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VOL. 86 EBGEFIELD, S. C.? WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1921 No. 31 JOHNSTON LETTER. Much Lumber and Timber Be ing Shipped. Baptist Re vival Services. U. D. C. Elects Officers. i _ "Johnston has gotten to be quite a shipping point for lumber, many car loads leaving here daily. It is also shipping poplar trees to northern, markets. Some of these poplar trees are immense, some being three feet acrqss at the sawed sections which are shipped in logs pf about 15 to 18 feet. This wood is used for ve neering furniture, and in* preparing, is cut off in circular pieces which are then opened and flattened. It is very intersting to watch the wagons as these huge trees" are hauled in, only one section to a wagon. As these come in- sometimes we are remind ed of the "Yule log," but with times as they are, the ; festivities would have to cease long before this log would burn in two, should we use such a log and follow out this happy and festive custom; Columbia and Augusta . markets are-being supplied -with tomatoes from several truck farms here. The crated fruit leaves here on the even ing trains and is ready , for market next\ morning. This second crop of tomatoes is fine, the fruit being large, and if the dry season had not lasted so long, the produce would have been wonderful. Many here are putting out asparagus and strawber ries, ^with a view, to spring shipment. Mr. Claud Hart has bought out the stock of Mr. Rufus Durst and contemplates opening, up" a Piggly Wiggly store. Mr. Hart was in this business, but decided to go to Geor gia-to reside, but after being in that state for a short while h e saw that South Carolina was the best after all, so he and his family are now domi ciled here again. v:-:;:>Irs^LeJandi;Miller.. and.-- little "Wil-; liam have returned to Richmond, Va., after spending1 the summer here in -the home of her brother, Mr. Wil liam Bouknight. The Rev. H. Wright has been calk ed to the pastorate of the Presbyte rian church here, this church unit ing with the churches of Edgefield and- Trenton. A pounding is ,being planned, and all these good things will be at the . manse1 at Edgefield upon the arrival of Mr. Wright Mrs. J. W. Marsh has this in charge here, and will carry the contributions over to have them placed by the general committee. Mr. Bob Perry of Saluda is visit ing his niece, Mrs. Alice Cox, and sis ter, Mrs. Mary Hamilton. Mrs. Ella Perry Moore who is well known here, having lived for several years, is now located in Charleston, and is one of th ? nurses in the Chil dren's Hospital. Mrs. Moore was a good nurse and -here are many here at whose bedside she has ministered. She was greatly interested in her' work, and her friends are glad that shes is thus situated. Mr. Jim Huiet of Trilby, Fla., is visiting his mother, Mrs. M.. A. Huiet. Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Corn spent the past week in Macon, Ga., at a fam ily re-union in the home of the, for mer's father. Dr. and Mrs. G. D. Walker enter tained on Wednesday evening with a beautiful dinner party in compli ment to 'Mr. and Mrs. Leland Miller. Mrs. Steadman, of Charleston, has been the guest of her sister, Mrs. Edwards. Mrs. Casselis and children have been for a short visit tb Ellenton. . Little Sara Carolyn, the daughter lof Dr. and Mrs. j. A. Dobey, is new much improved, having had diph theria. At the last meeting of the Bap tist Woman's Missionary Society, it was planned to have a chicken show er for the Baptist Hospital, Colum bia, it being expect?d that there will be as many as 50 chickens sent in. Delegates were elected to the state convention in Columbia, these being Mrs. P. N. Lott and Mrs. A. P. Lewis. The society voted to send a contribution to a needy church in Georgia, and to aid a negro woman here who was in a critical state, and only hospital treatment, it seemed w.ould save her. Th friends of Mr. John Eidson re gret to know that his health is so l impaired, and it is hoped that he will soon he, improved. Mr. Leroy vWertz of Belton, Mrs. Taylor Goodwyn of Greenwood, and .Mr. and Mrs. Claud Wertz of Co lumbia have ,been guests in the homei of Mr. ?nd'Mrs. ?. S. W?rtz. , The protracted meeting .ai'the 'Baptist ' church will begin the first Sunday in November, and Rev'. Mr. Miller of Greenwood will assist Rev. W. S. Brooke. Mr. Miller is consider ed a fine evangelist and the church feels, itself fortunate in having se sur?d him. Arrangements are being made how that will aid in the meetT ing. The quarterly report of the Bap tist Sunday school.which was given on