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VOL.-73." ~~~ "T" ~~~~- ' ?DOEF?ELD, S. C., WEDNESSUY, OCTOBER 28tb, 1908._ ^ Oldest Subscriber For Fifty Consecutive Years Subscriber For The Adver tiser. Thi* newspaper has on its sub, scvipti >n list scores ,'of persons who have been ec notant readers for twen ty, thirty and forty years, but? only a limited number "who have reached the half century mark. We feel honored in .'peing., ab]? to present to our readers this week acut of Maj. J. W. Aiton, of Rosa, S. C. Greenwood county, formerly Edge field, who haslbeen a subscriber for The Advertiser for hf cy consecutive .year 3, lacking .colby about two m on', hi.. He states over diis own signature, in the following.personal note to the editor, when he subscribed for the paper: Mr. J. L. Minis; Editor Advertiser, Edgefield, S. C. Dear Friend: I first subscribed for the. dear old paper the first of the year 1859 through your grandi nh ele, Mr. James H. Mims. I was] then attending to business for him? on his plantation. I have been tak H without ceasing ever -ince. J T will be 74 years old if I live until] the 10th day of November next. My general health is as good as I could ask at this" time, though7 am very weak and it is with difficulty | that ! can see to read or write. Otherwise I am well, and hope this] will find you and loved ones w???V " j, Yours very truly,: j. M. AITON: Rosa, S.. C., October 29th,tl908. | / As above stated, we feel greatly honored in beirig able to publish the cut and personal note from Major Aiton, 'a representative and very worthy son of old Edgefield county. The njtimber of newspapers in Sonth Carolina (if there be any others at all) is very limited that has names upon its Subscription Jist that have been there for half a century. Maj. Aiton no~w receives The Ad vertiser gratis, itnd will continue to receive it with the* compliments of the editor until he shall have reach the end of life's journey, which we j sincerely trust. will be yet very j many years. HISTORIC SAND-BAR FERRY I Owned by an Edgefield Man, Mr. Warren Fair. Now that a movement is on foot to abolish Sand Bar Ferry, across the Savannah river and substitute] for it ? bridge, the history of the old ferry is interesting. The first j owner of the property, CoL Pepper, who in 1739, while at Fort Moore! Bluff, the eminence overlooking the | riverton the South Carolina Side,; ob tained a charter and permission to introduce a ferryboat from the Co lonial Government. Gov. Bull later I transferred the /charter and the property to Col. Pepper, who in turn transmitted them to the Lamar family. The Lamars conducted the ferry business for a number of years and sold it to Col. Abney Whatley. It remained a Whatley property un til the close of the civil war when Mr.- Johnathan Miller, who by the way, is still in the land of the living and*with faculties unimpaired, atan age close to a century, purchased it from H. H. Hickman, administrator, for $20,000. Mr. Miller-held it for about ten years and sold it to Mr. Warren Fair, who a little over two years ago sold it to Mr. Paul Dunbar for 87,000. In course af a year the ferry again changed hands and is now the property once more of Mr. Warren Fair. For a number of year before and after the war the annual income of the ferry reached a sum as high as ?25,000. The 'vn nnal-income at present is said to be between $3,000 and $4,000. The ferry ownership includes parcels of lane?, ten to fifteen acres, on each side of the river, on which taxes are paid to Richmond county and Aiken county, respectively.-Aiken Re corder. NEWS FROM TRENTON. - Land Changes Hands. Wed ding Bells Soon to King, Floral Fair to be Held. Everything is very quiet about our little town at present. The sale of cotton has been practically stop ped, owing to the sickness of one of the buyers and the other withdraw-' .ing to Edgefield. The cotton crop has been almost gathered, and now the farmers have begun to plan for 1U0U. We have heard a number of leading farmers say that they in tend to plant large crops of grain and thereby cut the cotton crop. Goldman & Co., of New York, closed the salo of Vann & Leppard's stock on Saturday. This sale has bepn going on for two weeks. It was reported that one of the collectors for k book company was arrested here on Saturday. This company seems to have sold a lot of books in this section. The writer was told by one working for the company that something like 81,300 worth of books