VOL. 86 ~ EDGEFIELD, S,C, WEDNES|)AY? NOVEMBER 2, t92i 1 }, ? > , ' 3fr ' ? _>_:- i "* ? JOHNSTON LfcTTER. Potato Curing House Busy' Scene. Lyceum Course Se cured. Arbor Day to be Observed. All the farmers are interested in . the method of curing the sweet pota to- and the potato curing house was a busy scene during the past week,, the potatoes being stored in crates. The potatoes ^will be kept an "even tem - peratu^B during the whiter. The ex ( pense attached to storing the pota f toes will be more" than covered when one thinks of the many potatoes that are in a^state bf rot when a bank is opened, thus making a loss. Mr. Wil liamson, who* has been here for the past two years assisting the farmers 1 in the ?cultivation bf tobacco, is in charge ? of the curing house, and the ' plant is owned by a corporation. MTS. Mary Hamilton, the niece of Mrs. Ailee Cox, is in a'very feeble state, and is now confined to her bed all the time. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hansford Rhoden,has been ill nvith pneumonia, but is thought tb be bet - ter now. The union meeting of this division, Ridge association, met; Saturday and Sunday at Dry Creek. The sermon cn ;. i -Sunday was preached by Rev. W. S. ' Brooke. . A very exciting, game lof foot ball j was played here oh Friday afternoon between the teams of Ninety Six and Johnston. The Johnston team did good playing, but neve;.*-the-less the ' Ninety Six team won, the score be ing 14 to 3. The stars of the John; ston team were Wheeler Rhoden and Victor Johnson. On Friday afternoon . of this week a game is'arranged, to taike place here between Johnstb^ ^ and the united teams of Epworth Or '] phanage and Shandon High school of Columbia. Every tnonth the Woodrow Wilson society of. the high school has a de i bate and. this month -the debate^w?s more for ' amusement and a mirthful j meeting^ was had oh Friday at the last period. The query was "Resolved that '\\ is better to be fat than to be lean." i The affirmatives were Butler Derrick and Misses Edna Hutto, Helen '? Stevens and Bessie Yonce. The negatives were Misses Mary Wal ker, Cornelia Webb, Stelle Ouzts aid Wifiiam Hal&wanger. Mrs. M. M. Coleman who has'been visiting her daughter, Mrs. W. E. La Grone has returned to Aiken. Little Natalie Jones who has been ill with typhoid pneumonia was car ried to the hospital on Saturday for , treatment. The little girl seemed to be progressing well afte r her fever ? did not range so high, but complica tions developed that made hospital treatment necessary. Rev. W. S. Brooke spent the past week at McCormick conducting a re vival meeting. Miss. Mary Waters who is/taking a business course in Augusta, spent the week-end at her horns h?re.. Mrs.'Vannie Hoytj or Oglethorpe, Ga^, will arrive soon to make her , home with the family of* her step-son, Mr. T. R. Hoyt. Everyone welcomes her, for she has many warm friends here, having previously made this ' plac? h?r home. Mr. and Mrs. Tom,Mitchell have returned from their honeymoon and have been in the home of the latter's father. Mr. J. H. White, for a few days before going to their home in Leesville. ' 'Mr^ J. L. Walker was hostess, for the Emily Geiger chapter on Mbnday afternoon, there being a -large at tendance. The chapter had been ask ed to send the names- of schools in . the county that did not h?v? the flag, and this- was reported as being done. These flags can . be secured very cheap. 