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VOL. 86 EBGEFIELD, S. C.? WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1921 No. 31 JOHNSTON LETTER. Fine Lettuce Grown. Mrs. V ters Entertained the New Century Club Tues- . day Afternoon. Mrs. J. R. Kelly, of Jacks ville, Fla., is visiting in the home Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Turner. Miss Myrtis Smith is at ho from Hendersonville, N. C., and much improved. Rev. Mahlon Padgett is the gu of relatives at Edgefield. Mrs. Allen Samuel of Edgefi has been visiting her cousins, 1 Misses Sawyer. Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Lyon, Jr,, i now domiciled in the home of 1 and Mrs. M. W. Crouch. Miss Blanche Sawyer who has 1 a position in Darlington, is at ho: enjoying a short vacation. Mrs. J- W. Hatcher is at ho] from Columbia, going there in t interest of the $75,000 Campaign. Mrs. Robert Price has return from Batesburg, having spent fr months here with her daughti Mrs. Crouch. The friends of Mr. W. T. Walt are sorry to know that he is a gre sufferer from rheumatism. Miss Floride Hendrix spent t weekend at her home at Leesville. Miss Ruby Glover has been for short visit to relatives at Batesbui Mrs. St. Julian Harris of Albai Ga., has been for a visit to her mot er, Mrs. P. N. Lott.. Mrs. Huiet waters was hostess f the New Century Club on Tuesdi afternoon, and although the weath was inclement, there were 18 pre ent. The chief business was in son i plans for the entertainment of tl State President, Mrs. Adams Mos and Western District Vice-Presider Mrs. J. M. Patterson, who are visi ing the clubs of the state and ha1 given the week beginning Novemb 20th to this District. The clubs a: to unite and have a public meetin when they come. After an instru? tive program and music, the hoste: assisted by Miss Mallie Waters, ser V - ed:,a;tempting .salad-.course-with -h< coffee. Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Corn spent tl past week in Greenville, where th former contemplates locating. Little Miss Sara Carolyn Dobe; who has been ill for two weeks : now able to be up again. Mrs. M. M. Coleman has returne to Aiken after a visit to her daugh er, Mrs. W. E. LaGrone. Mrs. Mary Waters has returne from Augusta, having visited he sister there. Mr. J. W. *Bledsoe has been quit sick with broken bone fever for th past week or more. y Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Allen and Johr Jr., have been visitors in the home o Mrs. Willie Tompkins. Miss Henrietta Satcher who i studying to be a trained nurse at th Baptist hospital, has been for a visi to her sister, Mrs. Ann Gibson. Mas. Frank Weirse 'and littl daughter of Charleston are visitinj in the home of the former's fathei Mr. James Westmorelond. The manual training class at th high school is now doing some hig] grade work, this being the thir< term for some of the young gentle ^ men. On Friday afternoon of th? past week Prof. Lott, who has chargi of this department, began the worl with a class of young women, all o: whom were much enthused in th< work. . A farmer in our community ha; made a fine crop of cotton, corn peas and potatoes, at a small cost the basis of his fertliizer being bun and crimson clover, using with this acid phosphate. Mr. P. N. Lott has one of the fin est fields of clover that is to be seer anywhere. He is a splendid farmer and his fields are always productive of a good yield. No doubt there will be a good ship ment of asparagus here next spring) for there are now several fields all in readiness. Strawberries are also being planted and lettuce beds being I prepared. The lettuce that was ship ped from here to Columbia and Au gusta was a really beautiful product, some of the heads resembling cab bages. This w)as fall i^jrowji under % canvas and in hot beds, and the Mr. Whatley Writes Further of Stills and Violators of * the Law. Editor Advertiser: I feel that I have a claim on the old Advertiser. I am now on the shady side of .65 and the first paper I ever remember seeing was the Ad vertiser, and the first paper I ever read was the Edgefield Advrtiser. During the Civil War, while my fath er was with the colors my dear old mother read the Advertiser and my father was a subscriber for about 50 years and up till his death in 1887. For years after my father's death I was a reader of the old paper but after moving to North Augusta I followed after strange and daily pa pers, but now I am