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?Weal Jfeu^apcr la VOL. 86 EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1921 No; 12 JOHNSTON LETTER. School Will Close May 20th. Young Matron's Club Met Tuesday. Sunbeams Fin ish. Mission Study. Rev. Fitch of Ward, filled the pul pit on Sunday morning at the Baptist church and gave a fine discourse. Mr. Fitch is superintendent of the Ward school, being both a preacher and a teacher: A representative from Clemson Col lege was here last week and visited the High School with the view of presenting the advantages and needs of an agricultural department in the school. The visitor was highly pleased with the work of the school, and praised the work of the manual train ing class, saying that from his point of view, this course and that of agri culture were essential. It is hoped that in the near future steps for the department of agriculture can be taken. The High School will .'close May 20, and already interesting features of commencement are well under way, the music department having an attractive program for one evening. A cantata is to be given on Friday evening before commencement, to ?which a small admisssion fee will be charged, the proceeds to be used in fitting up the play ground, for the children. Mr. and Mrs. Lyn L. Allen and Marjorie arrived Sunday from Akron, Ohio, to visit in the home of Mrs. Al- ; "len's mother, Mrs. Mary Waters. A warm welcome is given them as it has- been several years since they i visited here. * The Sunbeams, under the leader- i ship of Mrs. W. J: Hatcher, hare just ? concluded their mission study, which was to them exceedingly interesting, and all the papers for a final exami nation were so good that Mrs. Hatch pie garth, that she might judge them. The paper of Miss Grace Turner was considered the best, and she was pre sented by Miss Applegarth with an . attractive book. /' , Beautiful announcements of the marriage of Miss Anna Snow Jeffries to Mr. Julian Pickens Bland, have been received here, this happy event taking place on Wednesday, Api-il 20, at Knoxville, Tenn. v Mr. Bland is one of Johnston's most esteemed and popular young business men, and a cordial welcome awaits him and his fair young bride. Upon their arrival they will be domiciled in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Wal lace Turner. Rev. W. P. Brooke, pastor of the Stevens Creek and Rocky Creek churches, preached on Sunday even ing at the Baptist church, and all en joyed hearing him. He is a nephew of Rev. W. S. Brooke. Miss Bessie Bean, who is teaching at Batesburg-Leesville school spent the week-end at her home here. Mrs. James White was hostess for the New Century Club on Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. P. B. Waters presid ing. All enjoyed the report of the re cent Federation given by Mrs. Huiet Waters. Several matters were discussed, and themembers reminded to bring a suggested study topic for the new year books. An instructive program on a South ern author was had and Mrs. Milne then gave a beautiful piano selection. A sweet course was served, each, plate having a boutonneire on it. Mesdames Milne, Archie Lewis, Howard Payne assisted Miss Hallie White in serving. Mrs. Emmie Lott Beaver of Ridge Spring is visiting relatives. r. and Mrs. Watson Nickerson of Columbia have been for a visit to Mrs..Fannie Nickerson. Everyone was glad to see them and warm congratu lations were extended, their mrariage being a recent happy event. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cartledge of Greenwood have been for a visit in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Wright. Mr. Jack Milne of Tennessee spent the past week here with his family, who are guests of relatives. Mrs. Tribble and little daughter of Jonesville are'guests of the for mer's sister, Mrs. M. W. Crouch. Mr. F. Suber who has been for a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Tribble, at Jonesville, has returned to his home here. Dr. C. P. Corn attended the Medi cal association meeting last week in Columbia. Mrs. Corn accompanied him for a visit to friends. Dr. and Mrs. C. V. Smith have been for a visit to their daughter, Mrs. W. B. Ouzts. Mrs. W. C. Connerly has joined her husband at Chapel Hill, N. C. where he is taking a special course in phar macy. Miss Orlena Cartledge entertained the bridge club on Thursday after noon in a very happy manner. Sev eral tables were arranged and music was enjoyed during the game, beau tiful prizes being given. *'A delicious repast was served. Mrs. Heber Ballentine was hostess for the Young Matrons' club on Tues day afternoon, and the twelve mem bers enjoyed thoroughly the after noon spent with this cordial hostess. Music was given, and after an hour of fancy work an elaborate salad course was served. Miss Helen Walker celebrated her birthday on Saturday afternoon by having a number of her young friends with her at this time,and the young people all had a jolly time, the hostess having planned a number of amuse ments. A delicious repast was served. Everyone brought a pretty gift which they gave with good wishes. Mr. Will Carwile, of Augusta is spending a while with relatives. . Mrs. J. Neil Lott is now able to be out again after being sick for two weeks. Mrs. David Philips has returned to Springfield after a visit to her moth er and others. A number of those interested went over to Aiken on Sunday to hear Gyp sy