30 new books were'reported sent to the library at Tamassee In dustrial school. ^The report for the State confer-.! ?nce was read, anti was considered a] splendid one. about $200 having been "in the treasury during the year, and was expended for, the various cours es. A#very interesting^program on "Legends? of the Old Ninety Six Dis trict" was given and after this the hostess served' ' a ytempting salad course. The'first meeting of the League for the Improvement of the High School was held Friday afternoon. During the past week an entertainment had been i given and $30 was cleared. Membership week will soon be had, ?and a canvas- for members made. Arbor Daf will be observed and some trees^will be planted on the campus. A memorial tree will be planted in memory of the World War soldiers of this vicinity who gave their lives for their country. < Some of the young business men pf the town have arranged for a lyceum course for the winter' months, and the numbers promise to be very attrac tive. J The play "Miss Fearless and Co.," that was given Friday evening under the auspices of the Daughters of the . Confederacy, ,was quite' a suc cess, and the door .receipts amounted to $50. / 'Mr., McDaniel of Auguste, spent the week-end here with friends. - Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Allen, John and Miss- Mary Lewis of Meeting Street: were visitors here during the week., *Mx. JJ A.'?Suber visited his sister.a Mrs. JJavis'in Columbia during th?? past week. ) There was a large attendance from j here at the State Fair, the largest crowd going over on Thursday-. The students of the high school were .al lowed Thursday to attend, and a good per.cent attended. All students who did not attend the fair were expected . to report at school, as a fine of $5 is fixed on any student absenting him self, unless sick or otherwise Excused by the board. . - / ? Baptist Church Fellowship Day.' On the, 13t hof November, 19,21, ' in accordance with a' new plan an?ong - the Baptist churches for the purpose of cooperating in the Seventy-Five j Million Dollar .Campaign, the follow- ; ing appointments have been made : at the various churches located in the ? Edgefield Association. ? Bold Spring at 16 o'clock, a. m., ? mnducted -by Rev. W..R. Barnes. ( Mountain Creek at 3 o'clock, p. m., ; Bethany at^^^^??c^^^n^^^ \ Rev. W. P. Brooke. Red Hill 10 o'clock a. m., conducted by Rev. J. A". Hunnicutt. - ?'' . . Anroch 3 o'clock p. m., by Rev. . P. A. Hunnicutt. , Colliers 7:30 p. m., by Rev. J. A. Hunnicutt. Gilgal 10 o'clock a. m. conducted , by Rev. W. P. Brooke. Berea, ll o'clock a. m., conducted : by J. H. Courtney. Little Stevens Creek il o'clock a. ; m., by Rev. E. L. Kugley. Ebenezer 4 of clock p. m., by Rev. ; T. J. Watts. Mt. Zion 3 o'clock p .m., by Rev. ? M. D. Padgett. Edgefield, ll o'clock a. m. by Dr. ; D. M. Ramsey. , ! I Horn's Creek 3 o'clock p. m.,,by Dr. D^ M. Ramsey. Clark's Hill, 10 o'clock a. m., by Rev. P. B. Lanham. Red Oak Grove, 3 o'clock p. m., by Rev. P. B. Lanham. Modoc, 7:30 p. m. by Rev. P. B. Lanham. Plum Branch, ll o'clock a. m., by Rev. G. W. Bussey. Rehoboth, ll o'clock a. m., by J. H. Cantelou. Parksvrlle 3 o'cloek p. m., by J. H. Cantelou. ' . 1\ South Hill or Cotton Mill church, . 3 o'clock p. m., by M. B. Tucker. All the members of these churches are urged to be present at these; meetings, respectively, on the. 13th dajr of November, 1921, being the second Sunday in said month, as very important matters vital to th? church welfare will be brought up, and have a prayerful preparation beforehand. A. S. TOMPKINS, Chm. for Com. Long Branch News. There was a Hallowe'en party at the school house on Monday night. Mrs. Kate Clark had quite a crowd of company on Suftday, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Clark and family, Mr. Butler Clark and family, Mr. Cleveland Clark and family and Mr. L. C. Clark and family. Boy Clark and Albert Herrin went to the fair in Columbia last week. Daisy "Bell Clark .and Ruby Ripley spent Saturday night with Mrs. Bo mar Scott. Ruth Corsia and Alma Clark spent Saturday night with Chloe Rhoden. Mr. and Mrs. A. B.. Cromer from Call on Farmers to Hold Cotton. Washington, Oct. 29.-Southern senators-* yesterday agreed to call up on cotton growers to tie up the mar ket until it advanced from $50 to $75 per bale. The position was taken that on . ac count of the very short crop |he pro ducer' could take that action, and ttiat he was justified in doing so. Senator Heil in of, Alabama, in speaking in the senate this afternoon, declared that'since August, 1920, the world has consumed more than twice as much cotton as was producedJ;his year. "We intend: to tie up the market," he said, "until the price will cover the cost of production-25 cents per" pound-plus a f?ir profit." He called upon producers to bor row from federal reserve" banks andj the war finance corporation in order to aid them' in holding cotton. ?