightfoot Coming Friday Afternoon at 4:00 O'clock. At the invitation* of the Baptist Woman's Mission Society, Dr. E. M. Lightfoot, Camp I'astor at Camp Jackson will come over from Co lumbia and deliver an address on ''Camp Evangelism." As Dr. Lightfoot has agreed to come, the meeting will be open to every one, and all the men, women and chil dren of Edgetield are cordially in vited to attend themeeliug, begin ning at 4 o'clock. Every one interested in the camp life of our boys and the religious influences which environ them will be greatly interested in this occa sion. Miss Miriam Norris will sing that beautiful and pathetic selec tion, "Keep the Home Fires Burning till the Roys come home," with pipe organ accompaniment. . Johnston Loses. The basket ball leam from John ston High School was defeated last Friday by the High School team of North Augusta. The game was played in North Augusta and was the best of the four games played by the Johnston lads this season. For North Augusta, Woodward was the star, scoring 10 of the -J4 points. Simmons for Johnston, caged 5 field goals and one free throw, making ll of the 10 points made by his team. .Final score: Johnston 10, North Augusta All the Johnston men did splendid team work and that's what it takes to win. North Augusta will proba bly play Johnston on the fifteenth at Johnston. . J. Trenton,--S. C. Your Last Chance i IThe weather has been good for sev eral days, and all who had cotton to I pick should be ready to gin now. I I will operate my gin next I Tuesday and Wednesday February 19th and 20th All who have cotton to gin pl?ase get it here sure S one of these days, as I positively will not run another I day this season. I" All who has seed cotton to sell bring it here before the above dates if possible. If you need any Fertilizer see me. I can make you an attractive price. Have a small amount of Sixteen I Per Cent Acid I can save you some money on. J. G. ALFORD AT OIL MILL EDGEFIELD, S. C. WANTED Crocus Bags, any size. Bring them to our store anti we will pay market price for tb,em. DAITCH BROS. Next Door to the Farmers Bank ?acifcSe?y s &s*nSca ???!ve The Bss? Salve En The World. A. H. Corley, Surgeon Dentist Appointments at Trenton On Wednesdays. DR J.S. BYRD, Dental Surgeon OFFICE OVER POSTOFFICE Residence 'Phone 17-R. Office 3. Duing the session of the Legisla ture my clients may see me at my office on Monday and Saturday of each week. lu the meantime they can either write rae at Edgefield or Columbia, and all matters will have prompt attention. B. E. NICHOLSON, i Jan. 7, 101S. jp ?l ir S m m LIT We call the attention of our tanner friends throughout Edgefield county to our large stock of Plantation Hardware Can supply them with plow steels, plow stocks, plow gears, harness, shop tools, and everything in our linc at very reasonable prices. We buy in large quantities and can sell very close. Large Stock of Winchester Loaded Shells for Hunters J Call to see US when in Augusta HARDWARE DEPARTMENT OF E. M. Andrews Furniture Company 1289 Broad Street AUGUSTA, GA.