Smith, Jr. ? w . - Camp Branch News. As you have had no news from Camp Branch for some time I will ?rive you a few offij Everybody is very busy having to plant and replant cotton and corn. Most everybody that has planted cot ton is afraid they will have to plant tiver. Corn creeping up but the crows are tryings to destroy it, and grain looking very well. Gardens growing some as Jack Frost had killed them out a great deal. Fruit in this community is about all killed except the old field plums. Think black berries will be our only sure fruit crop. * Most everybody has lots of little chickens coming on so we will have to eat black berries and chickens if the hawks will leave us any as they are very bad at this time. Mrs. Walter Foy has just returned from a pleasant visit to her mother, Mrs. Bledsoe of the Fruit Hill sec tion. We were glad to see-her return as we missed her so much while she was away. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. DeLaughter of North Augusta spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. R. DeLaughter. They came for little J. R. Jr., who has been spending some time with his grandparents. We miss him so much and hope he will come again. Mr. C. T. Burnett of -your town spent last Saturday and Saturday night in our community, and also Plum Branch Sunday. Mr. Capers De Laughter accompanied him to Plum Branch. They had a pleasant ride coming back in the cold wind, nearly frozen when they returned. Little* James Burnette is real sick at this writing. Hope he will soon be himself again. Mr. J. W. R. DeLaughter went to Augusta Sunday to hear Gypsy Smith preach. A large crowd enjoyed a birthday party at Mr. Mack Brown's last Fri day evening. Messrs Tom Burnett, Capers De-, Laughter and Julian Wash made a business trip to Edgefield Monday. "PEGGY." W. C. T. U. Meeting. The Woman's Christian Temper ance Union will hold the May meet ingon Monday, May 2, with Mrs. Kate Kernaghan and Mrs. J. W. Stewart. The subject will be Child Welfare. Devotions, Scripture 1 Corinthians 8 chapter. Hymns, "He Leadeth Me" and "Je sus, Saviour Pilot Me." Twelve Lessons in Child Welfare, Safeguard the Babies, Reading, Mrs. J. W. Peak. What the Small Paper > ( t Means to Its Community (Artemas Ward, one of the great studcr. f the psychology of pub ^ licity, once made the following address bc ft .te merchants of a small town in New York state: j - A country weekly newspape_ i. t business of five thousand dollars a year is worth .five thousand dollars to the business and professional men of the community, and can be made worth one hundred thousand dollars a year to them. If you. don't believe that statement, try to get along without your paper. ?j To talle about "supporting" your newspaper is about as damphoolish as to talk about supporting a store, a bank, or a manufacturing enterprise. You. wouldn't be much in the world if you didn't trade in a ?&ore, have a bank account, and have some outlet for, the energy of the citizens. Too many business men look upon the local newspaper as an incubus, a sort of charity.1 Yet the local paper is as much a public institution as the public library, the churches, . the hospitals, or even the commercial club-with the dif ference . that it gives more direct returns, in dollars and cents to the. individual and toi^e community at large. When a business man advertises in his local newspaper it is with av/owed intention of gilding up his business ; but he really also helps to build up'jpe town and everything in it. The professional man does ???re, because his advertising helps the town more than it dries him-directly. The man, business or professional, who'does not pay for his share of the town's publicity is a parasite, taking advantage of his fellow men. Can't you tell what sort of: a town a place is from the looks of its newspaper? If the paper is of the boosting sort, and is backed up by ?the business and professional men, doesn't the town.get a reputation for being progressive? The newspaper's stock in irade is publicity. You would not go into a store and ask the proprietor to give your a pair of shoes, for instance ; yet top-often the publisher is asked to give away his stock in trade^advertising for the individ ual or the city-or sell it for less than cost. If you could keep count of the demands of this sort made on your pub lisher every, week, you woujd laugh. If a business dr professional mari were to appear before this club and ask for more business, you would ask him why' he did not sell something worth buying, and why he did not advertise. In proportion to the benefits, individual and general, advertising is one of the^heapest things in the world. There are men who will tell you they do not believe in advertising. "Do you knbW'-Wh-y-?-'vT-h?y^^i:.content.