Sunday . showed 421 on the roll with an average attendance of 254; There are 25 teachers and the aver age attendance was 21. The classes contributed $134.73 during tho three months. - Mrs. Charles Dent <? of Columbia, has been for a visit to her father, Mr. T. R. Hoyt. * Mr. Marion Wil liams of Columbia has also been to see him. The friends of Mr. Hoyt are sorry to know that he is still con fined to his room. A beautiful little baby girl has come to make her home with Mr. and Mrs. Heber Ballentine. Mr. and Mrs. .Gerard Tarrant and little son spent the week-end here in the home of Mr. W. M. Wright. . ;Mr. Mark Toney spent the past, week in Abbeville, where he contem lates accepting a position. There were three additions to the Baptist church on Sunday, Prof. Alexander bringing his church letter here from Conway, Mr. Charlie Cul-' breath, from Rocky Creek and Mr. ^illiain- Adams upon a. profession", of faith. " . 1 ' A' largely attended-r and very in teresting meeting of the Mary Ann Buie chapter, ,U. Dv C., was beld on ^^^o^uje^^ of. M^^'.-M^W^;P^ Thursday!.'"" There were 24 present, and it was pleasant to have two new members, " Mrs. Susie Latimer and Mrs. J. A. Lott. Miss' Clara Sawyer conducted the meeting and there was much business, as this was the first meeting, for the fall. TKe chap ter voted to buy a copy of "Women of the South in War Times," and place it in the town library, also to offer a cash prize in the high school for best essay on a named Confed erate subjept, the time of writing the essay to be at that period when the class is engaged-in such. The chapter will secure one of the dis tinction1 medals that goes to any Daughter of the Confederacy of the '60's who had a son in the World war. Mrs'. F. M.? Warren, Sr., is the only one who has this distinction. As a means of making money, the chap ter took up an offer to sell flavorings, whereby it will make a profit of about $35. Instead of a program, the historian read the report of the his torical work of?Edisto District, which as District Historian, she had filled. The officers for the coming year were re-elected: President, Miss Clara Sawyer; 1st vice president, Mrs.Ml. P. >Bean; 2nd vice president, Mrs. P. B. Waters; recording secre tary, Mrs. Joe Cox; corresponding secretary, Mrs; O. D. Black; treasur er, Mrs. John Wright; historian, Miss Zena Payne; registrar, Mrs. J. H. White. All enjoyed a social while to gether, there being some visitors, and the hostess served i"ed tea and a va riety of sandwiches. Mrs. Neal and Mrs. Farris, pf Greenville, sister and niece of Dr. L.? S. Maxwell, have baen for a visit, here.' Mrs. Mary Waters has gone to Au gusta to visit her sister. Mr. W. P. Cassells made a busi ness trip' to Hende/sonville, N. C., du ring the past week. Miss Annie Waters of Augusta has been for a visit to the home folks. Mr, John Hoyt has gone to Dur ham, N. C., having accepted a posi tion there. The foot ball team of the high school met the Saluda team on Fri day afternoon at "their field and an exciting game was played, the score being 12 to .0 in favor of Saluda. The Johnston team will go over to Co lumbia to play the Hyatt Park school team on Friday of this week, and are contemplating a game with Nine ty Six. On the 25th of November :.'.:.'-'..?.'?:;T7 ? '.-:'.'. 7ii .-Vi'i.'' .'...-?'? ?.. fea i>.. . I Children Give Lovely Service at Baptist Church. ? Sunday evening at. the regular service of the church, the Suhbeam society, under the leadership bf .Miss Gladys Lyon gave an inspiring pro gram to a full audience. After an ofgarij prelude and the evening hymn and chorus by the chil dren who occupied the choir, Arthur ?. Allen, Jr., offered the prayer, arid everybody felt the- solemnity of it 4s much as if he 'had been older and more matured. No doubt the prayer he offered ascended higher.; ',?3B| many a heartless petition which'|s but hollow words. \Vf, ' Welling LaGrone gave a recitation and if ?pplause/w as' permissable in a .church he would have received some. Another piece de resistance . was little Elizabeth Padgett who gave . a vocal solo. Miss Gladys Lyon, accohtr panied all the vocal selections. ." Hugh Gilchrist who is one of the most faithful of the. Sunbeams, gaye a selection from memory. Virginia Lyon, the daughter of Mr. ?nd Mrs. Frank Lyon, who is such a tiny little girl, that no one 'could believe it, sang a sojo, anjd /walk?d around the platform with a3 much ease as if she had been a prima don na. Some one ?asked how she cbuH do it, and another, said, "Because she is a chip off the old block." Annie Sue Miller is a sweet little girl who in a* graceful manner gaye another recitation. ? Margaret Asbill told the story/of the Baby Moses so that i everybody could hear and understand. Aftdjr she had finished Ruth Kemp and Mary Thurmond enacted a beautiful scene at the back of the platform.