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EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1920 NO. 49 JOHNSTON LETTER. No Public Meetings Held Yet. Death of Mr. and Mrs. Darnell. Mr. and Mrs Hardy Entertain. There were several cases'of. influ enza developed during the week, and all meetings and gatherings are still called off. It has not been de cided when the school will resume ac tivities. Clara Ryan, an estimable colored nurse, died in Florida, having been in an automobile accident, and her body was brought here on Sunday to the home of her mother. She was con . sidered a fine nurse and both white ! and colored regret her death. 'Mr. Earl H. Smith spent several days of the past week in Atlanta. Mrs. John Fleming Marsh is at home after a visit of a week to her parents at Batesburg. Last week we chronicled the death of Mrs. Darnell of influenza which, occurred in Charlotte. Later it was learned that Mr. Darnell also^died a few days after his-wife's death of the same disease, in a hospital in Char lotte, N. C. Mr. Darnell was a resi dent here for sometime and associ ated in the garage of Mr. W. J. Hatch er. They left a little child about two years old. It is probable that the child will be adopted by a Johnston couple as they have made a request for it. Miss Louella Howard entertained a number of her young friends on Friday evening with a valentine party this being in compliment to her friend Mr. Watson Nickerson, who was leaving for Columbia. ju . Everyone enjoyed the valentine j* box and much fun was had as these j S were delivered, and guesses as to the ! I sender were made. Progressive con versation and music aided in the evening's pleasures. ^ Delicious jelly, whipped cream !c and cake were served. On last Thursday Mrs. Satcher and Mr. Jesse Franklin were married here at the home of the bride by Rev. W. j t S. Brooke. They will make their j I home in the Philippi section,- where* 8 the groom resides. 1 Miss Azilee Yonce entertained sev- r eral of her friends with a spend-the-'t day p?rty on Saturday, Valentine j <1 Day, and in the afternoon a party | c was had, which all the young people j c greatly enjoyed. ii Mr. Walter Sawyer is having hisjr home, which is situated in the su-jt burbs, remodeled. This is a prettily jv ci r located place, and when finished will be a beautiful dwelling. Mr. John Brown has purchased the j * Elbert Vance place, but will not take possession until next year. Mrs. M. E. Norris and Mrss Sara Norris have gone to Atlanta for alf two weeks' stay. |I Mrs. W. W. Satcher of North Au- 11 gusta has been for a visit to the fam ily of Mr. and Mrs^ Pope Perry. I The family of Mr. Will Collins r has moved into the dwelling which s the family of Mr. Bill Berry vacated, ? r to go into their newr home. Dr. and Mrs. C. V. Smith are vis iting their daughter, Mrs. Wilmot Ouzts. Mr. William Lott is at home from a business trip to North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Suber of Saluda have come here to make their home and at present are in the home of their daughter, Mrs. Mike Crouch. About two weeks ago their home was burn ed and they barely escaped, nothing being saved and no insurance. Mr. Suber has purchased a home near town. Mrs. W. S. Brooke has been quite sick for several days. Mr. O. D. Black went to AbbeviPo last week to attend the marriage of his cousin. Mr. Calhoun Black. Messrs. Ben L. Stevens and Joe Payn* of Meeting Street wpre visit ors here during the past week. Mrs. Allen and little daughter of Augusta, have been visiting Mrs. Fulmer. Mrs'. W. E. LaGrone and children have been visiting the former's moth er in Aiken. Mr. Watson Nickerson has gone >o Columbia to accept a position with his brother. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hardy enter tained with a delightful dining at their spacious home one day last week. John M. Denny, a former Johnston c V?ost Attractive Business Plact Have you visited recently the mos ittractive business place in - Edge field? We refer to the sales room md garage of Yonce & Mooney oi Main Street. The new building am its modernly equipped offices am salesrooms would do credit to an; :ity in this part of the country. Thi s the Edgefield home of the Fon :ars and tractors. In the rear of th: Duilding is the mechanical depart nent where sick Fords are. mad. veli again-a real Ford hospital. Am me, best part about it for Ford pa ;rons is that nothing but sick Fon :ars are treated here. They special ze on the cars they sell, using rea ?ord parts and making all repairs ii ;he best