returning to my first love and want it in my house the balance of my few days. Before my dotage I used to enjoy writing for the old Advertiser but now it is hard for me to command words to express the thoughts that pass through my infertile brain. Last week I wrote in regard to State Constable Scott going dis tances to capture bootleggers and stills. Mx. Scott asks me to say that if the good people of Aiken and Edgefield will keep, him informed in regard to law-breakers and stills that hewill endeavor to have ' them caught rt he himself, cannot answer the calls.. His address is Ernest L. Scott, North Augusta, S. C. Always give as near as possible the location of these stills and who is thought to be running them. These Hades boilers must be brok en up or the future young men, many of them, will stagger in the footsteps of their drunken fathers who have passed to the beyond from whence no traveler ever returned. It is . passing strange to me that men who claim to have brains will persist in manufacturing devil water that will send men down to perdition where they will suffer throughout eternity. And stranger still, is, that our judges, men of learning and great minds do not put heavier pen $???g&*^& boot leggers who are ruining the people in this life and the life to come. J. C. WHATLEY. North Augusta, S. C. The Quarry Capacity to be Doubled. The information that the quarry at Parkhill is soon to be enlarged is very gratifying information to the people of Edgefield and Trenton. At present from six to eight cars a week are shipped but the management is arranging to double the capacity at once so as to be able to ship from 12 to 15 cars a week. Mr. W. B. Jami son, the capable manager, told the Advertisers representative Saturday, that a contract has just been made to ship 80,000 tons of jetty stone to Jacksonville. In fact so great is the demand for stone that orders are be ing turned down without price being quoted. Such a large volume of busi ness means much to the management of the quarry, to every business in terest in this vicinity and to the Southern railroad, which will receive freight on the entire haul to Jack sonville on this heavy tonnage. Look at Your Label. Look at the label on your paper and see if your subscription is in ar rears. If it is, we must request and urge that you remit at once. We have carried some of our subscribers during the season of financial de pression but must now insist upon payment. We do not wish to drop a single name from the list, so we in sist upon payment at once. Mail us a check or a money order if you can not call at our office in per son. FOR OVER 40 YEARS HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE has been used successfully in the treatment of Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE con sists of an Ointment which Quickly Relieves by local application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acta through the Blood on the Mucous Sur- j faces, thus reducing: the inflammation. Sold by all drug-gists. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. trouble to grow this was well paid for by the ready sales. Tomatoes are still being shipped from the second crop. Mrs. R. C. Padgett Hostess Episcopal Auxiliary Meeting. Mrs. R. C. Padgett, who for a;nuwpJ ber of years has been the very faiihf , ful custodian for the United Thank \ Offering of the Auxiliary to the Pre siding Bishop and Council in the'. Trinity Branch of Edgefield enter! tained the auxiliary at the OctobejK meeting, this being the month to col? j lect the Blue Boxes, in which the' . members had deposited their offer-h ings. The pretty colonial home was giv en a charming note by the many ! handsome potted plants of the hos?, tess-exquisite ferns and love%. flowering plants. Mrs. R. A. Marsh, vice president! presided with gracious ease, a splenj?, did program heing participated in bj?; Mrs. Milton Parker, Mrs. Walter Mc Donald and Mrs. Marsh, reading ar?, tides on the Thank Offering. It is a sonrce of great pleasure t$ the members to know that at the.. Portland convention last month the United Thank Offering totaled $669,126. Mrs. Marsh spoke of the recent honor the auxiliary here had had conferred upon it in the election at Anderson of its president, Mrs. P. M. Feltham, as vice president of the Co-" lumbia Convocation. The pretty little granddaughter, of the family, Elizabeth Padgett, ren-: dered a sweet solo. in ? voice that: foretells a talented musical career.' After the program was completed^ the hostess, assisted by Mrs. J. Irving^ Pargett, served an elaborate saladY course, concluding her charming hos pitality., Mrs. C. T. Graydon of Columbia, a visiting auxiliary member was a very welcome guest at the meeting . The First Woman Senator cm j Protection and Prohibition. Mrs. Wm. H. Felton; the .first. United States woman senatQr,r';'wh<|J for. many.;y'eflt'S has ,b?en a. leader . many good works and words in Geor gia, in the course of an interview printed in the Baltimore Sun gave emphatic endorsement of a protec tive tariff and of prohibition. On these questions she said: "We of the South should hail a protective tariff as a real blessing. We cannot expect our industries to thrive if we allow foreign -manufac turers to come into our country with their goods; made with labor 10 to 20 times as cheap as we are able to get it and undersell us. "Our manufacturing in the South is i n its infancy. We need to stand by and help. And, unless we can sell our goods cheaper than a man from China or Japan, Germany or France, we cannot hope to see them grow. "There's our cotton. We are just beginning to see how much more val uable it is going to be to us when we get our own mills to spinning so that we won't have to ship it way up to New England and then buy it back at 20 time:; the price we were paid for it. What if Japan, with her labor costing practically nothing, could bring manufactured cotton goods in to our country and sell on an equal footing with our own mills-how long would our plants survive. "I'd vote every time for a tariff that protects." Mrs. Felton's views on prohibition are straightforward. In a single syl lable she quickly answered a ques tion pu jt to her regarding agitation for the moderation of theVolstead act. "No," she answered quickly. Mrs. Felton said: "I'd a million times rather cut off my good right arm than see whisky brought back into our country. Or, for that matter, see that splendid prohibition act modified in any degree. "If you could have lived when I was young and could have seen the wretchedness it brought to many, many homes right here in our own country, you couldn't ask me if I would like to see it even modified. "Prohibition! God bless that glo rious congress that made it a law in our land to prevent the use of intox icants in any way whatever!"-Man ufacturers Record. Cooperative Plan Upheld in Courts. Sweeping victories for cooperative marketing were won in the courts of North Carpilna, Texas and Oklahoma (fairing the past week, according to Statements issued yesterday by the Snuth Carolina Cotton Growers' Co operative association. In Texas and ?kl?homa the cotton contracts, which are practically identical with the. contract signed by members of the South Carolina association were upheld by the courts and permanent injunctions granted restraining mem bers., of those associations from dis easing of their cotton except through the association. Temporary in junc tions had been secured against six ptembers in Texas and against sever al in Oklahoma some time back. ;-In North Carolina a desperate ef fort was made by enemies of the Tri state Tobacco association to have dissolved an injunction which had been issued against two members of the- association. Several of the ablest lawyers in the state were employed qm jhe court to have the contract de clared unconstitutional, but the court in its decision made the in junction permanent, declaring the contract sound, according to infor mation given out by the association. Very great interest was taken by South Carolinians in the North Caro lina hearing. The attempt to have the injunction dissolved was made be fore Judge Frank Daniels. H. G. Con ner, Jr., of Wilson, chief counsel for those attacking the legality of con tract, argued that the association was aimed to create a monoply and that it was a combination in restraint of trade. The tobacco association has now instituted suits against the persons, who sold their tobacco outside of the association for five cents a pound li quidated damages. I The Raleigh News and Observer, in expressnig gratification editorial ly at" the outcome of the case in iNprth Carolina, said: "If cooperative ft?r^tir/^succeeds the day of glut-. price has gone. If it fails, what then? In that case the farmers must revert to the old position where they get whatever is offered them. They will have no voice in that. One year they will get 20 cents a pound for their cotton and the next year six, and usually they, will be the victims of wild fluctuations."