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??dest Newspaper Snpwith Carolina vni. 77 EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEfiJ?ESDAY, MAY 8,1912 NO, 13 PARKSVILLE LETTER. More Anon Writes of Children ' Day at Modoc. Rey. Earle Freeman Mas Been Called to Parksville. Yesterday was children's day at Modoc, and indeed was it a great occasion. They had been carefully trained by the teacher, Mrs. M. E. Walker, and the exercises went through without a hitch. There were many recitations and dialogues, teaching the missionary lessons in culcated by evangelistic churches the world over, touching upon the evils of the saloon, together with many other thiners that need em phasis by Christian people. There are no brighter boys and girls than are to be found at Modoc, and I k?ow that iheir parents and grand parents ?have abundant reason to feel proud of them. Too much praise could not be given Mrs. Walker for her untiring efforts and success. I wish I had time and you the space to call by name all the young folks, who covered themselves with glory, but I must for the above reasons desist. But I must not forget the dinner, for these good people-I mean the women-are experts in the culinary art. After all had been fed from a table laden with everything eatable from the homely ginger bread to the most delicious pound cake, many baskets of fragments were taken up. The afternoon |being the regular preaching day was occupied by the pastor, Rev. G. W. Bussy, who preached a most practical sermon from the words: "He pitched his tent toward Sodom." Very few peo ple if any said the preacher intended to go to Sodom, but he warned the young people, that if they would keep out of Sodom to watch their environments and go in the oppo site direction. I was about to forget to mention the fact, that in the morning, most helpful talks were made the young people by Bro. T. G. Talbert J. C. Harvely and others The Parksville Baptist church met yesterday in conference, and unanimously called the Rev. Earle Freeman of Plum Branch as pastor for the remainder of the year. Bro. Freeman is a good man, and one of our best preachers and we welcome him with, open arms, having been for some time as "sheep without a Shepherd. Nine of Parksville's prettiest lit tle misses went down to Modoc yes terday to witness children's day ex ercises. To say they were pleased is to put it ?mildly and with one ac cord join old Anon in singing: Hurrah for Modoc. The rain, the rain. Our people have planted very little. It does seem such a pity that we could not have sown a large grain crop, be cause what is sown is very promis ing. The prettiest I have seen I be lieve, is that of Mr. Charlie Stone of Modoc. Mrs. Bessie Marsh of McCormick is visiting with her three children at the home of Mr. J. A. Harvley. Mr. Dudley Hughs of Greenwood spent Sunday with friends in Parks ville. We are glad to announce that the operation upon Mr. R. A. Cochran of Rehoboth, referred to in a former notice, was successful and that he is improving. For the information of non-resi nent members of the matrimonial bureau, I will state that a bevy of courting folks went out Sunday af ternoon for a walk and were over taken by a drenching rain. All were finally rescued, and no harm result ed. We are looking for a big time and many visitors to attend our school closing which takes place about the 10th and among them Mrs. Virginia Sanford now of Springfield and her pretty niece. Col. W. J. Talbert, Prof. A. C. West, and Mr, Butler Blackwell attended the closing exercises of the White Town school, taught by Miss Carrie Talbert, last Friday night. They all, with one accord say, the exercises were fine. Messrs. Claud Parks, Gordon Blackwell, W. R. Parks, Cleveland Stone and Dr. W G. Blackwell all made a flying trip to Augusta in their automobiles one day last week. TbeB. Y. P. ?. held a good meeting last night, the subject be ing "Christian Optimism." A good ly attendance fronT Modoc was no ticeable in the audience. More Anon. Good Women Commended. Our friend Mr. G. W. Hamilton hrs sent in a yery valuable commu nication from his home at Plum Branch, R. F. D. on the dispensary question. As it had been armour cod that no more . articles would be pub lished on that subject, in view of the fact that the question has been settled so favorably, we will not use the whole letter but some extracts of interest. Mr. Hamilton is one of the Con federate veterans whom we hope to see at Edgefield at the re-union. "I am so proud to hear that there are so many of my dear friends in my native county opposed to the dispensary that I wish to enter my solemn protest against this infernal machine, and endorse what the good men and women have said against it, such men as my comrades, W. T. Walton, C. M. William?, who expressed my sentiments, with E? G. Morgan, and the noble Christian women, and preachers of the gos pel. I can not see?what men can be