^ a conversation about Moses and the basket. During the offering Alice Preset and Elizabeth Johnson renderec beautiful piano duet. Thurmond,followed with recitations. Lucy Scurry sang two beautiful solos, one, "The Sinner and the Song," .having:a melody from behind the scenes, a duet by Mrs. Walter Cantelou and Mrs. Claude Lyon. . Mazie Kemp and Carolyn Dorn, who are among the very best, gave recitations, and - Rev. A. T. Allen finished the program with an appro priate, appeaJ. to parents to b? zeal ous in the religious training of s their children, and to give their support to Miss Gladys Lyon in her efforts in .their behalf. *The platform was artistically dec orated with pot plants and the scene was altogether a lovely one. News From Mr. Cuttino M?l lichamp. ' A card from Mr. C. M. Mellichamp, who is now well under'way in his. studies at the Theological Seminary in Louisville reports Horace and Ma mie who had been such shining lights in the Sunbeam band atvEdgefield were now in the graded school and James and Elizabeth attending the day nursery while he and Mrs. Mel lichamp . attend ' lectures at the Seminary. Mr. Mellichamp wrote that rents were high, but in all other ways prices were down and that the hard times are scarcely felt in Louisville. We were glad to receive the news from these good friends, to report to the people of our county. FOR OVER 40 YEAfeS HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE has been used successfully in the treatment of Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE con sists of anv Ointment which Quickly Relieves by local application/ and' the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts through the Blood on the Mucous Sur faces, thus reducing the inflammation. Sold by all druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. they will go to Abbeville to play that team. Under many difficulties the far mers about town had a good yield of wheat and Eidson's mill was kept busy day ?nd night. The mill is now turning out a fine grade of self-rising flour that is fresh and good and the merchants' here are handling this in stead of having it shipped in to thein from elsewhere. The sweet potato, promises a good yield and the potato curing house al ready has much of its spacii secured; Potatoes kept well here, and all were pleased with this venture. A Loving Tribute to Arthur S. Tompkins. Dear, Advertiser: ; :\When the sad news came to me .that Arthur Tompkins was dead, my j [mind ran back to the remembrance of his life, as I had the privilege of ?knowing dear Arthur , from boyhood and had the pleasure of being in his 'company many times in later life, j Arthur was very entertaining in con-) versation. When he was a little boy, his moth er. used to call him her little preach-j er. She was so devoted tb him. As he grew up, he was noted for his polite ness and good manners, and "always i jmade what he^aaid interesting to all who were in his presence. Yes, dear Arthur, all bf your ,ffiends will miss you, y?ur town, you.r church, your. Sunday school. The association and union meetings "will miss hearing your good counsel. I remember at one time when met dear Arthur at a union meet ing. He was called on to take the 'floor, to talk, and I thought we would hear something worth taking note of. So we did. . When he took his seat he. happened to be by my sideband I at . once congratulated him on his talk. I told him he had missed his calling, he ought to have been a preached. He thanked me and said a man did not have to be a preacher to know how to think and talk and act right and do right. I had to say "amen" to that. . ' [ Dear Arthur, we will all miss you, but we will remember you. You are gone our of out sight, but not for gotten... ' , W. T. WALTON. /Johnston, S. C. (Miss Florence Mims Writes of 'Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Dear. Advertiser: 1 .' ?j When I left Boston in ,192,0 1 I thought that I hadj seen ev II know that I had only read the pre face to this great book of knowledge. Thus is it ever. We have to learn a good deal about a thing before we can haye any conception of the vast 'field for exploration that lies ever be yond. This afternoon I went out fore the first time to the famous Mt. Auburn cemetery. At least* ijb is famous in this part of the country. As a situa tion, it ranks with Fifth Avenue, and Boston's four hundred