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?t?ts? ??eu>Hpaper ?n &mrtb (festina VOL. 84 EDGEFIELD, S, C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1920 No. 7 JOHNSTON LETTER. Annual Sunday Rally- Car Load Tobacco Shipped, Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Ouzts Entertain. Sunday, Sept. 12, was the Annual Rally. Day at the Baptist church, and the day was a great one, the Sunday School beginning the with 358 present Since the organization of this church, its members have always been earnest, loyal supporters in both at tendance and gifts, and this annual day but marked another milestone in its many years of work for the master. After Sunday school all gathered in the auditorium, and after the prelim inary service with special music, the church roll was called by clerk J.L. Walker, and a report of the work of the church for the year was given, which was a wonderful one, the cam paign aiding this. The sermon by Dr.C. J. Thompson which was most appropriate, and was a fine and scholarly one. Acting Postmaster, J. H. Payne, has received notice from the Post Of fice Department, Washington, that he may close the Post office at John ston, at 5 o'clock instead of 6 o'clock, as heretofore as the hours are too long. The following are hours observed: 7: A. M. to 5: P. M. Returning at 7:30 to meet the South bound train. The Womans' Missionary Society of the Baptist church has abolit suffi cient funds on hand to purchase the dining room furniture for the new Baptist school near Speigner's, that has been adopted by the Ridge asso ciation. Rev. Posey is in charge of this I school, which is in a community where j such was in great need. The tobacco product, at date, is very gratifying, this being the ship ping point of the vicinity. Three car loads, of 30,000 pounds of the leaf has been shipped. Mrs. David Philips, of Springfield, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Mary Waters. The recent meeting- of the W.C.T.U. held with Mrs. J. A. Lott concerned chiefly, the coming state convention, to be held here Sunday, Oct. 3, to5. All committees to faciilitate the work of the entertaining union ware ready with reports, and the hospitality com mittee is still busyi The delegates are expected to arrive on Saturday even ing's trains. The convention will be held at the Baptist church. On Mon day and Tuesday lunch will be served here for all delegates and W. C. T. U. members. Guests this week of Mrs. Joseph Cox are her sister, Mrs. Hammes of Jonesville, and Miss Routt. On Wed., j nesday these with Mrs. John Wright, went over to Batesburg to attend the Methodist Conference. Mrs. Jessie Rushton has gone to Clio to teach and Miss Eva Rushton leaves in a few days to resume charge of her same school duties. Mrs. Gall and family have gone to Leesviille to join Mr. Gall, who is cashier of the local bank. Miss Leone Gall has entered Win throp college. Miss Annie Crouch attended the weddings of her two class mates at Bennettsville, recently, acting as a bride's maid. These two brides were Miss Annie Mowry and Miss Annie Carroll. Mesdames, J. M. Turner and B. T. Adams are at home from a visit to their sister, Mrs. Sallie Stanfield, at Aiken. An occasion that was of great pleasure to everyone present was that of Thursday afternoon when Mrs.J. Howard Payne and Mrs. Earl Smith jointly entertained, this being in the home of the latter. The rooms were fragrant with bas kets of flowers, and here and there on the large piazza twenty tables for Rook were arranged. After cordial Greetings, and receiving a place card, an animated game ensued; music be ing enjoyed during the time. Pink and white block cream was served, with pound cake. f Messrs. Philomon Waters, Samuel Watson and Jacob Smith will leave thisweek for Bailey Military Institute. Miss Annie Stokes left on Friday to take charge of a school in the upper part of the state. The friends of Mrs. M. E. Norris are delighted to see her out again af _ ter a two weeks prostration from- a severe fall which she received. Mrs. Harry Hamilton, whom every one so pleasantly remembers as Miss Lucile Mobley, was operated on last Thursday, at University Hospital, University, Va. for goitre. The news comes that she is doing well following this. Her mother,Mrs. Ann Mobley has been with her most of the Summer. Mrs. Calhoun Kammer entertained the young matrons club in a very happy manner on Friday afternoon, and her home was artistically decora ted in golden rods. Two tables of Rook were arranged, and the members and visitors all en joyed this. Chocolate