^to*^ber...un the crumbs that fall from the table of the progressive mercnan who advertises his business and his town. Every time one of your stores advertises a sale it brings people into this town ; their buying instinct is aroused, and they visit other stores. The advertiser gets direct returns but the others take advan tage of his expenditure without a cent of cost. You expect your publisher to boost your town as one of the best on God's green earth. He is asked to do things for which nobody will father the responsibility. Every time there is a civic opportunity, you call on him for help. You know the functions and value of your newspaper as well as I do; so why elaborate? Let me tell you, positively, that even a mediocre news paper is a great factor in the growth and advancement of a community. There is never a time when advertising will not pay. If you do not owe a debt of obligation to-your news paper, you owe it to your community. The community has a right to expect your co-operation in making the newspaper representative of your community. Every time your name is published in a list of contribu tors to some charity, that is advertising-free advertising , that the publisher gives cheerfully, because it boosts the town. ' Every bit of publicity produces direct and indirect re sults for the man who pays for it ; it produces results for every other business and professional man of the town, whether or not he evades his responsibility. It produces re sults for every man, woman and child of the community. The country editor is not a pig-headed, idealistic indi vidual ; he is out for the same things as you are-to make money. And his best interests are the best interests of his town. Do you think' it fair that he should bear the greatest part of the burden ; that he should give his time, money and often his very heart's blood to the service of the community, for barely a living-wage, and sometimes not even that? Yet these services are offered willingly as a free premium on an investment that will-return you sure results. - Or, do you think it right that a few business and pro fessional men should carry their share of the town's public ity, while some others evade their responsibility? The newspaper is ? civic asset and a civic responsibil ity. That burden of responsibility should be borne by the business men of the town, as they are the ones who benefit most. And that burden should be divided in strict propor tion to the benefit possible of attainment. May Offerings. Mr. Rubenstein announces in ? full page advertisement this week that commencing Saturday, the 30th of April, he will make a great reduction in prices on many seasonable articles of merchandise. This bargain feast will last until the 15th of May. Read of the great price reductions and you will find how great has been the de cline in merchandise, pre-war prices now prevailing on much that we have to buy. Mr. Rubenstein will make good every statement he makes in his page advertisement. It will pay Edge field shoppers to read every word of it Meeting of First Division W. M. U. at Bold Spring. , Saturday was a very inspiring oc casion for the mission societies of the first division. Mrs. W. B. Cogburn is president of this division, and had ar ranged a very helpful program. Bold Spring is about 20 miles from Edge field and aBout 13 from Greenwood, located very near the Dixie Highway. It is one of the oldest and most faith ful churches in the Edgefield Asso ciation, the present pastor being Rev. J. A. Hunnicutt. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hunnicutt , have allied themselves with the established organizations of their church and of the Edgefield As sociation and the work is prospering .ft ' under their leadership. Mrs. W. B. Cogburn called the meeting to order and Mrs. F. P. Rush conducted the devotionals which were full of good thoughts of consecration. Mrs. E. W. Callison welcomed the delegates from other churches most cordially, and Mrs. J. L. Mims re sponded. Miss Emmie Lanham was appointed by Mrs. Cogburn. as secretary of the meeting. The Financial Status of the W. M.. U. of Edgefield Association was given by Mrs. Mims. The feature of especial interest and the greatest privilege of the meeting was the presence of Mrs. W. W. Law ton, one of our missionareis to China who made the address of the morn ing, and made every one present glad that it had been made possible for them to be present. Mrs. Lawton is one of the brightest and most charm ing of our foreign missionaries. At the close of the'address the in vitation to dinner was extended and this proved a most delightful occa sion, when hospitality was manifested on every hand. and no evidences of hard times were seen. N After dinner the devotions were conducted by Mrs. John Flinn, andi prayer offered by Mrs. Rush. Foliow ingthis was a processional of all the Sunbeam societies led by Mrs. Hunni cutt. Mrs. Lawton then made an inter esting talk to the Sunbeams, a large number of whom were congregated before her, and handsome Chinese costumes were exhibited by young la dies and young men, boys and girls dressed in them, costumes worn by the Chinese officials, school boys and girls, brides, and people in "every station. Reports were made by the repre sentatives of Sunbeam bands, Mrs. Tillman presiding over the afternoon session and making it a happy occa was represented Vy^??e'u??io^^' . Mellichamp who spoke so well tha't everybody could hear him and he set a good pace for those who followed. Bethany, Bold Spring and Mountain Creek bands were well represented by girls and boys, giving sohgs and readings, but we did not get their names. Miss Mary Frances Rush gave a very sweet vocal solo. The-afternoon'collection amounted to $4.02, which was presented to the hostess society. The Bold Spring Sunbeams under the leadership of Mrs. Bertha Kemp, gave the concluding exercise. "Share Your Blessings," Kate Bell. Consecration, by six little girls. Vocal solo,"Love Lifted Me," by a tiny little girl, Nettie Coleman. This little girl has a very clear and true