-The State. News From Cleora. We are having some fair weather at last, after a seige of wet weather. Mr. A. B. Holmes left for Charles ton Saturday evening after spending a month on his farm. He has rented his farm to Mr. Walker Thomasson, who will move on the place about November the first. Miss Hattie Brunson who is teach ing the Long Cane school, and Miss Ruby Brunson who is attending school in Edgefield spent the week end with the home folks. Mr. Evan Morgan has gone to Beaufort to farm with his brother, Hugh Morgan. Mr. P. B. Thomas will soon go to Edgefield as soon as he gathers his crop to join his family who moved in the early fall. Mr. Abney Brunson left on the 14th for Tampa, Fla., to accept a position on a U. S. dredge^boat that had been offered him. All the darkies that have not left this section are working at the saw mills. It is almost impossible to get any labor to put in a grain crop. Mr. Herbert Williams will take a load of hogs to Greenwood Tuesday where he has sold them for 10 cents per pound. Why cant Edgefield pay as much? , Everyone that can get the labor will commence sowing grain this week. Dsn Brunson got his hand bad ly cut with a shingle saw last Tues day. SUBSCRIBER. FOR RENT: A two-horse farm, with a four-room tenant house on it; within walking distance from the square in South Edgefield. Apply to T. B. GRENEKER. Joe Tolbert and The Phoen Riot. Editor of The Advertiser: I am going to give a synopsis the Phoenix riot as I remember Joe and Tom Tolbert incited the n groes to this riot. Phoenix is a small town about t< miles from Ninety Six and about tl same disuance from Grefenwoo They decided on this place to beg their infernal work. I had a son wi was teaching there at the time. TI school building was located near tl store house. There were bushes ai broom grass in the rear near th school building, and the negroes tl night before had gone over and h their guns in this rubbish. On tl next morning the negroes began gather in great crowds. At the san time old Tom Tolbert was on har with his ballot box. As soon as tl poles were opened for voten, To put his box on the porch of the stol and every negro vote that was cha lenged they would report the san to Tom and he would take the names and deposit them in his bo: There were very few white me there. I think only about eight < ten. This thing had been going o sometime until forbearance cease to be a virtue, and Mr. Etheredg stepped to the door and kicked Toi Tolbert's box out on the ground. Til negroes were standing in front c the store as thick as blackbirds on a oatstock. As soon as Mr. Etheredg kicked the box to the ground, he wa shot dead, the ball entering the for? head. At the report of this pistol e^ ery negro made a rush for th broomstraw for their guns. The e> citement was great, I hardly thin that there were but two or thre white men that were armed, but i the melee old Tom was shot. Thes two were the only ones who wer shot that morning. All this was planned by old Tor j and Joe Tolbert before election daj ?The telephone wires had been cu ?the night before, but the news of th riot went like -wind-and by .nigh ?there were men from the countr; round about, and they continued ti come in from all over the land. Jo* Tolbert who was living at Ninet; Six heard that the battle was on an< [Tom was mortally wounded, and lef in post haste for the battlefield, bu when he got within a mile or so o: Phoenix, a bunch of negroes met hin and told him if he went over ther< his hide wouldn't hold corncobs, an< he never got anywhere in sight. Quite a number of negroes wer< killed and those who were not killec left the country in great haste anc confusion. After the riot there was an in dig nation meeting held at "96" and Ton and Joe left for the "City by th( Sea," where Joe's daddy lived. Ole John, Joe's daddy, was collector oi revenue at the Custom House ir Charleston at the time and that wa: their house of refuge for months. McSweeny was governor at thal time and Joe went to Columbia anc asked the governor to make the peo ple of Ninety Six and elsewhere lei him come back to see after his in terests. So the governor sent oui posted bills to almost every man tc let Joe come back. The governor liv ed quite a while in the town of Nine ty Six before he was