and white block cream and cake were served, srhmf ipnu7SO?n ltNsa^yerc ' eta On Saturday afternoon, Mesdames J. L. Walker and Wilmot Ouzts enter tained about forty of their friends in a charming manner, in the home of the former. As the guests arrived they were refreshed with punch served by Mis ses Bettie Waters and Marie Lewis. On the Rook tables were bon bon dishes of chocolate to enjoy during the game. After a pleasant game, a variety of sandwiches and iced tea were ser ved. Mrs. W. E. LaGrone entertained with a bridge party on Friday morn ing in compliment to Mrs. Glenn Ison, of Spartanburg, and following the game an elaborate luncheon was ser_ ved. The guest prize was a box of1 chocolats. 1 Mrs. G. D. Walker was hostess_for the PiTau Club on Wednesday after noon, there being several guests, with the members. After music and conversation all enjoyed a game of Rook. The hostess, assisted by Mrs. Mims ' Walker and Miss Orlena Cartledge served a tempting salad course. Mr. George Hubbard, a former res ident, has purchased a home in Au gusta and is now residing there. Miss Crawford will spend the win ter months in the home of Mr. and Mrs. B.T. Boatwright, and will act in the capacity of governess. Report of Meeting of Music Club. . Mrs, H. C. Mitchell was hostess for an unusually interesting meeting of the Philharmonic Club for September. After the business was dispensed with, Miss Elizabeth Rainsford took charge of the musical program, which was taken from the music of olden days. Mrs. Madison Tucker sang very beautifully "The Shrine" which every one enjoyed. Miss Elizabeth Smith who is an accomplished pianist played a lovely piano solo. Mrs. J. L.Mims and Mrs. Tillman Played a piano duet which was followed by "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" by Miss Rainsford. Mrs. H. C. Mitchell who is a fav orite pianist in the club played "Alice, Where Art Thou?" with her usual skill and beautiful touch. After the program the hostess ar_ ranged an interesting contest, the name of the composer Rubenstein being used to make as many words as possible from. Mrs. Mamie Tillman the President, was awarded the prize, a box of correspondency cards. Mrs. Madison Tucker was welcomed into the club, while Misses Hortense Woodson, Beaufort Reynolds, Harriet Holmes, Gladys Rives, and Mrs. Sa ker were visitors. The hostess served a delightful salad course and iced tea, assisted by Miss Snow Jeffries and Elizabeth Smith. Resolutions On Sabbath Breaking. Be it resolved: That we, the mem bers of the Mizpah Bible Class of Johnston Methodist church, wish to put ourselves on record as being op posed to Sunday amusements, such as airplane exhibits, baseball, bathing and any questionable amusements. Furthermore we wish to ask our County and town to do all in their power to prevent any such Sabbath breaking. Miss Rachel Scott. Miss Eva Rushton, Miss Sue Smith, Mrs. H. S. Toney, Committee. Miss Florence Mims Writes From Minnesota. Dear Advertiser: Sunday the twenty ninth, the first time in six weeks, Aurora was favored with a rain. I concluded that the, teachers brought the good luck. One? remembered that her first Sunday in every new town was a rainy day. Here nearly all streets are paved, so that one does not have to contend with mud. True to my life long custom I start.' ed to Sunday school in the morning/ got even so far as the Methodist^ church door and found it locked. La ter I learned that there is only one service during the day and that it is in the evening. The town has two churches, . a Methodist and a Catholic. 'kj* I remind myself of the type of man, often used in illustrations. He goes from his office to his home and back again, living within the boundary of one straight line. However my life is a little more complicated., a four cor nered affair, from the school to the post office and from there to my room and my boarding place. At the first place I get learning or rather dispense it, at the next I get mail, whose price is above rubies, and at the latter two, rest and food. But to continue my diary of a day, we lunch at noon, sup at six md breakfast just as late as we dare, of course. In the afternoon we stroll, for both the scenery and the company are good. This bracing air gives us appe tites that are a menace to "Hooverish" teachings. The five of our faculty who live together, and I call the five the gang not because they have the gang spirit, but rather the gang habit attended 'a church service in Aurora for the first time Sunday night. This was at seven^. thirty an hour earlier than I