were sold here. A great amount of these were sold to people who cannot read at all. We heard of .numbers who purchased several dollars worth of these books and now when they have not made enough to pay their honest debts, these collectors are foreseeing them by threatening to take their houser hold goods. Mr. Geo. S. Courtney , will leave Trenton in the near future for Ai ken, where he goes to enter busi ness. Mr. I. A. Webb has purchased his place and will reside there after this year. > Mr. L. D. Swearingen is enjoy ing the bliss of fatherhood. It is a boy. It is reported that wedding bells will soon he ringing from one end ofthex Aiken road section to the other. If reports are true it seems that they will be so frequent that some will be double. Xhere is but one regret we have to . express and that is all of these fair maidens will be taken far away. Some will stop within the bounds of our own state, Georgia, to the blue grass region. You, even to tfc? Rocky mountain states. p^Ir. James Black, of Saluda coun ty, has purchased a part of the Luke Crouch place and is now movingto his new home. We are. glad to, see these good people from Saluda come into our community. This reminds ns that some of our best and most substantial citizens were once r?si dents of that part of old Edgefield that is now' Saluda . county. They have all proved to be worthy citizens. Mrs. J. H. Privette, of Darling ton, who has been visiting her daughter, Mm J. H. Courtney, will return home on Wednesday. Mrs. R. B. Smith will return this week from Columbia where she went for treatment. We are glad to know that she has greatly improved in health... The annual floral exhibition will be held on November 3rd. Dinner will be served by the ladies who are interested in the cemetery. The pro ceeds of this will be expended for a new fence. Mrs. Burquette, a Swedish lady, was buried at Ebenezer last Tues j day. The funeral service was con ducted by Rev. Mr. Gillespie. Mrs. Burquette, with her husband and four little children, came here from Boston more than a year ago. They settled ?on some land over the line in Aiken county sold them by Mr. J. M. Swearingen. These people are a good class of immigrants; They are hard working, honest, Christian people. The. family have the deepest sympathy of our whole community in this hour of sadness. READER. Delegates to Charleston. The following ladies from the Edgefield association will attend the Woman's Missionary Union convening in Charleston November 10th to 12th: Miss Robbie Jones and Mrs. W. S. G.* Heath, Antioch; Mrs. J. P. Nixon, Clark's Hill; Mrs. J. H. Tillman, Mrs. J. W. Peak, Mrs. Barnwell Jones, Mrs. J. H. Allen, Misses Eileen Ouzts and Kate Patti son, Edgefield; Miss Mary Emma Williams, Gilgal; Miss Madge Mays, Horn's Creek; Mrs. W. P. Parks, Miss Lucy Jaro, Parksville; Mrs. Hugh Wates, Mrs. W. E. Prescott ' and Miss Alma Ham mond, Red Hill; Misses Carrie Burkhalter, Julia and Fannie Joe Strom, Rehoboth; Mrs. Kate M. Black and Mrs. J. C. Long, Mrs. E. L. Posey, Mrs. A. I. Webb, Trenton; Mrs. J. L. Griffis, Red Oak Grove. Mrs. P. B. Day and Mrs. J. D. Mathis were in Edegfield Monday and stated that everybody in ana around Trenton are coming to the floral fair Friday, including nurses and babies. ^^?^^^^^^* ?Hf v *'- -1 ^TJ^I?lWjSai^^*?^?''?^ BBB t>Jt iv 7sir.:>-;uv y..r.vr.C HK' <: /";1|t?i(9-fW)!Vi,??? m?-; ? HB^K^^^^?icdMMM?m*W>^ 10?*?^ m^mWfc*&-$fc?ff- J- ff??fi. J*""**" i H *> : . ' -'<"-r .^l'rS?Ii?l PWBS8 - .:;.."?<-. .?-~xT. ,-. ?iiV " - . . * '" ' ''j The Advertiser lays claim to fact that it was established the same name. Othei v age of the oldest of fished March 2 worn com Greatly Missed at Ceder Springs The Palmetto Leaf Published 1>: he faculty and student body of thc Cedar Spring Institute had the fol lowing to say of Hon. John E Swearingen's absence last week: "Hon. J. E Swearingen-i t seem! hard not to say John-is one of, "oui boys." History simply told is this accidentally blinded by the dis charge of a gun when about ter years old, a pupil here, a student al the South Carolina University, a teacher here nine years, State Super ?intendent of Education elect for thc State of South Carolina. None wish j ed hird success more than his Cedai Spring friends; none miss him more than we do now that he is gone. He ?did a strong work here and put ! hope and ambition into every pupil that came under him. We feel in ' his new field that he will be of gr eat help to our achool. We