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Senator Tillman Refused. That Senator B. R. Tillman re fused to sign a petition for a dis pensary election is very gratifying to those who are putting forth every effort to prevent the re-eftablish -ment. of the dispensary in Edgefield. Club Meeting. The members of the Pleasant Lane Democratic Club are request ed to meet at Pleasant Lane on Sat urday April 27th at 2:30 o'clock for the purpose of re-organizing and electing delegates to the county Con vention. J. P. Hagood, Pres. The Tenderness of Jesus. At the Edgefield Methodist church next Sunday night at 8 o'olock sharp the pastor will preach on above subject. The subject last Sunday morning was "The Severity .of Jesus." There was a splendid .congregation of men and women present. Sunday school next Sunday morn ing at 10. The attendance last Sun day was the largest to date for 1912, ^ J. R. Walker. Base Ball Friday. The Trenton base ball team will meet the nine of the S. C. C. I. on ihe local diamond Friday afternoon next. A large crowd is expected as this will be on the educational ral ly day. The Trenton boys are boast ing of a strong team but the S. C. -C. I. cadets are in excellent form and believe they will come off vic torious in the contest. An admis sion fee of fifteen cents for men and ten cents for ladies will be charged. Had Name Taken From Petition A good citizen and representative farmer who resides west of Edge field voluntarily told the editor Monday that he hastily and thought lessly signed a dispensary petition, but after reflection he decided to have his name erased, and will cast his ballot against the dispensary if -an election is ordered. Those who SIGNED HASTILY AND FOR ?GOOD and sufficient reasons have .changed their minds since affixing their names, should not hesitate to .ask that they be erased. Educational Rally. The people of Edgefield are ex pecting large numbers to attend the educational rally on Friday of this week. Superintendent of Education J. E. Sweariogen, ?of Columbia, will address the people from the platform of the college auditorium and dinner will be served to every body on the college campus. Most interesting exercises will also be held for the young people, contests, etc., both athletic and of a literary nature. Let everybody from every section of our county come and en joy the day. Card From County Chairman. To the Democratic clubs of Edge field County: The Democratic clubs of Edge field county are hereby? called to meet at their respective meeting places on Saturday, April 2 Uh, 1912 for the purpose of electing delegates to the county convention to assemble at Edgefield court house on May 6th, 1912. Each club is entitled to one delegate for every 25 members, and one delegate for a majority fraction thereof. The club presidents are requested to call the meetings for their re spective clubs, and to urge a full attendance by the members. B. E. Nicholson, Ch'm. Co. Ex'tve. Com. Announcement About Quarter ly Conference. The business part of the Edge ?field and Trenton quarterly confer ence will be held in Trenton Metho dist church at 3 o'clock next Sun day. Let every official of Edgefield and Trenton and every member of Trenton church be present at 3 sharp. Sunday school at 2:30. As pastor of Trenton Methodist church I wish to invite everybody to the temperance rally at 4 o'clock next Sunday afternoon. J. R. Walker. Temperance Hally. There will be a temperance rally in the Trenton Methodist church Sunday afternoon April 21st. The exercises will open at 4 o'clock with a sermon by Rev. W. M. Dun can, presiding elder of the Colum bia district, who is an able speaker. This will be followed hy talks by the pastors of the churches of Tren ton. The public is urgently request ed to attend. Trenton W. C. T. U. Candidate for Clerk of Court. Among- the candidates this week will be found the name of Mr. John R. Tompkins who announces him self as a candidate for the office of clerk of court. Although this is the first time that Mr. Tompkins ap pears before the public as an appli cant for office, an introduction at our hands is scarcely necessary, for he has resided all his life practical ly in the center of the county and has come in contact with people from every section. jMr. Tompkins is a sterling citizen who is fully ca pable of filling the office, and if chosen by the people will endeavor to give entire satisfaction. Honor Roll. First grade: Mobley Sheppard, Isabelle Boone, Willie Parks, Ralph Powell. Advanced first: Eleanor Mims, Robert Ouzts, Corrie Cheatham, Isabel Byrd, Helen Nicholson. Second grade: William Folk, Rosa Zimmerman, Geneva Quarles, Ethel Cheatham. Third grade: Ruth Paul, Edith Ouzts, Norma Shannonhouse, Sara Lyon, Raymond Dunovant, Rhea Tiramerman, Sophie Darlington. Fourth grade: Ilene Hading, James Sharpton, Lottie Deal, Mat tie Sue Holson, Emily Bailey, Ellen Quarles, Inez Quarles. Fifth grade: Leila Roper, Mar garet May, Emmie Lou Edmunds, Lydia Brunson, Genevieve Norris, Willie Peak. Sixth grade: Annie O'Hara, Oui da Pattison, Catherine Darlington. Seventh grade: Alma DeLoach, Blondelle Hart, Guy Broadwater, Ida Folk, Florence Mims, Gus Tompkins. Eighth grade: Jennie Simkins, Willie May Hart, Francis Simkins. A Decided Hit. W. Powell Hale, the great im personator will charm every part of his audience at the opera house on Monday evening, from the lea?t to the greatest. Hear what others say of him, and then go and enjoy him for yourself. Last night, at Staub's Theatre, W- P. Hale scored another hit. He was inimitable, and his selections brought down the house from the beginning, the audience being kept in a constant roar of laughter. H's appearance was a decided success. Knoxville (Tenn.) Tribune. * He is graceful, awkward, humor ous, pathetic, tragic and comical, all within less time than it takes to express it.