thinking about to favor such a curse, which has caused the anguish to mothers, and broken hearted wives and poverty stricken children that whiskey has. We should remember how much the women have done for our coun try. They encouraged us when dark clouds of war hovered over our land and they still honor our he roes. I think it was Mrs. M. C. Goodlet who originated the U. D. C., and to-day this organization is in every southern state and many of the northern states, and in our own dear county. God ble<?8 the woT men of our own county. May they work for good in the future as they have in the past. I This is the opinion of an old man who shouldered his gun, and marched to do battle for his coun try iu the sixties." "'Sol'' Commends The Advertiser And Gives News Around Clark's Hill When I saw that the dispensary was a failure, a-big thanks to God welled up in my bosom. More is due to your paper than any other human agency. I congratulate you upon its defeat, and there ought to be a day set apart for a general thanksgiving for the victory; what say you brethren of the ministrv? We are late in planting yet we are hopeful of a crop. You hear more peach talk now with us than anything else. Mr. W. S. Middleton has ordered six thousand crates and wants one more. Prof. Nivens of the fruit depart ment of Clemson paid our commu nity a visit. He told the writer that W. S. Middleton had the best kept orchard in the state, which we are proud of. We do not expect big prices on account of the large crop. Mrs. J. P. Nixon and children have returned and we are glad to see them back. Mr. R. H. Middleton has a fine lot of Berkshire hogs, from Ohio, and they are beautiful, and we wiah him success in his new enterprise. May The Advertiser live long and prosper. Sol. Temperance and Mission Meet ing. The temperance and mission meet ing at the Presbyterian church on Sunday afternoon was very well at tended in spite of the April show ers. The progamme as published last week was carried out, and the "use of intoxicants a hindrance to the spread of the gospel in the home land" was discussed by Dr. M. D. Jeffries. Hon. ?. E. Nicholson made a very forceful and thought ful talk on the menace of intoxi cants among heathen or child raoee. Florence Minis gave the selec tion, "PH take what father takes," and Miss Florenoe Peak, in her characteristic, vivacious, style, re cited 4tThe Second Election" which won for her the gold medal at the Johnston Tri-County Convention. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and Rev. E. C. Bailey of the Presbyterian chureh conducted the exercises as arranged on the program. Program Mernot and Confi I * f f * * f v + + _1 .5- - * Gov. J. C. Sheppard,. + Organ prelude, + I * Vocal solo, "Shining in 7 9 t Tonij ? Address, Gen. ft ?fi Collection for S .J* J Chorus by choir, "Silent I IJ Delivering of crosses I* _ f Benediction, Re All baskets are expected joining the Baptist church * Each member of the U. ! her husband or some g? f will be served at i o'cloct A Mr. Garnett's Question An swered. Several weeks ago Mr. J. M. Gar nett of Plum Branch wrote an ar ticle upon cattle ticks which was published in The Advertiser. The editor sent a copy of the paper con taining the article to Dr. E. M. Nighbert of Atlanta, the govern ment Supt. who is in charge of tick eradication work in Georgia and South Carolina, and we publish herewith Dr. Nighbert's letter and what he has written concerning the matter: Editor Advertiser, Edgefiel?VvSot?? Carolina. Dear Sir: Attention has been called to an article appearing in your valuable paper under date of March 27tb, under the heading "Mr. Garnett asks an important question." Considering this of great impor tance to the citizens of your county, I respectfully submit a statement concerning that matter hoping that you may see fit to publish same as prominently located in the paper as the Garnett article. Thanking you, I am, Very respectfully, E. M. Nighbert, Inspector in Charge. Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Hlfhbert's Statement Replying to Mr. Garnett's state ment appearing in the columns of your paper under date of March 27, 1912, cattle raised on farms free of the cattle tick are subject to tick fever only when such animals come in contact with ticks. This has al ways been the case; it is the case now and has been for the last ten or twelve years In the early days of range con ditions in Edgefield County, all calves dropped in the presence of ticks suffered from the disease, but lived owing to the high resistant or tolerating power of the system of the young calf. The same applies to fenced pasturen, provided there are ticks in the pasture. Under fence conditions part of the cattle are raised in the presence of ticks and part of them away from ticks, therefore when trafficing in cattle and changing them from a free pas ture, such cattle are subject to the fever and will sicken and die. The Margaropus