manner possible. Giving al )f their time and attention to thi1 me line of cars, it is only reasonabb o say that they become more exper n working on these particular car; h?n do mechanics who repair al :ars that come along. Have you' .'ord cars repaired by Ford meehan cs. That is what Yonce & Mooney irge upon their patrons and the} lave good ground for it. Better plac< rour order for a Ford car NOW, i: rou want a business or pleasure cai or the early summer. "First com3 irst served," is the never-to-be-vio ated rule of this establishment. Clemson College Notes. Cdgefield Advertiser: The Athletic Association of Clem on College met recently and electee he following officers: President 'rof. D. H. Henry; Secretary auc ?reasurer, Afr. Jule Carson; Footbul nanager, S. L. Cathcart; Assistuni nanagers, M. P. Fuller and M. W Jams; Assistant baseball manager C. Cothran. President Henry announced thai ]oach Jiggs Donahue would be bael ?ext season to act as head footbal oach. Clemson College authorities, alum ii and students are glad t? welcome wo more alumni as' members of thi loard of trustees. These are Majoi lenry C. Tillman, '03, of Greenwoor md Mr. W. D. Barnett. '10, of Co umbia. Three other graduates wht lave recently taken high place witt he Bureau o.f Soil Improvement arc . C. Pridemore, '09, of Cherokee ounty; C. A. McLendon^ '08 of Le? ounty and F. H. Jeter, 'll, of Mar on county. The first two are agrono nists and the last is agricultural ed or for the Bureau, the chief oi ihich is Prof. J. M. Harper, formorl} lirector of the agricultural depart nent at Clemson. rebruary 12, 1920. Last Lyceum Attraction. Remember March 11th is the dat( br the last lyceum attraction. ^Jh< Matforni" of Chicago says of Booti jowrey : "Sam Jones once said of Booti ,o\vrey: 'As a humorist and philoso >her he's got us all beat.' A man oi cholarly attainment, he has though nuch, felt much, suffered much aughed much and he is always read} vith a tonic or a square meal, as thi ludience or occasion may demand J?rn in the far South in the earl.? ixties, he was cradled to the rattle ?f the heavy musket and the roar o he cannon, and I might say thc- clanl ?f the sword, for his father was : :eneral on the Southern side in tha :reat struggle. Small wonder he i: iramatic and full of tender pathos spending as he did his early boyhooe >n a southern plantation in the per ume of the jasmine, the magnolh ind the cotton bloom, it is smal conder that he is a poet. Roamin;, he fields and forests with the litth nckaninnies, gathering wild flower: inder southern skies and listening i; he evening under the southern mooi o the rhythmic^ongs and the wein uperstitions of the negroes aroun; he cabins, it is therefore small won 1er that the Southjs making its bou o him as the prince of writers in ne. ,rro fofk lore. "Booth Lowrey cannot be put oi )aper; you must see him, hear.him tudy him. Dr. Homer T. Wilson, af er hearing him in two popular lee ures and eight educational lectures lays: 'As manager of Chautauqua: or fuorteen years I have neve: leard his equal.' " >oy, now ?of Columbia, was in towi ast week. He is a popular "knigh >f the grip." 2 ?Miss Florence Mims Writei From Boston. Dear Advertiser: I sometimes think that if I could photograph the thing I have to say to you, things that I plan and try tc write, perhaps the picture would not y^>e a displeasing one. When I sit and try to send my thoughts through thc medium of a pen point they become musty and sordid, the sort of things that you read anywhere. I have the desire to be distinctive, but "the best laid plans of mice and men do .aft gang a glee." > It is quite a coincidence that this particular quotation should hffve come into my mind, for I had the pleasure of seeing such a lovely statue of Robert Burns the otnei day, which I had planned to writ? about in this article. Sometimes I have to take far trips for ,my inspiration, and then again 1 walk one block from my . room and see something worth while. That, is what I did yesterday afternoon. This statue of Burns, recently erected by one of the societiea organized to perpetuate his memory, I stands alone in the Fenway Park, [surrounded by trees and shrubbery. ? I tramped through . the ice-crusted 'snow and on reaching it found about eight little children sliding down the snow banks at the base of it. They each had a tiny little sled about three feet longhand each one seemed cb be having the time of his life. One little girl asked me if I would not like to coast down the hill. I sat on the sled behind her and went