have been accustomed. tp.rThe. church , was;, small, but congregation smaller. I like big churches even if there is little lik_ lihood of their being filled, for it seems to offer a more extensive wel come and everyone is at all times sure of a seat. It is the same principle, it seems to me as that of hhtching your wagon to a star. Make your ideals high, though you know you will fall below them. Make them low and you may fall even correspond ingly below that. Build big places of worship and that will inspire the peo ple to attend and inspire you to go then. Though I would rather hear an excellent sei-mon in a small church than vice versa. This is what we heard, an excellent address by a man wo said that he preferred not to stand behind a pulpit, but out nearer the audience where he felt freer. His subject was power. Among other things he made the remark that the world is filled with potential pow er; what we need is, not more 01 it but a better way of han*diing it-what we possess as individuals and what we find in the outside world in the vast resources of nature. It is a better thing to spend a day in town and get an idea, than to spend a week and get a great many more things that I could think of. Florence Mims. Lovely Dinner Party. Mrs. W. C. Deloach. *was hostess last week at a delightful dinner for some of her friends, on her seventy fourth birthday. Those present were: Mrs. W.B.Cogburn, Mrs. Mar?r Norris, Mrs. Kate Cheatham, Mrs. Pamela Holland, Mrs. Kate Mims, Mrs. Barn well Jones and Mrs. Morrall. The whole day was spent in pleasant con versation and exchange of reminiscen ces, and at the noontide hour a mag nificent dinner was served. All who attended have been speaking of the occasion ever since in most glowing terms, and wish Mrs. DeLoach many happy returns of the day. Lest You Forget. Let ?me remind you that Chamber lain's Tablets not only cause a gentle movement of the bowels but improve the appetite and strengthen the di gestion. For Sale: Nine Duroc pigs three and a half months old, two young mules, one four year old and one coming three, both home raised. L. R. Brunson, Sr. Cleora, S. C. pjlt Was the Death Struggh '?jWhen Grant Confronted L< On the Rap ?dan. , ^ It is not that I wish to worry 1 ' l&oody theft, that I am writing t article but simply to prove some 1 tory by facts and by experience. Grant was put in command of t jarmy on the Potomac and crossed t Rapidan May 4, 1864. While I w ft St. Petersburg I found that all t Federals lool- upon Grant as the mc brilliant GP- al of his day, and shall prove t .9 was not. Yes, t most of thos . i e-headed Yanke Tjelieve t'. was one of t most brilli; .als, since Was ingbon. Grant was not a great coi ?bander, but\he was a man of cle brain. He saw that brute force aloi .could shatter the Army of Northe: Virginia, and had the courage to Soot that plan. We will come back the events of the Rapidan; Grai crossed the Rapidan on the4th of Mi 1864, with what resembled a coun Jess host : heavy -masses of blue infa; try with glittering bayonetts; huf ranks of rifled artillery with sui rounding cannoneers, and long co? umns of horsemen armed with sab< and repeating carbines, that made tl very earth shake and woods echo wit their heavy tramp,, mingled with th rolls of wheels. --In front of this countless host stoo a little army of gaunt and ragged me looking on and waiting without re ranting their advance. , Did they intend to dispute the pas .age of that great multitude towar 'Richmond? That was exactly their in ten lion. General Lee had 62,000 of a good fighters as the world ever saw General Grant had 200,000. Genera Lee was ready for the great collision The sixty thousand were going t< order the two hundred thousand ti ?h?lt,. As Grant began to move throug] the wilderness, General Lee strucl at him. Grant had no thought of J ?K^isiort in jhe.wldenjess^^but Lee' great mind computed with the mat! ter. He knew that Grant could not usi his artillery and cavalry as he coule in the open. On the Morning of Mai the 5th these two tigers were watch, ing each other in this tangle bot! ready to spring. Generral Lee advan. ced and delivered battle. It was hi; aim to shut up Grant in the wildernesi and drive him back beyond the Rap. idan or destroy him. It was early ir the day when these two tigei'S grap. pied with each other and thc struggle v/as long and desperate, We have General Lee's testimony tc the fact that the Federal attempts to drive back-General Hill were repeated and desperate. All failed and Hill stubbornly held the ground. At n.ght the enemy