-Judge W. A. Smith, Hendersonvill", N. C. To those wuo wish to spend a pleasant evening, I commend this rising star."-United States Sen ator Robert L. Taylor. Stand by Your Principles, Says Edgefield Citizen. Mr. Editor: Inasmuch ?as the liquor question is the live issue be fore us for the year 1912, and it is being agitated to such an extent that even our preachers feel called upon to express themselves in our secular newspapers with reference to this evil, it seems to me the most vital question for us to ask our selves as Christians, and as uphold ers of moral, civil and religious law, is, on which side of this ques we are? Can we be Christians and be in favor of the liquor traffic? Can we be good citizens and cast our votes for such an evil? Can we be true parents and place this curse in reach of our children? Can we be true patriots and sit still and allow this curse to be legally sold in our midst? Can we answer this in but one way and say a thousand times, No? Let us ponder this question in our hearts as right minded citizens of Edgefield, and let every member of every Christian denomination stand to our ministers and uphold their hands, and be guided by their precepts. If we do this there will never be another dispensary in Edgefield as long as the world stands. A. Citizen Edgefield R. F. D. It Looks Like a Crime to separate a boy from a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve. His boils, pimples, scratches, knocks, sprains and bruises demand it, and its quick relief for burns, scalds or cuts is his right. Keep it handy for boys, also girls. Heals everything healable and does it quick. Unequaled for piles. Only 25 cents at Penn & Holstein, W E Lynch <fcCo. English Hermit's Strange Life. There died the other day, at the af? of eighty-two, a hermit named Lewis, who for the last 20 years has existed on shellfish and lived in hit covered trawler, beached at Lower Fishguard. He never varied his diet ary, except when shellfish wa8 scarce, ?nd then he substituted bread and cheese. To within two days of bis death he was in robust health.-Lon don Answers. An Expression From a Good Citizen of the Eastern'Side of the County. We had hoped that there never would be any effort to re-establish the dispensary in Edgefield county! but our hopes have been blasted. The friends of the dispensary are already busy with their petitions. What are we who opposed it going to do? Are we going to sit with folded hands and do nothing? No. I know the people of old Edgefield county too well to believe that of them. I know that there are a great many of our people who love our country too well to sit down with folded hands and let this curse, (for it is a curse and no one can success fully dispute it) be voted upon us again. It is very evident that there is going to be a very determined effort made to re-establish a dis pensary in Edgefield county and it is also certain that we who oppose it must do so with all the strength and courage we can command. This has been a very cold and wet winter and the roads have been just awful, but we are going to have plenty of men to champion the cause of good roads now. I have heard it already, they say: Give us the dispensary and let the profits go to the building up of our public roads. I too am in favor of good roads. If it takes money to make good roads, and it does, then let us pull the money out of our pockets and have them. Why do you, who favor the dis pensary, wish to pay five or six dol lars for whiskey that probably will injure your health rnd possibly dam your soul in order that yeu may contribute to the building up of our country's roads. Or is the drinking of whiskey such an evil that when you have bought and drunk you try to clear your conscience by saying that you are contributing to a good cause. Ah! my friend, "Be not deceived, for wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoso ever is deceived thereby is not wise." And again the friends of the dis pensary argue "let us have it and the profits thereof go to the schools." Oh my friends! have you become so selfish that when you give a dollar to educate your child, your own flesh and blood, that the dollar must first go down your throat in the form of alcoholic liquor? Away with the idea that we need the profits from the sale of whiskey to help out our schools. Are not oof school houses better equipped now than they were when we had a dis pensary in Edgefield county. Do we not pay our teachers more than.' we did then? And is not tha attend ance better? My friends it takes something besides money to run a school. It takes children too. And when you vote to have a dispensary in our county you provide the mon ey to run a school, but at the same time you vote many a poor child out of school privileges, for no provision has been made to furnish' the drunkard's child with books and clothes. Now you will be met with this kind of an argument. Men have al ways drank, drink now, and will continue to drink whiskey. This is all very true, but Sat the same time any one, though he may be a fool, knows that the more there is and the handier it is the more there will be diunk. If you owned a horse that was made sick on corn every time he ate any would you not feed him on something else, or would you just open the barn door to him and let him eat all he wanted? Now you have neighbors who will get drunk whenever they get whiskey. What are you going to do about it? Are you going .to vote to put whiskey out of their reach as far as you can, or are you going to vote to put it right under under their nose so they may get drunk at any time. I must stop, but I am indeed, in earnest about this matter. It con cerns me and my children and you and your children very much. What are you going to do about it? If you will do thisjthat is if it comes to an election, if you who are mem bers of some church, and therefore professed followers of Christ, will get down on your knees and in sin cerity and in truth ask Him to di rect you in this matter and then vote according to the dictates of your conscience, I shall be satisfied with the results. Geo. W. Scott. On Sunday, the 17th of March, Mr. R. H. Mims, after Berving as clerk for about forty years of the First Baptist church of Edgefield, offered his resignation. He deemed it best to take this step on account of advancing age and failing health. Mr. Orlando Sheppard, who an nounced his resignation, spoke words of appreciation for the years of faithful service. Well may such words be spoken for this clerk and for hundreds of others. This office of the church is one of the most important, and requires more work for which the worker gets neither pay nor praise, than any other office in the kiagdom.