rushing down the incline with perfect safety. When ?I told her that I had never seen any ' ?thing of the sort till I came to 'ios ' 'ton, she asked if I came from Texas, ' ?which was. the most distant place she . had learned in her geography, maybe. '(Then one of the little boys explained ! .the technique of guiding the sled and (suggested that I go down aloue. Since il am more daring_than I dare to be Jlieve,T"g?t on, but forgetting al' my ' newly acquired knowledge, rolled headlong in the snow, which was part I of the sport. j Then I came back and looked at f ?the statue, for since I have become 'grown I have to put away childish [ things. \ J In one hand the great Scotchman \ ?held a book and in the other t stair 'and what seemed to be a/Scottish ?bagpipe, and his dog stood at* his side, j His dop: and books were perhaps h . best friends, as they are in many in J stances of all mankind. Tho face 'gave one the impression that he was ?seeing far things, visions not of this j world, which he embodied in his I poetry. That is the proof of a great statue, j that one forgets it is marble and secs ' i only the artist's thought through it. ' j And the other proof that this w:is a 1 j beautiful and true thing was that it made me entertain certain thoughts 1 ?as lofty ns the idealism of the man. Very soon I am going to near a great living Scotchman, Harry Lau der, who . can interpret in still an other way, through his versatile skill, the real romance of Burns' native Hand, Scotland. , FLORENCE MIMS. Honor Roll of Antioch School. For Month Ending February 6. Tenth Grade: Elizabeth Brunson, Lucile Brunson, Ruth Quarles, Dab ney Talbert, Zola Walker. Seventh Grade: Mabel Talbert, Albert Walker, Eva Walker. Sixth Grade: Sam Brunson. Fifth Grade: Moody Holmes, Ar lie Hamilton, Grover Talbert, Amos Bussey. Fourth Grade: James Talbert, Charlie Jones, William Quarles, Mary Bell Graves, Susan Walker, Fannie Hamilton. Third Grade: John Graves, Craf ton Holmes. Second Grade: Juanita Gardner. First Grade: Viola Talbert, Eliza beth Qraves, Tyler Gardner, Hattie Holmes Carlton Quarles, Harold Tal bert, Ollie Holmes. Card From Stanmore Townes. Dear Advertiser: I'm plumb out of paper and cigars tonight, Mr. Editor, and no gas for my Packard Pullman. Shall be with you next week. S. B. TOWNES. P. 0. Box 100, Indian Head, Md. ,, 7 i Good News Letter From Har dys Community. I have seen two such nice letters L from the Sweetwater* school, that 1 j thought you might think we were en tirely off of the map, now that our ; Hardys correspondent has left us, 1 but we are still joggling to school as : usual and having a pretty good time . between times. i We have had quite a time getting to school in North Augusta, having ? to drive six miles every morning, but i we know it is worth while, as we have (Kine of the finest schools in the stati and one of the best corps of teachers , we have ever had. The school is doing splendid work in each grade. Mr. Lanham, our beloved pastor preached for us Sunday. He is filling the pulpit until we can get another pastor, as he has resigned. We all ; love and respect him and shall miss him very much. Mrs. Julian Townes has just re turned from Mrs. Jas. McClane's, where she has been for a few days. We all/niss her when she is off, and are glad when she comes home as she is one of our good. Samaritans. We have had quite a number of cases of flu in our neighborhood. Mr. Bunch's? children, Merrsr Ed Foucher, Frank Townes and Mrs Wise and children, but am glad to tell you that our fine young Dr. Mathis has been very successful in treating them al!., and they are on. the road to recovery. The farmers are getting very anx ious to get to plowing ?gain as the rain has kept'them back for several weeks. There is very little cotton.talk in our neighborhood. They are all fencing their lands and beginning to talk stock raising, dairying and plant ' ing grains before* the boll weevil gets us Mrs. Ellie Brigs and Mrs. T. J. Briggs have gone to Florida for a lit j ?tie visit to Mr. John Luther Briggs. KgK* are so glad they are having-such a good time, but we can't spare them very long. When "Miss Nell" is out of our neighborhood we all are just lost until she returns, lt is hard for us to tell which gives us more pleasure every week, Miss Florence Minis or Mr. Stanmore Townes. They both write and de scribe wonderfully. A. M. j Beautiful Party at "Hill Crest" ,' The winter social season reached ? a climax Thursday afternoon, Feb ruary 12th, in the beautiful bridge tea at "Hill Crest." Misses Mary and