_ - t . Curtailment of Electric, Power. At the hydro-electric plant bf the ?fcgusta-Aiken Electric, Corporation at Stevens Creek a head of onlyj'21 feet of water is now available. Under normal conditions the pjant is oper ated at a head of 3? feet and up ward of 15,000 horse power. Tester day this plant was struggling along with a production of 4,000, horse'pow er. The company's ste'Sm plant at Fifteenth street is in full operation and additional power is being gener ated at its water plant on the canal, although the water supply at this plant has been greatly curtailed. But these additions do not .nearly make up for the' shortage caused , by low water in the Savannah river. The power situation therefore, is going fto be more or less critical as long as the present condition lasts, for numbers of local industries which are large users of power. In Horse Creek Valley some of-the cotton mills are running at partial capacity and others are'using their steam plants. En Augusta some of the oil miljs are bave t?mpora ation. Officials of the company stated that the ?hortage had so far not in terfered with .city lighting or the smaller users within the city or the operation of the street cars. The power' company is cooperating with industries having Unfilled orders un der contract or material now passing through the mills in process of manu facture, in order that these concerns may get through -without suffering loss. ' At the office of the Weather Bu reau, Mr. Emighwas not optimistic about the outlook. He said that rains were about due in this section. He said they would be local in character, however, and that there was no in dication of a general rain which would increase* to any extent the vol ume of wateriin the river.-Augusta Chronicle. ? Saluda spent1 Saturday night' with. Mrs. G. L. Salter. ' Mr. G. W. Scott, Mr. and Mrs.'G J L. Salter attended the Union meeting j at Dry Creek Saturday. Mr. Jesse Derrick and family spent | Sunday with Mr. Joe Clarke Mr. Luther Lott and family went | to his mother's near Ward Sunday. Mr. Alvin Scott and family spent the day with Mr. Thompson Sunday! Mrs. Haskell Clark of Ward spent [ Sunday at the home of Mr. B. D. Der- j rick. Mrs. Rhoden and Mrs. Walton went to Mrs. J. K. "Hair's Sunday. ' Mrs. Clark, better known as "Grandma Clark" has gone .home af- j ter a visit among her grandchildren here. Mr. Rob Williams and family vis ited at Mr. O. C. Clark's Sund?y. * Mr. Horace Jones spent Saturday and Saturday night ta Mr. B. D. Der rick's. Raymond Derrick was at home Monday night. Long Branch school has finished one month's work. The pupils have been doing very good work. Several are on the honor roll: Eighth grade, Alma Clark, Myrtle Salter and Ola Mae Scott; seventh grade, Vera Clark; sixth grade, * Ruby Duffie; fourth grade, Mary and Annie Mab Clark; second grade, Chide Clark, ? trwin Duffie and Frank Yonce; first grade* David Williams and Guy] Scott. "?.? ' Miss^i^i*?h?e Mims Visits Gov ernttjent Indian Schcol. - 1 Dear Advertiser : For,lo these many weeks I hav been .looKing forward to writing this artict??0|?eause I have been antici pating" the very, rare .privilege of vis iting ??iejlChilicco Indian School, one of the,'i'a'tgest .Indian schools in the United States, with a student body of 800,..a?j^ithere to witness ^ spirited foot bat?.; game between the Indian "football eleven" and the team of the "U^ersity Preparatory School. I:,fclf?yesterd?y as though I were living and acting a dramatic story, leaving Tonkawa.'in the first chapter and, in.vt^ach 'successive paragraph ex p?rkncmg enough-, to furnish memo ries, -foivthe rest * of a dull lifetime, were it h?cessary to be dull, but I am Gy^sjj-.'rover and for such as I, un- | Expected joys and'thrills turn sud denly^ around? corners and startle me with their strangeness. I ha^e' adventures because I ex pect thernj^they ahvays'ccme to peo ple who are in a receptive/state of mind^'A*V?