Annulatus (cat tle fever tick) is especially a cattle tick. It depends on the blood for its life and propagation; occasional ly it may infest horses and mules, therefore if there are no cattle and no horses or mules in the pasture, fever ticks die from starvation. This has proven to be absolutely true because there are not as many ticks in a fenced up county as there are in open range counties; in other words, when territory becomes part ly fenced the ticks die for want of host. Nature, through the young calf enables the perpetuation of a few cattle of poor quality and of scrub type raised in the presence of ticks. For this reason we have been able to perpetuate a few cattle in the presence of ticks. Tiok fever is caused by a micro organism known as piro-plasma bigeminom, which first finds its resting place in the body of the ederate Re-union ?kins. . f ia/ ?9aj> ! * * * I- * T 4* roaster of ceremonies. * ' "amie N. Tillman. f 's Acre," Mrs. John R. f lilledge Bonham. { 3 * Jhiloh IVionument. J ?j. Holy Memories Cluster." J iy Dr. M. D. Jeffries. j vf J. R. Walker. | ? to be sent to the yard ad- % .j? promptly at II o'clock. J D. C. is expected to invite * mtleman friend. Dinner % + tick, producing disease in cattle, naturally only through the bite of the tick. Cattle raised in the pres ence of ticks from calf hood are therefore able to stand considerable num,ber of ticks on their bodies without apparent injury, but in re ality the animals do suffer. The mi cro-organisms are in the blood,which are ready to develop at any time should any oondition arise that would lower the vitality of the an i maL Bad feeding and other ail ments of cattle favors the develop ment of this specific tick .'fever or gan??o, and.jfor that reason>eattle ar??8^8?y tii-die if they(iy?ve no tick? on them arid are from tick in fected pastures. Cotton seed meal within itself never has nor never will produce tick fever, but if it may be bad oi other feed is bad or bad conditions exist sue-h as poor care of the ani mals, etc., such a condition is a pre-potent factor in the development of the disease. I am surprised that cotton seed meal, one of the most valuable cat-1 tie feeds in the world, is charged with the outrage of killing cattle. Cotton seed meal, unless it is bad is being generally used throughout this Nation and European Nations as a most valuable cattle feed. For that reason South Carolina and the entire south is especially suited for dairying and cattle feeding, because we have the climate for the grow ing crops. We may have the pas tures when the people get in the no tion to establish them, and we have I the highly concentrated food, cot ton seed meal to finish the fattening period in stall, lot or pasture feed-1 ing. The Bureau of Animal Industry is co-operating with the State Vete rinarian of Clemson College and county officials and citizens in com- j pleting the work of tick eradica tation in the . State of South Caro lina. For further information the above authorities or this office would be pleased to hear from any interested citizens. Thanking you, I am, Very respectfully, E. M. Nighbert, Inspector in charge of tick eradica tion work m the states of Geor gia and South Carolina. The Big Store at Ouztsville. Mr. Jesse F. Ouzts, the manager of the Big Store at Ouztsville, con tinues to uso considerable space in our columns for advertising pur poses because he reaps profitable re sults therefrom. Attention is di rected to their new advertisement this week. They make good eve ry statement and stand squarely be hind their merchandise. In fact, as they purchase direct from the factories in large quantities and have but comparatively little ex pense in conducting their business, this popular store is in a position to make close prices in all depart ments. Read what the Big Store has to say this week. $21.00 np Suits made to order of fine woolens, made with snap and style to please yon. F. G. Mertins, Augusta, Gs, JOHNSTON LETTER. Mr. and Mrs. J. Lucas Walker Celebrated Their 15th Wed ding Anniversary With Brilliant Reception. On the evening of the 4th, from 8 to ll o'clock Mr. and Mrs. J. Lucas Walker celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary, and the occa sion was marked with great beauty and brilliancy. As one drew near the home, the effect was most pleas ing; the long verandas were illum ed with Japanese lanterns, and upon entering, the scene was entrancing, and the breath v. spring was upon the air with the quantity of roses the chief flower decoration. In the hallway, where the stately palms and ferns formed a background for the guesls, were Mesdames F. M. Boyd, C. F. Pechman, J. H. White, J. W. Marsh and Peter Eppes, who received all and showed them into the reception room where the re ceiving party stood. The color scheme in here was pink, and roses banked the mantel, and filled tall vases, and soft pink lights were used. With Mr. and Mrs. Walker stood Mrs. M. E. Panish, wife of the minister who officiated at their marriage. Mrs. Walker wore an exquisite costume of white silk marquisette ove'r white satin, and the front of the corsage was covered with seed pearls in pen dants. She held a bouquet of white roses, and appeared a most winsome and gracious young matron. After good wishes had been ex pressed, the guests passed into the dining room where they were re ceived by Misses Maud Nickerson Mollie Waters, Lylie LaGrone and Zena Payne, and were served with an elaborate course, Misses Mary Piokeni?f?wnn, Maye Watson and J&f^s^uj?s :ti P. .Black, J. .A. Do bey. 