or four thou sand are buried there. / The smiling landscape seemed rather an Elysian field than a city of the dead. Brilliant flowers and beau tiful trees border the long driveways and woodland paths, and a lovely lake, that you come upon at a "turn I of the road, lends the idea of a place of Sylvan rest and pastoral quiet ude. In it, there are thirty miles , of roadways and paths and many acres yet untouched. The avenues were gjven the names of trees and the paths of trees or flowers, and it is all very wonderfully laid off. One asks the gatek?per for the grave of a certain New England or Boston celebrity, and he is told it is on a certain avenue , or path, and on following the road, it can easily be found. The most imposing memorial I saw I was that of M?ry Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science. A marble rotunda of elabo rate columns overlooking the lake surrounds a mass of blooming flow ers and palms. On ^either side are slabs bearing quotations from her' and from the Bible. Steps lead up to the inclosure. But the tomb that in terested me more by far, was that of Edwin Bpoth, the great actor. It is far simpler than tt?e one I have just described, but, has a'rather unique decoration, the profile of the actor in black on the front of the monument. These words fr om Jere miah 31:13 are carved upon the tomb: "I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them, and make'vthem rejoice from their sor row." As I read that, the thought came over me that this was what he did with his masterly use of the spok en word, that he cheered the great audiences that came to hear him. For real art, music or poetry or speech, has that effect. Its _.arfec#on soothes the spirit. Every now and then, 1 hear peo pie speak''of Booth here, as the got among actors past and ' present. T -walked sueh.a long way lookinj for his tomb, that I had given up ii despair, when I came upon,severa workmen mowing, grass and pruninj the shrubbery. I asked them if were near, the t omb of Edwin Booth and they pointed out the exact spo to me. I doubt if they knew the rest ing place of very many, but no doub the grave of Booth is a Mecca for al lovers of truth in whatever form and then the laborers have an. inter est in it through the thronging thou sands that must yearly come to vlsi it. : -.' <':-, . : ? . V' ' ? Robert Mantell, the great Shak?s pearian actor ls now playing in Bos ton. ?The other day I read in the pa? per that he had visited the tomb di Booth soon after his arrival in thc city and placed a wreath upon it. S< this afternoon, I saw what I presume was the same wreath, a florist's dec oration of pink wax roses and a gar larid of laurel. I walked across tlie grass, sat on the marble , enclosure and pondered. There was no one else about, and I paid my silent t ribute to this man who had helped to raise the standards. of his ari; to. such a high and noble plane. Passing on, I saw the tombs of Charles "Dana . Gibson and Julia Ward Howe. Longfellow is also buried here and James Russell Lowell, but I left reserving those to be seen at an other time. -. >' The cemetery includes parts of Watertown, Cambridge aiid Mt. Au burn, so I could get only a peep in one afternoon. All the beauty arid the immensity of the place made it but 'more surely a silent reyninder of-"the brevity of our material lives and the', eternity of the spiritual. . FLORENCE. MIMS. 25 St.. Stephens'4 Street , .. ,;< Lay it On, Macduff. Editors of the Advertiser and Chron icle: ' I-want to say to each of ^ou that I and every Democrat in the county fully indorse every word that you have published. It was timely and to the point. And it is folly for Ouzts and Watson to try-to bluff anybody. It is unfortunate that they got their feet and fingers in Joe Tolbert's tar bucket. It will be a long while before they can get the tar off. While they say t??ey '/weren't thar'" the other fellow says "I 'seedj 'em.' " The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots, lt is my opinion that Joe Tolbert required every one who held office' under him,' should be at that convention in or der to swell his ranks. I may be . mis taken, however. But there is one thing I do know. It wag Tom and Joe Tolbert who started the Phoenix riot, where one white man was killed and two wounded and a score, of negroes killed. I had a son teaching1 there at the time,-and I was greatly interested, for* I had two sons there in the thick of the fight. We do not intend to stand for such a thing led on by the Tolberts again. I went through the . dark days of recon struction, and answered the call in '76. Will go