-? Chil??co is a co-educational school, situated-vin ?the., country about four miles south of the Kansas, border line. Here are students \ who- have corney from North and South Caro lina, .Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Kansas*-, Oklahoma and other states. In other and different.states, I have me?;.cwored people'from Southe Caf-' olm?i.aii? felt a spirit of comradeship, but it .seems impossible to. have.any feeling; ?f mutual' state love with In dia?s^ot because I dislike them, but rather^because I have never seen a native {South Carolina Indian. I have seen them in the far west and middle west, but not at home. That is ever thj'way. Th?*s6t?ool is under the supervi sion of. the United States govern-? m^t ?nd Uncle Sam has made this prairies-region "blossom like a rose' with fine buildings \ for these stu dents^. giving them their schooling and lioard free. ^P|f^^ian boys-of the football very, tall,' except one who" mus?'have j1 been six feet'.. I know you are immediately won dering what soft of game the In dians played and whether or not they were victorious. They'swept the U. P. S. team off its feet and carried the victory for ChiJicco at a score of 26 to 6,1 wish you could have seen them run/ They were as fleet of foot as young elk, and ,as lithe and*- strong. On falling, they rose up again with the plasticity of savage vigor and started again, playing with marvel lous, cleverness and endurance. The Tonkawa' football coach said this wai the finest team the U. P. S. had played this year. One reason for their excellence is the splendid physical fitness in which $ey arte kept. The dormitories are on the campus and the boys keep regu lar hours, eat wholesome food, have regular work to do and are forbidden to smoke, and these rules are observ ed with military precision. Thus phy sical fitness tells when they are in a contest on the gridiron. Between quarters the Indian band played, having an Indian director. The1 music was excellent, and-one would not have known froni the play ing; that the performers were not of the white race. . - * .The Indianiis not red, birt brown. Hevderiyed the' name "red man" from the red war paint which deceived the first whites into thinking that this; was the natural color of the skin. I think there is a great* similarity between the Indian and the Mongos lian, more especially the Japanese. Some of the students had decidedly slanting eyes. I am more and more bf the opinion that ,the theorjf,. is' right whjch says that thp early an cestors of the"American Indian cross ed'the Bering Sea straight from' Si beria and scattered over North Amer ica, perhaps ?s early as the (Stone Age., . Naturally the difference in climate, and habits pf life' have changed the Indian, but there are still some ^signs of his kinship with the Asiatic. The Indian students were ral along either side of the field, y as we were, f hf the team which was backing.t .l The Indian students at Chilicco represent the* fol?&Ving tribes: The Otoei--, Osages, - Pon?as, Seminoles, Kaws, Arapahoes, Cherokees, Kia was, Pawnees, Choctaws, and per haps others whose, names I did not get. ,The girls wore blue gingham uni forms, which hurt my artistic sense to such a degree that I shall never even partially recover\ from the' shock. I always want to.