elected gov ernor. He was editor of a little pa per there about as wide as my two hands, and I knew him well. When 1 received my orders from McSweeny to let Joe return I then wrote to the governor that Joe could never come back in our town until he could say in plain language "Shibboleth." And if he failed to pronounce the word he would be killed at the ford. Finally, the people let him return, after making a solemn promise that he would not meddle in politics with the negroes any more. We have had no trouble since along that line until now. He is doing everything in his power to stir up mischief. Now I think it is high time for the people to rise up as one man and tell Joe Tolbert he must not, and cannot go any further with his devilment. Nothing would please him more if he could see black feet on white necks as they were in Reconstruction days. This is just a synopsis of who Joe Flat Rock Correspondent .Writes of Present Con ditions. The spring-like warblings of the mocking bird and the merry chirps of the itltle birds around our door that are taking their departure south reminds us that it is right and proper that changes must come to man, as well as birds and beasts. When bow ed in sadness and sorrow, oh for" mother-time, bringing our changes,, and on the other hand were we left ever in joy and mirth and glee, would many consider the all ruling: power of the universe. Adversity must come to us all, and for our good. Oftentimes it is hard but it. is a blessing in disguise. We hear much nf the business de flation. How came it so? Did it coma singly or where place the real cause? We might assert many rea sons, but the space here will not ad mit that, though we believe sr/ol winning, the only way by which the so-called hard times will ever safely be overcome. We are ? part of our ?business, great or small; when we ?get wrong the business soon goes the [same way. Our money has not been. consumed,it its all here, right here yet, and we need less worry over that and more concerning the souls of our fellow man, remembering "God is my shepherd, I shall not want." Modoc, S. C. ,.. .. -I Court, of Common Pleas. The fall term of court of common pleas convened Monday morning: with Judge Townsend presiding. The first case called was the suit of G- W. Vansant against Clarence Lott to> recover damages alleged to have re- , suited to an automobile in a collision. A verdict of $85 and actual d?m ages was rendered in favor' of- the plaintiff who was represented by B. W. Crouch <k the Saluda bar and J. Wm. Thurmond. The defendant was - represented by T. B. Greneker. ? j, The~suitinf Beasley- Sh oe- Colapahy^ bf Lynchburg, Va., against J. A. I Hamilton resulted in a verdict of $206 for the plaintiff, which wpsJ. represented by Sheppard Bros. N. G. Evans represented the defendant. The court was engaged ali of yes terday with a suit against the Peo ples Oil Mill of Johnston for $5,000 brought by Augustus Frasier through James Frasier, his guardian ad litem, for damages alleged to ' have resulted through the operation, of a machine while working for the defendant company. A verdict was rendered in favor of the oil mill, which was represented by J. Wm. Thurmond. The plaintiff was repre sented by S. McG. Simkins, N. G. Evans and C. T. Burnett. At the hour of going to press to day the court is engaged with the suit of the Bank of Parksville against E. B. Dorn to recover the sum of $3,000 alleged to be due om certain notes. It appears that Mr. Dorn gave notes to the Fisheries Products Company of Wilmington, N. C., for stock in the company and later the Bank of Parksville purchas ed the notes. Mr. Dorn takes the po sition that the notes were obtained from him through fraud and there fore refuses payment. The Bank of Parksville is represented by W. K. Charles of the McCormick bar and Mr. Dorn is represented by J. Wm. Thurmond. The outcome of the case^ will be watched with, interest, as it is said there are other persons in the county who gave notes for stock as Mr. Dorn did. The civil court will probably com plete its work by Friday night and there will be no court next week. Sunday Services at Methodist Church. The pastor will preach at the Edgefield Methodist church Sunday (fifth Sunday) morning at 113(1 o'clock and Sunday night at 7:30. The public is cordially invited. and Tom Tolbert are and what t&ey have done in the past and what they are trying to do now. RUSSELL WRIGHT. Johnston, S. C. \