-Baptist Courier. Candidates' ards CLERK OF COURT. After meeting with so much en couragement during the past summer, I have fully decided to make the race for the office of Clerk of Court and herewith announce myself a candidate for that office,' and pledge myself to abide by the primary and support the nominees. J. R. Tompkins. STATE SENATE To the Citizens and Qualified Voters of Edgefield county: I will come before you as a candidate for the office of state senator and will abide by the rules and results of the Erimary. If elected, will give you the enefit of the best in my shop. Respectfully, G. D. Mims. SUPERVISOR I hereby announce that I am a can didate for the office of Supervisor of Edgefield county, pledging myself to render faithful service and to abide the result of the primary election. R. J. Moultrie, I hereby announce that I am a can didate for the office of Supervisor of Edgefield county. If chosen by the Seople for this important office I will o my utmost to give entire satisfac tion. I will abide the result of the Democratic primary. W. L. McDaniel. Having been solicited by friends I "announce that I am a candidate for the office of Supervisor for Edgefield coun ty, pledging myself to abide by the re sult of the primary, and to support the nominee of the democratic party. Jno. 0. Herin. I respectfully announce myself a can didate for re-election for Supervisor of Edgefield county, and will serve the people to the best of my ability if elected, pledging myself to support the nominee of the primary election. W. G. Wells. I respectfully announce myself a can didate for the office of Supervisor of Edgefield county and pledge myself to abide the result of the democratic pri mary. A. A. Edmunds. COUNTY COMMISSIONER ' I hereby announce that I am a candi date for the office of county commis sioner, pledging myself if elected to discharge my duties faithfully and abide the result of the primary election. J.' Nick Griffis. I hereby announce that I am a can didate for re-election to the office of county Commissioner, and pledge my self to abide the result of the primary election. N. L. Broadwater. SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRATION I hereby announce that I am a can didate for re-election to the office of Supervisor of Registration, pledging myself to render faithful service and to bound by the result of the Democrat ic primary. N. R. Bartley. .I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for re-election to the office of Supervisor of Registration. I pledge myself to abide the result of the pri mary election and to render faithful service if elected. Geo. W. Quarles. I respectfully announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of Supervisor of Registration, pledging myself to render faithful service and to abide the result of the democratic primary. Sam W. Prince. ANNOUNCEMENT I hereby announce myself a can didate for re-election as a member of the town council of Edgefield from Ward 4, and will abide the result of the election. E. S. Johnson. Yielding to the solicitations of citi zens who reside in my ward, I have de cided to become a candidate for war den from the fifth ward of the town of Edgefield. A. T. Samuel. I respectfully announce that I am a candidate for warden for the town of Edgefield as the representative of the 5th ward. J. U. Rives. A Word to Kodakers I am carrying a nice line of cameras and keep films in stock all the time. Noth ing but right fresh stock offered for sale. Geo. F. Mims Evidently He Was Jealous. A strange plea for divorce was un successfully put forward In the French courts recently by a man who com plained that his wife had allowed her photographs to be used on picture postcards against his will. Economical Housewife. While a Boston man was in Ver mont he went to dinner with a friend who has some political aspirations. As they came in the door he heard the woman of the house say to the hired girl: "1 see Mr. Jones has some body with him to dinner. Take those two big potatoes down to the cellar and bring up three Small ones." = Edgefield = Restaurant Meals served at any hour, from 7 in the morning till io o'clock. Orders for special dishes or fui a la carte meals filled promptly. Ladies who come to town are invited to take din ner or lunch with us. The best of everything to eat. Prompt attention, polite service. Edgefield Restaurant Feed Tennesse Horse & Mule Feed Hie king of all feeds. Keeps your stock up and feed bills down. Sold by the best merchants every where. Manufactured by UNION CITY GRAIN AND FEED CO. Union City, Tennessee Ready for Delivery We have in our warehouse ready for delivery all the popular brands of commercial fertil izers from reliable manufacturers . We can alao supply the farmers with the necessary ingredients for Mixing Their Fertilizers at Home Drop in and get our prices before making your contracts for the year. May & Prescott Talking Machine Free to our customers. This latest type, hornless talk ing machine, given away absolutely free. / Come in and hear the machine play, and let us tell you how to get one ABSOLUTELY FREE J. H. REEL, One mile West of {Edgefield