would beg him to remember that the Leaf ''de mands" an article from him just as in the days gone by." Attention County Schools. The Edgefield chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy is offering a gold medal, to be awarded as a prize for the best essay on Gen. Robt. E. Lee. This offer is open to all pupils of the various schools of our county, boys and girls from the ages of 15 through the 18th year. Every teacher is re quested to choose the best two papers from each school, one a boy's and the other a girl's and send these twg,to Mrs. Julian Holstein, secre tary of the chapter, by December 14th as none coming in later can be accepted. The papers sent in will be read before the members of the chapter by Mrs. Holstein and the best six three boys and three girls will be chosen by the D?ughters and these parties will be notified at once, that they will be expected to read their essays in the opera house of our county seat on Janua ry 19th, 1909, to an audience assem bled in celebration of Lee's birth day. . The Diughter? of the Confedera cy will attend in a body and decide then and there which essay as well as delivery is the best and the medn. al will be awarded on this occasio ._ It is earnestly hoped .that the var ohs schools will take this matte1* up and co-operate with the U. D. C in trying to instill a love and inter est in the Confederacy in the young people of our county. Veterans desiring Crosses of Honor will call on Mrs. Griffin at the Edgefield Bank for application blanks as soon as possible and have same filled out properly returning them to her at once. Orders for Crosses must go in between the 1st and 10th of November as this is the time appointed for the State Cus todian to receive applications. Mrs. N. G. Evans, Pres. Mrs. J. D. Holstein, Sec. Oldest Newspaper Tris xfitsir. >? . ". M '? ' .?>: r. ., :rtu. -. ?ing the oldest newspaper in Soul i January 1835, nearly 74 years J japers claim to be older, but theil he papers consolidated. Kerewil d, 1837, Vol. 2, No. 4, the imper don of the old paper photog COLD SPS ?NG NEWS. School Flourishing Farmers Sow ing Grain, Christian Women at Work. The crop for the year 11)08 is about all gathered. Short crops, short prices and everything: else high makes "hard times." The farmers are very busy now sowing grain. It seems to bethe general intention among them to plant a larger number of acres this year than usual. That means less cotton planted next year and more "hog and hominy" Our school is running full time now and the attendance is good, considering that the farmers are so busy and need the help of their children. Miss Strom is boarding at the hospitable home of our pastor and is giving music lessons to his two bright little boys. She is also giving music lessons to other young people in the' neighborhood. Mr. Mellichanip is boarding with Mrs. Sallie Thomas who for many years has thrown open her doors to the teachers, thereby conferring a favor upon them and the patrons of thc school. The ladies of the Red Hill church entertained themselves very pleasantly last week and at thc same time accomplished something useful. They divided into two groups one meeting at Mrs. Dr. Prescott's home, the other at ''Rose Cottage" and each group quilted a quilt for the Connie Maxwell or phanage. Some little child's dreams will be made sweeter by nestling under the quilts made by the hands of the sympathising mothers of Red Hill. At the last meeting of our young people's organization of this church they made a move toward beautify ing the inside' of the church and the grounds. This church is already one of the best country churches in this county but we believe in push ing forward, and ?not "let well enough alone" when it comes to matters of this kind. Ask Mr. John Bailey how he en joyed the show at Edgefield last Saturday, The monument erected to the memory of Mr. John Wash, by the Woodmen of the World will be un veiled at Rehoboth the 2nd Sunday in November. ?)r. A. J. S. Thomas of Greenville has' been invited to preach for our pastor at ll a. m. and to deliver the unveiling address at 2 p. m. There will be dinner served on the grounds. About two weeks ago Mr. Le wis I Glanton had the misfortune of sticking a nail in his leg near the knee. Blood poison set in and he has been suffering very much, but we are glad to say that there isl some improvement at this writing. Notwithstanding the fact that this year has turned out to he a In South Carolina. th