^take the per son by the collar; though my.right arm is not very mighty, who plans an inappropriate uniform, and tell him or her that the uniforrft^should be an outward expression of' the inward beauty and symmetry of mind which the school tries to teach iii th? class room. ; \ .In this case, I would- suggest'| khaki with a reasonable amount, of beads and head dress. I like to see a jftihnehahft dressed to sui? h?V tribe. There -were.no Miimehahas in that line of students, because any possi ble good looks were nipped . in the bad. by ?h# impossible( blue, that should have been red,' or some color tha.t blended with the love of gayety that these daughters of a vanishing race 'haye so magnificently inborn in them. One sayjhthe uniform they wear is more pract*a'l, but that is the bestvargument agapfct it. It is too practical. ' 'r' ; . \ What we* need is more idealism in everything; I have. b?en told that I lived too much : in; the clouds and should. come to**earth. Nothing could be. more of the earth earthy than teaching. I hope %.am "a'practical ^reamer; seeing reasonable visions. Thes impossible is ever easier than the possible, fn the former,' one takes aid paths.tb the goal and is bored; in the latter, one soars, disregarding traditions and j precedents, and comes it last to be old with understanding. Two bf .the literary societies at Chilicco are the Minnehaha and the Etiawatha. How appropriate! .By far the most interesting age of Indian:-}ffe, as I have seen it here, md elsewhere, is the Indian baby and attie* boy. ; ? little chap about six pears old, with big^rown elyes, dress id in Anierican costume, stood back L1 r. lines with grand unconcern ab,: nncolascious .of m admiring- "ga On the way back to Ton^awaTfrom Chilicco, :iwe passed an Indian woman ivith a p^bose; strapped on her back. I rather, admire'- the' Indians' inde pendent .altitude. toward our cus toms, accepting the ones he approves md rejecting those , he deems im practicable. I have ben told more than once that no mather, how good a college or university education an Indian gets, that ne is very apt to return home ind revert directly to the bid habit sf wearing a greasy blanket and liv ing in a wigwam with his old friends af pre-educatjon days. Of course, there must be many expections to this rule, but in many cases the state ment holds good. The habits o/f hundreds, perhaps :housands of?years, can not be :h?ged in four years of college life, bejause it takes' time, growth,'* -a chfnge of mind and a goodly share of ambition. , . , FLOBENIC? HIMS. .-^Tonkawa, Oklahoma. Oclober 22, 1921. Sweetwater New*. f We were glad to have Master. Til? man Bunch back at school. The Sweetwater school improve ment association met last Thursday and they-elected new officers, Mr. P. B. Barker, President, Mrs. F. B. Bar-i ker vice president,. Mrs. J. T. Reese, secretary and 'the same treasurer, MfV ii. M. Cater, as./they thought they could not .- improve. They will meet again oaf next Thursday the third. ' Our Calhoun LiCferary society met Fridayv28tt?and w? had an excellent program. $he Sidney Lanier society will 'me^next Friday. ^ We^w?r? very sorry to hear of-.Miss Mary Roper's illness but glad she:: ig some better?. . t . Mr. W.r H: Morgan,. Sr.; -left for Beaufort last Friday to remain there several days. J '^?M . Capt. Hugh \ Gpjfakt from Camp Meade, Md., has^wSen visiting r?la- k tives in Greenwood and Cleqra, stop ping for\a few days' in the Red Oak Grove section. Capt. Gilchrist mide for. himself an honorable record iii < the service of U. S., having been welt / ;.; drilled and ready for the place of re- > sponsibility when the J World War began. We' congratulate our Edge field hero; i f Mr. George Gilchrist accompanied his brother'back tp Maryland, where/ . he-pro bably may remain for the win ter. . . ' ^ , The sdhcol at Flat Rock is well'Un der way fer successful work. Mr.-. and Mrs,, Bussey ?re gaining ftr ^ themselves much praise from4he^??^ pupils, which /means good for ooth. the pupils and teachers. ' ) .There seems to be much moving already.'.'Great numbers of the. co!-.7^ pred f oiksjleaving, going t? tho north- $ send b?ck good reports and nutnyjffli others are so'c-n to follow. The color? ed people aie thinning out in thia mi-,, , mediate section, going in several d? dections: It seems though, it \?$iaM . times''everywhere, soi why be;ij(f?c'es|: less? Better to be settled if ya '-:-L fbe Quinine Mat Dees Hot ?ffart 1 Because of its tonic and laxative effee TIVE BROMO QUININE is belier than Staine and