voice and her enunciation was per fect. "The Best fer Jesus," was given by three girls. "These for Jesus" was a recitation given by J. H. Mayson, a bright little boy. A song, "Just a Little Helper" was followed. by an acrostic "Follow Me," each child car rying a letter, covered in green. The meeting closed with the song, .'Be a Little Sunbeam," and Mrs. Cogburn spoke some words of cheer and parting a s to the work between now and the annual meeting at Moun tain Creek in August. Callison Unbottled. For the past several years the peo ple of the Sullivan and Callison com munities have been bottled up by bad roads, hermetically sealed at that, so .far as coming toward Edgefield was concerned, but Supervisor Edmunds, aided and abetted by public spirited citizens, has pulled out the cork, open ing up the wide, wide world to these good people. With the assistance of the people of Talbert township, ^Mr. Edmunds has worked every public road in Talbert township, changing the road in many places. But few if any roads in this community had re ceived any work from the chaingang in five years. In addition, to working all the public roads in Talbert town ship, Mr. Edmunds is now engaged in making a public road from Sullivan school house down to Limestone, a distance of four miles, connecting with the Dixie Highway. This is fine for the people above and along this road. It is just what they have need ed io, these many years. Miss Florence Mims Writes of Contrasts in Aurora. Dear Advertiser: Aurora is a town of paradoxes, where the least expected tiling.should' be the most expected and where a low standard of civilization lies along the side of a very high civilization. The laws of temperance and prohibition have hardly penetrated this far north as yet, and the old world love of strong drink still has a mighty hold' on these people whose names end in "vich," and such like combinations of the letters of the alphabet. Last night a party of eight of us walked a mile out to the Mohawk mine location which place is a small, thickly settled community of miners.. We had heard that an Austrian: wedidng celebration was to.take place at a certain home, and never having seen anything qf the sort, we thought it might be interesting. * It was easy enough to find the place of the festivities, for a huge crowd was gathered inside and out side of the small house, where there were many lights and much merri ment. We were foolish virgins with: our lamps unfilled with oil, since we had come uninvited. We first walked to the front gate and peeped in, and: then got so bold as to go down the front w?lk and almost on the porch There we met several Aurora stu dents -*whom we knew, and thinking that they had encr?e into this society we went in under their special guid ance and protection to see, as a mat ter of interest what might be the Austrian custom of celebrating such a universally interesting occasion as a wedding. The ^celebration was a dance, riot a dance out on the green in peasant costume, as they probably would have done in their own land, but a dance in- a crowded room, with plentiful . wine served to make the occasion more lively. A custom may be. beautiful in the right setting, with -.an...old-world Ar. tj^?PPStee- 'as"^a~back,-gxx5?iidf nothing is more sordid and.inaprop than such a celebration in America.. In one corner of the room sat the mu sician bf the evening, playing a huge, accordion, with a certain thumping melody that the dancers kept time, to. In contrast to this foreign life here, there are the school, functions which, nre as up-to-date and decidedly cor rect as social affairs can be made. On the eighth of April the Junior Senior banquet took place. This waa-, an elaborate affair, given by the school board. The lower hall, down the entire length of the Hearding Building, furnished the setting. Near one end of the table the orchestra sat,, and played during the meal. The Se nior colors are rose and gray, and the Juniors' blue and fawn. The pro grams' were gray booklets tied with rose ribbon, and the name of each guest, the date, etc., on t3e outside in rose print,. The nut baskets were rose and gray . and roses were arranged down the length of . the table. Rose and gray and blue and fawn streamers deco rated the entire hall. An elaborate course dinner was served by the do mestic science department, and at the conclusion of the meal a program took place, the principal of the High School acting as toastmaster. The school sets an example and arr ideal, so that no matter how unworthy the customs and ideas of the country from which the parents came, the. . students have a different world open ed up to them at school, and live in modern America for at least seven . hours out of the day. The school is one of the' most tan gible factors of our civilization, and . is aggressively helpful to these people - who have been so newly transplanted.. They were but weeds in their own. country, with no opportunity to be. anything else.' In America they have. a chance to become flowers. FLORENCE MIMS- : Aurora, Minnesota. Children's Day at the Metho dist Church. Sunday morning at the Methodist church Sunday School day will be fit tingly observed. A prdgram of song; and recitation has been arranged which will be intersting to all who. may have the opportunity to attend: The pastor, Rev. G. W. M. Taylor, will preach at Trenton Sunday at ll a.. m., and at Edgefield at 8 g. m.