Carolina, basing its claim to tha igo, and hais been published contir r age is probably gained through < I h is reproduced in part a copy of feet impression being due to the raphed for making the cut sh Items of Interest From the College The eighteenth session of the 1 South Carolina Co-Educational In stitute commenced on the 30th of September. Upon returning the students found the building and surroundings great ly improved. Acetylene gas lights had been pf t in, bathing facilities were ameliorated arid the fare, al though excellent heretofore, was found to be still better this year. The three literary societies have started off beautifully and it is to be hoped that they will keep on as they have begun. The presidents are as follows: Of the Fidelian Literary Society, Miss Roselle Burns; of the Pierian Literary Society, Cadet Lieut. L. D. Holmes and of the Bai ley Literary Society, Cadet Capt. W. White. A unique feature of the S. C. C. I. is that it has a Sundah School of its. own. Thc superintendent is Prof, P. P. Burns; Secretary and treasurer Capt. C. F. Colvin. Tlie military feature is very strict this yeai'-an excellent thing-and we all feel sure that under the di rect supervision of Maj. T. J. Lyon nothing but good can result. Counting day students and board ers there are altogether about 200 students, a list of which Avili be giv en later. CADET. Oct, 24th, 1908. Making Bryan-Kern Speeches. The following is from the Colum bia Correspondent to the News and Courier: f'Hori. W. L. Daniel, of Saluda, member-elect of the Legislature from that county, spent to-day in the cityon'his way home from the North. While in Washington Mr. Daniel wa"s called op to speak at a demo cratic rally, and the Washington papers report his speech in compli mentary terms, stating that he re ceived hearty applause from the crowd." hard one, there has been several new dwellings built in this section of the county in the last few months, besides additions or improvements on , others. Mr. Willie Quarh s is to have a new home soon. The lumber has been placed on the ground. Mr. Jack McLendon who has built a new house in our town is to move his family herein the near future. We extend to them a heaity welcome. Tho camp of the W. O. W. here is in a flourishing condition and at almost every meeting some poor, blind candidate- is introduced into the mysteries of Wood craft. X. V. z. ^.. t distinction and honor upon the , luously since that time under :onsoIidatkm, taking the The Advertiser put faded and time town above. \ . ?.. . V - . .-. , DEDUCT FOR "BAGGING. Eicporters'and Mills Limit Quan tity of Bagging tor Baaing* Cotton. -- Notwithstanding the fact that farmers have in the past been urged to cover their cotton better so as to protect it, the exporters and mills have recently adopted a. rule not to accept or purchase cotton whioa has more than six yards of bagging to the bale without making deduction in weight for all in excess of that quantity. The Edgefield buyers have re ceived formal notice of thc new rule and are now forced to make suitable deductio. in weight on cot ton they purchase which has more than six yards of bagging to the bale. Not to do this, as is shown by the subjoined letters, would in the aggregate mean heavy loss to them. In ord?r that the people may fully understand the position of the local buyers, and the "why and where fore1' of their action, we publish letters from certain mills ahd*ex porters to whom they ship cotton. The first is a letter from an ex porter to Messrs. W. W. Adams <fc Co., which shows that this Edgefield firm recently sustained a loss of ?1.78 per bale on 10 bales of cotton on account of deduction for excessive quantity of bagging. The letter is as follows: 'Messrs. W. W. Adams & Co., Edgefield, S. C. Gentlemen : Attached hereto is claim for ?17.83, account surplus bagging picked oh! ten bales cotton in your shipment marked "LEX." Please send cheque to cover. Yours truly, A large cotton mill has also writ ten Mr. Adams as follows upon this subject: Mr. W. WY Adams, Edgefield, S. C. Dear Sin There is considerable complaint about the excessive tare on the cotton that you ship us, and we think you1 ought to require the farmers from whom you buy cotton not to put so much bagging on the bales. I understand that several buy ers have withdrawn from your ter ritory on account of the excessive tare and if this is the case you should certainly protect your old friends, the cotton mills, who