withdrew the fighting for the day was over. The two tigers had drawn back and crouched down, bleeding and panting heavily, gather, ing new strength for the fiercer con flict the next day. But the gray and blue forms that lay in the bushes did not move. This was Grant's first strike at Lee. It was not until the Federal army was at the very door of Richmond in 1862 when General Lee took command of the army of northern Virginia, when he outwitted McClellan and whipped two armies much larger than his own, stopped their advance, drove back the Federal armies, saved Richmond and ?saw such generalship. Grant was the was famous in a day. The world neer seventh General that Washington fit ted against Lee with the finest army of veterans the world ever saw. Even then Lee fought probably as no other general ever fought, and against odds that would have driven Napoleon to weep. Therefore I say Grant was not a great general. Had he been put in command of the Federal army at any time from 1861 to 1863 he would have been laid on the shelf with Scott, Mc Dowell, McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, and Mead. But in this death struggle General Lee kept together that thin gray line of ragged hungry men growing thinner and more hungry each day . His courage, his wonder ful presence and strong personality kept them in battle array, fighting to the last ditch. On the morning of the 6th of May, second day, was ushered in with thun der. The second day was more terrible than the first. The gray lines surged forward : the thicket was full of smoke j and quick flashes of flame. The woods took fire from the guns and the clouds of smoke blinded the combat, ant. At nightfall Lee'* men had. driven the enemy from their front line but nothing gained. Ten thousand dead and wounded added gloom and horrow to the wilderness that shocked the eye and sickened the heart. Grant saw his danger and there was but one thing for him to do, and that was to get out of the wilderness. Now Mr. Editor, I am going to prove some history. In two years, nine months, and nine days (1,000) days from June 1, 1862 until April 9, 1865 General R. E. Lee fought seven great campaigns against six picked generals. At its greatest his army numbered less than 85,000 men poorly equipped, badly supplied with food and clothing, yet in one thousand days it put hosr decombat more than 262,000 Federals. Thc official records in Washington show that with a deduction of 2,000 from the casualties of the campaign before June the first the killed, wounded, and missing were as fol lows: against McClellan before Rich mond, June first 1862 to August 8,18 62, the Federal loss was 22,448. A_ gainst Pope before Washington, June 26, 1862 to September 2, 1862, the loss was 16,955. Against McClellen in Maryland September 3, 1862 to No vember 14, 1862 the loss was 28,5_ 77. Against Burnside before Freder. icksburg Nov. 15, 1862 to January 25, 1862 the loss was 13,214. Against Hooker on the Rappahannock, Janu ary 26,1862 to June 27, 1862 the loss was 25,027. Against Meade on Penn sylvania June 28, 1864 the loss was 31,530. Against Grant before Rich mond May 4, 1864 to April*9, 1865, the loss was 124,390. In one thousand days Lee put out of action more than three of our army at maximum. In the campaign above mentioned, the Fed eral casualties were double the losses inflicted by the Duke of Wellington in ail of his battles Tn Indfa, Spain and at Waterloo. The killed and wounded among the Japanese at Port Arthur were less than those of Grant in his campaign. Scarcely in the history of Napoleon's twenty years can the re cord of such fighting as was done by Lee's army be paralleled. The total number of confederates paralleled at Appomattox April 9, 1865 was: offi_ cers 2,865, men 25,494, total 28"356. Of troops surrendered only about 20 000 had arms. Grant was facing Lee eleven months with about 160,000 men and the world to draw from be sides and did not know how to out fight Lee with his little band, the best fighters the world ever saw. But Grant did know how to apply brute force. From the wilderness to Peters burg Lee's army destroyed 60,000 Federals. Grant faced Lee at Peters, burg for nine months with all the men and means at his command, but . he never made an assault on Lee's lines, but he had the brute force about him to spriing a mine. In my next I will tell about the springing of the mine at Petersburg. J. Russell Wright. Big Auction Sale and Demon stration. A page advertisement in this is sue tells of a big demonstration of farm machinery and an auction