again if needed. So I am standing by the Advertiser and the Chronicle with sword and banner. And whoever undertakes to incite the negro to nr--chief, let him be "Anathema-maran-atha." You can do just as you like with this.' While I think there has been enough-said, I just wanted you and Wigfall to know just where I stand. You and he have expressed your selves fully, and unafraid. , J. RUSSELL WRIGHT. An Honored- Name Being Handed Down. Mrs. Frank Watson and Mrs. Frank Byrd are visitors in our town today from the Berea section. Mrs. Watson brought with her her little son, Mark Abney Watson for his first visit to Edgefield. This little boy has a splendid heritage in the name of'his great- grandfather, Rev. Mark Abney who was one of the most honored pioneer preachers of his day in our county. The names of other babies, older children, are a memorial to this honored pioneer. ? \ ? ? ? .'? * .' . ? ' .*?v,i *> vi . ;. - v'.i:.'- ,/'. ? \%i ??k ' ' 7-v RED OAK GROVE. Old Martin Town Road Real Highway. Meeting of Y. ! W. A. Many Aban irU doned Farms. How nature responded to the re cent rains. Everything, even folks., The roads (have several bad washes,; but the dust was deep and loose, which- caused the soil to wash away. I have never seen the old Martin.; Towri road, look so well, all trimmed up and broadened out; neat, well constructed bridges, and rounded, highways. Some pleasure to jtravel on it now, and the blessing comes,not only to man, but beast. We learned with sadness the. death:, of our friend,. Mr. Charlie Petty o? North Augusta. He was a mari of ai very staunch character, firman his convictions, but unselfish in judging his fellowman. His loyalty to his widowed mother when in yoting man hood was one of the beautiful traits of his noble character. While we feel, we have lost a friend and are sad dene dj yet our life has-beerie bene fitted by having.known him, as our; friend, and to know him was to hon- " or him, for his high integrity and un-~ faltering manhood.' -May heaven's choicest blesings rest upon his chil dren and loved ones, and may. his . example be emulated. Their sorrow is not without hope. The Mamie Bussey circle of W. M.. Society met last Wednesday in the home of Mrs. Eddie Agner.' Mrs. W.- ' A. Dow' led the meeting, which was well attended, and a most intersting: ' meeting was held. Mjrs. Mellie '-Dow-, succeeds Mrs. Lamb as president of the society. We feel sure the work ' has fallen in-safe /hands, and that.\ Mrs. Dow will meet with hearty co operation and the work she loves so well will grow. (and . prosper. ^Sej??al urday at Modoc. Miss Kathlene Kenrick was hos tess for the Y. W. A. last Saturday afternoon, Miss Sadie Dow, vice- president, presiding. The interest of the hieeting was marked, and a pleas ing was marked and a pleasing pro Lng program carried out. The Novem ber meeting will be held im the home of Misses Maggie and Eva Agner, at which time all the girls will contrib ute to the 75 Million Campaign. So many of the colored people are- . leaving the farm. Many of them having lived for years at the same place now can np, longer see a living and remain. ? < A It really sems to me, so much un cultivated land and taxes so high, indicate harder, and still harder times. Why is it thus? Where lies the fault, and the perplexing prob leih? How can it be relieved? The land*was given us from which to ob tion sustenance, and is it neglect, of proper uses' that man no longer can see a living thereon? In traveling, on seeing, deserted, farms, homes va cant, it invariably produces, "wish it wasn't so" feeling* Not to say sad,, but yet a* regret seeing waste where plenty of the world's necessities . could be flourishing, instead ruin and deterioration abounds. Again I wonder why this condition prevails. Modoc, S. C. Death of Mrs. David Temples. God in'His infinite wisdom called Mrs, Ellen Temples after a lingering illness. Fer sometime she had been, in delicate health, but always wore a cheerful disposition and a smile'. It did not seem like she feared death as those who axe, not ready. She leaves a husband and three little children to mourn her and a host of relatives and friends. A precious one from us is gone, a voice we loved is stilled, A place is vacant in our home which never can be filled. In the book of life by an angel's pen, May thy name, dear one, be writ ten, And the loved of earth may you meet again, on the peaceful shores*of . * heaven. . ? . Day by day we mouyn her absence, and our tear drops freely flow But-while weeping comes a whisper, . "She's not dead, but gone before." , ' A FRIEND. SSS ? ..?'; Ci; .'.i