Katherine Butler, assisted by their attractive nieces, Misses Emma and Katherine Thomp son, received thc guests in the spa cious hall of their typically Southern home. ( In the living room, Mrs. Kate De Vere Butler and Dr. Preston DeVore extended their genial welcomes, and here the guests who did not play bridge enjoyed a conversational af ternoon. Eight tables for bridge were ar ranged in the lovely adjoining parlor and dining room, and a number of progressive games entertained the merry, players. Mrs. J. G. Alford made the highest score and was presented with an ex quisite cut glass sauce boat, inlaid with a dainty gold bead design. Mrs. Edwin Folk and Miss Anna Bee tied for the consolation, Miss Bee ?utting high, secured the box of delicious \ confections. An elaborate salad course with hot chocolate, whipped cream and that truly southern dainty, delicious sweet wafers, were served. The gracious hospitality that gives to every function at "Hill Crest" an indescribable charm made this beau tifully planned tea a brilliant climax to pre-Lenten festivities. MRS. P. M. FELTHAM. Happy Occasion. On Friday at 6 o'clock, Mr. R. H. and Miss Sallie May Nicholson wera guests at a delightful four course turkey dinner at their home at Ce dar Grove. The guests were Misses Elizabeth and June Rainsford, Miss es Sophie, Katherine and Sadie Mims, Misses Charlotte Strother, Mamie Dunovant, Helen Nicholson, Mary Hughes and Messrs. George Adams, Paul Cogburn, Sam Hughes, John Hollingsworth and Prof. C. F. Brooks. Uplifting Occasion. On last Wednesday evening at the Baptist church a very delightful and remarkable occasion took place, when the churches united in a service to hear Mr. N. A. Boyajian, an Arme nian law student at the South Caro linna University: Mr. Boyajian is also a graduate of Emory College in med icine and an A. B., B. S. of Birming ham College. He is a Methodist by church affiliation, and will finish his law course at the University pre paratory to returning to his own country in June. The address was full of humor, life, pathos and left a d?ep impres sion on the minds and hearts of all who heard. The meeting was presided over by Mr. T. B. Greneker, the devotions conducted by Rev. G. W. M. Taylor of the Methodist church and the ben ediction pronounced by Rev. L. A. Peatross of the Episcopal church. The Baraca orchestra played "Be lieve me if all those endearing young charms." This orchestra is composed of Messrs Claude Lyon and Irving Padgett, cornets; Mrs. E. S. Rives and Miss R?sela Parker, violinists; saxaphone, Mr. George F. Mims and bass horn, Mr. Madison Tucker. Little Ned Nicholson gave the "Cry of the children," adapted to the occasion from Mrs. Browning's won derful poem. The speaker was in troduced by Dr. R. G. Lee. At the close of the address Mr. Boyajian made a nappeal for his na tive people and about $1,200 was pledged for the martyred nation of Armenia. A vocal duet sung by Miss Miriani Norris and Mrs. R. G. Lee was "Be not afraid." Sweetwater Gleanings. The weather for the past week has been pretty much of all kinds except iry. The boll weevil has had plenty of chances to wash his face in the dew without having to break the ice. The night of the 14th and the whole of the loth made him put on his overcoat and draw nigh unto the warm corners as the thermometer sought the low levels on those dates. Mrs. S. W. Gardner, Sr., was real ?ll for a few days last week but her condition had improved a gi'eat deal and she was well on the road to re covery the last we heard from her. The friends of Mrs. J. -T. Reese are glad to learn that she is improving from a recent operation of tonsilitis. She is spending some time until her recovery at the home of her mother, Mrs. H. C. Robinson, of Augusta. Mesdames E. G. and T. J. Briggs ai-e visiting Mr. John Luther Briggs in Florida. They write that they are having a great time. Dr. J. T. Reese and Mr. F. B. Bar ker went to Edgefield last Wednes day to bring back a new, up-to-date "Tin Lizzie." But when the doctor's old car gave the new one a few dots as to the condition of the roads down in these parts, the new car absolute ly refused to leave your town. Now, both Dr. Reese and Mr. Bar ker are expert Ford nurses, a^nd as sured the young Miss Ford of the best treatment in their power, but they couldn't prevail on her to pull down hill when her face was turned towards our roads. Maybe"Mr. Broad water can' induce her to come this way on promises. We hear that the "flu" has been raging all around us, but so far have heard of very few cases in