sale of real estate at the Bouknight farm four miles west of Edgefield on the road to Antioch church Wednesday, September 22, at 10 o'clock. Every feature of this oc casion should be of especial inter est to farmers at this time. The old system of farming must be laid aside and new methods adopted, if farmers are to keep their heads above water and their affairs out of the bankrupt courts. The man who persists in his efforts to grow cotton, to the neglect of other crops, will soon be among the "has beens," and be can blame nobody except himself. Better lay aside the old and take on the new-pot all at one bound, but gradually. Attend the demonstration and auc tion sale. Desirable small farms will be sold at auction on easy terms. Wanted: Lumber hauled from Meeting Street. Price paid $7.00 per thousand. See B. L. Miims at Edge_ field. A. H. Forrester & Co. News From Cleora-Tribute to Mr. Williams. The boll weevil is playing havoc with the cotton crop in this section. Having destroyed all squares it is now ruining the small bolls, I don't think it is possible to make over a half crop, and late cotton wont make that. But we are for tunate to have good corn crops. I don't think I have ever seen them better. In the death of Mr. C. M. Wil liams this community lost one of its best citizens. Edgefield county never had a more patriotic citizen. Whenever any movement was start ed for the benefit of the county or community he could always be counted on to do his full duty. In. raising funds for the Ked Cross, Y. M. C. A., Salvation Army or any other good cause during the war we never had to solicit a contribu tion from him. As soon as he found who was collecting he brought or sent bis, never had to ask him. for it. Only a few days before his death when confined to his bed he sent $1.00 to the committee collect ing for our national campaign fund. He always considered it a privilege to help in any worthy,, political or benevolent cause. Mr. Williams was always ready to do all he could for anything that was for the upbuilding of his commu nity and he will be missed by the whole county. Miss Ellie Mims is spending this week with her sister, Mrs. L. R. Brunsen. Mr. Jim Gilchrist was visited by the stork last week and present ed with a fine girl baby. Mr. A. B. Holmes is spending his vacation on his farm near here. The people of this section spent last week and the week before working the public roads and put them in passably condition for the first time in about four years, and if the people below Mr. Massin gale's would work the. road from Mr.- Turner's to the Hil I place, as we have this end, we would have a good from Edgefield to Moultrie's mill. This was done at no expense to the county. We are still without teachers for the Brunson school. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Quarles have returned from the Hot Springs in Arkansas where they went a month ago for Mrs. Quarles' health. She was improved by the treatment. She has been a great sufferer for a year with Rheumatism, Uncle Iv. Morgan did'nt meet us at the association. Subscriber. Congaree Presbyterial Institute to be Held at Trenton Sep tember 28th. On Friday the 10th of September a representative body of women of the Presbyterian churches in Aiken and Edgefield Counties met ia Aiken and organized an Institute for these two counties combined. The tirst meeting will be held in Trenton in the Presbyterian church. There will be an interesting pro gram both morning and afternoon with a basket lunch on the grounds daring the hours between one and \ three. Two of \the best speakers available will be secured, and they will be glad to have the men of the church attund to hear these 3nd to enjoy with them the social get-to gether hours. Every Presbyterian woman in both counties is especially invited to be present and bring along with them any question bearing on the Presbyterial work. The Presbyterians of Trenton most heartily endorse the Institute and shall do everything within their power to welcome the visiting, members. _? .% J Fitzmaurice Beling Marriage: The following wedding announce* ment will be of great interest to friends in Edgefield where Miss Mary Ethel Fitzmaurice has been a frequent visitor in the home of her sister Mrs. James--S. Byrd. Dr. Bolin ? is one of Columbia's leading physicians. Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzmaurice announce the marriage of their daughter Mary Ethel to Dr. John Radford Boling on Wednesday, September the eighth one thousand nine hundred and twenty at Colum bia South Carolina.