have stood by you so long and have made little or no complaint heretofore about this matter. It is serious, how ever, and you should help to pro tect our interests in the matter. With kind regards, I am, Yours truly, Not having r?ceived a reply to the foregoing letter, the mill wrote I REV. A.B. WATSON RETIR?S. Withdraws From Active Misft is>ry After Thirty-six Year$/ of Service. After many years of ministry spent as an active member of the Methodist Conference Rev. A. B. Watson has concluded to become one of the supernumeraries of his church. For thirty six years he bias preached, passing through all the ranks into which the Methodists ,divide, their ministers. For nine teen years he has been an. "active minister." Having served in all sec tions of the state, he is generally known; and by reason of his lova-* ble character has endeared himself to each of his congregations.. Find ing that his health" is notedjuj to the demands of the active ministry he has bought a farm a few miles ( out of Beaufort at Cherry Hill where he plans to live with his wife and younger , children. Before be coming a preacher he was a farmer and looks forward with pleasure to rounding out his life in the same occupation with which.; he began it. Cherry Hill contains 180 acres and its homestead overlooks the upper pirt of, Port Royal harbor from a high bluff which is shaded by live oaks and palmettoes. He is enthusi astic about Beaufort, its climate and opportunities. As an illustration bf the sacrifices that the ministry de| mands it may be mentioned that this properly represents Mr. Wat son's savings before he went into the ministry and that for hismany years of labor for his people through the church he has nothing to show in the shape of this world's goods.. At. the army post. at Fort Fre mont Rev. Watson, has held regu lar services in the mess hall-the soldiers like him, he is the kind of man men like to tie to; at Seabrook . he has a small congregation that is. growing; the Port Royal church has been in his charge beside the one in Beaufort. As a supernumera ry he will preach occasionally to all of these congregations, each of which is very glad that it will not lose altogether a pastor of . whom they are sp fond.-Beaufort Ga--' zette. Mr. Adams- a second -time~AstioJv lows: Mr. W. W. Adams ?Edgefield; S. C. Dear Sir: We have received no. reply from you to our letter ' about tar, so here after we shall- deduct 50c per bale on all cotton: that has excessivetare. We give this infor mation for your guidance 'so that you may know what to do with your ^ customers. Unless something is done in this regard many of the buyers will leave your territory, and it will work io your disadvantage in the end. With kind regards, I am, Yours truly Mr. A. E. Padgett, president of the Edgefield Mercantile Company, has also- received several letteas bearing upon the same subject, the following being an exact copy of one of these letters: Edgefield Mercantile Company, Edgefield, S.'C. Gentleman : We sent you sev eral days ago a copy of the Caroli na Mill Rules under which most cotton in this section is sold, and we wish to call your attention to the fact that this year the mills are allowing only 20 pounds of bagging and ties to the bale on uncompressed cotton. There has been great com plaint on cotton shipped from your section having more than the or dinary amount of bagging that would he used on a bale of cotton. We trust that you will, co-operate wit h us in getting the farmers to reduce the amount of bagging put on cotton within the prescribed limits of the Carolina Mill : Rules, and we are writing you to let you know., that cotton purchased from you in the future will be made ac cording to Carolina Mill Rules .and for excess tare over 20 potinds, de ductions will be made; In most towns now farmers use 6 yards of bagging instead of from 9 to 12 pounds. We trust that your cus tomers will do likewise, so' that all parties can be protected. Yours truly, While it is a great hardship upon farmers to lose all bagging in ex cess of six yards that was put on cotton before the mills and export ers announced the new ;*ule, yet the* above letters show that, the buyers at this place are in no way respon sible for it. The fact is, they are as powerless to remedy the matteras are the farmers themselves. . The names of the writers of the above letters have been withheld but, they are in our possession, and any one desi/ing to read the letters can do so. f