this neigh borhood. We had a Valentine Box at Sweet water school house Friday which was enjoyed by all. Our teachers work overtime to make our school inter esting as well as instructive. We have a very flourishing Liter ary Society which promises to turn out some able orators of the mascu line sex and some brilliant suffra gettes frc.u the fairer sex. There will be an Oyster Supper given at Sweetwater School on the night of Friday, February 27, at 7:30 o'clock. All friends and patrons of the school are cordially invited. Proceeds wilj go toward school im provement. "SWEET WATER SCHOOL." MONEY TO LEND On proved real estate, town and country. Short and long terms/ ' T. B. GRENEKER, Attorney. tf. Home Demonstration Notes for February; Garden: Sow in hot-beds-egg plants, tomatoes and pimentos. -Last of the month sow in open ground early peas, spring kale* beets, spin ach, carrots, celery, radish and pars ley. Set out asparagus roots, onion sets, horse radish roots and hardy lettuce plants. Early planting of po tatoes can be made. Poultry: Remember to hatch chick ens early, as early hatched Rullecs make best winter layers. Each year thousands of eggs are lost after the eggs have been put under the broody hen. The setting, hen is usually placed in an open place where other hens are allowed to molest her. This re sults in many broken and chilled eggs and poor hatches result. When given proper attention the . hen is the best and most valuable in cubator for the'farm, but the follow ing factors must be observed: The nests should be properly constructed. Take a soap box 16 inches square and &. inches deep. Fill in with at least 2 inches of moist soil or turf. Mold the shape of the nest, filling in the corners with the soil. After this com plete the nest with either good straw or hay. Broody hens should be transferred to permanent sitting nest at night and allowed to sit on China or nest eggs for a day or two before trusting them with good eggs. ' . In order to protect the sitting hen, a light wire frame should be con structed which will rest directly over the nest. It should be about 10 inches high ' to allow ample room for the hen while resting on the eggs. After the eggs are placed under the hen she should not be disturbed for two days. After the second day she should be taken off once each day till the 18th day. She should be al lowed to remain away from the* eggs from 10 to 30 minutes depending up on the temperature. Whole corn is thc best food for sit ting hens. Never feed them moist mash as that is too easily digested. Water, grit and a dust bath should al ways be provided. ' , All eggs should be tested on the seventh day which makes it possible to reset some of the hens. Toe-mark chicks when hatched. This enables to tell age of chicks and also breeding when they become ma tured. It is important to .give an applica tion of insect powder to a hen before placing her on a setting of eggs.. So dium^Flouride is strongly recommend ed, but in case it is not available, use any good powder. Give the hen a second dusting on the 17th day. In the way the chicks^ when hatched, wlil be free from lice. (Copied from Winthrop Specialists' . reports.)' c ,.y... . ' Planning Meals. k~ , The housewife who wants a healthy family always manages to give during the day some of all five classes of food-protein, carbohy drates, fats, mineral matter and wa ter. Another thing she should include are the foods containing vitamines. A vitamine is a growth promoting substance -which only exists in milk, eggs, in the liver and kidneys of an imals and in leafy vegetables. Any individual attempting to live on a di et that contains no vitahflnes devel ops all thefsymptoms of malnutrition and is readily susceptible to disease. Since the vitamine is invaluable to the human being, sonje food contain ing this growth-promoting substance shoved be given a place in the daily meals of every family. , \ County Health Nurse. * ^ Edgefield is very fortunate in hav ing already in our midst an emergen cy nurse, Miss Grace Brumbaugh. She is an experienced nurse and on call of the physicians of our county is glad to help in case of emergency. She has already been a great comfort in a number of cases, and the more needy the subject the nore, happy she is to render assistance. In many places Red Cross nurses, are being imported from other places to assist in the local situation, and nurses are having to be trained for service. Everywhere the County Health Nurse idea is growing in favor, as the bene fits to be derived from it are observ ed.