'E. Ri ??lle^r^A.' Lott and Joseph Wrieht, assisting. The room was a veritable garden of roses the. Madame Cochet being used, to car ry out the color motif of pink. From here all passed up into the living room, where the array of cut glase was displayed. Soft green lights were used, and quantities of General Jacqueminot roses carried out the color idea. A prized gift was from Mrs. M. A. Kniet and Miss Eliza Mims, a cut glass bowl, and was an heir loom 75 years old. Misses Elise Crouch, Marion Mob ley and Pet LaGrone served all with tutti-frutti cream, with black fruit cake and bride's cake. In a corner of the room, Mrs. Mims Walker held the registrar book and pinned on the souvenirs, to the gen tlemen, a dainty heart-shaped card, hand painted, with a bride's like ness and the date of the occasion, and to the ladies, cards, with the likeness of a groom. In a vine-cov ered alcove on the front Miss Lou elle Norris presided over the punch bowl, and this proved a most at tractive place. The bride's cake, a beautiful affair, all covered in pink, upon a table covered with cluny lace over pink, was cut by the young ladies and gentleman, before departure, and several were apprized of their fortune. To Prof. Curry, fell the ring; to Miss Elise Crouch, the thimble; to Mr. Avery Bland, the button; to Mr. Frank Bland, the key, and to Miss Lylei LaGrone the penny. Mr. J. M. Turner went to Macon, Ga., on Monday to attend the re union. Miss Mary Lewis, of Meeting Street, visited relatives here last week. Capt. A. P. West, of Leesville, has been visiting at the home of Mr. J. W. Hardy. On Sunday, at the Bantist church "Mother's Day" will be observed, and everybody is asked to wear a white flower, to honor her, whose memory is so dear, and to pay hom age to the first and greatest love on earth. This day will also be "Cra dle-roll day," and all of the little tots are expected to be present Mrs. Horace Black, of Atlanta, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Mary Hamilton. Messrs. ErnestSatcher, and Billie Barksdale. of Augusta, spent Sun day here at the home of the former's parents. Mrs. J. B. Smith, of Greenwood, and Mr. E. H. Longshore, of New berry, sister and uncle of Mrs. J. L. Walker, spent last week with her and were present at the cele bration of her 15th wedding anni versary. Mrs. B. T. Boatwright and Miss Kate Crouch spent last week at Ola, with Mrs. Hampton Kirkland Miss Bertha Stolm, of Chester, is expected soon to visit Mrs. F. M. Boyd. Mrs. L. B. Asbell and Miss An nie Louise Asbell are visiting friends here. Mrs. Charles Swearingen, of Trenton, and Mrs. E. B. Wiggins, of Florida, have been guests at the home of Mr. W. J. Quattlebaum. Rev. Weir, pastor of the Green wood Christian church, spent a few days of the past week here with friends. On Saturday afternoon, Carl Monroe, the only son of Rev. and Mrs. P. E. Monroe, died, after a short illness. The little fellow suffered from heart failure, and a week previous to his death had a stroke of paralysis. He was a bright and manly boy and on the 11th would have been 9 years of age. He was a pupil at the high school, and always receiv ed words of love and commendation from his teacher, and a touching sight at the open grave, was when the pupils of his grade circled around, and dropped in a white rose to his memory. The services were conducted by Rev. P. D. Ri singer, who was assisted by Dr. W. S. Dorset, and were held in the Lutheran church. Concluding this, the white casket was carried to the Mount of Olives cemetery, where the little form was laid to rest be neath a mound of flowers. Mrs. Hamilton, who spent sever al months here with her daughter, Mrs. W. Allen Mobley returned to her home at Middlebrook, Va., on Monday. Mrs. J. W. Marsh and Mn lie Waters went to Abbevi Monday to represent the ne tury club at the state federate Misses Jennie Walsh and Emm Stausell arrived on Tuesday to visit Miss Ethel Coleman. Come to The Re-union. Every veteran in Edgefield coun ty is expeeted to be in Edgefield on Friday of this week. On our front page will be seen the program of the Memorial Day exercises, which will take place at two o'clock at the Baptist church. Dinner will be served promptly at 1 o'clock ad jacent to Baptist church. Let every veteran be present, and enjoy a good dinner, and a social time, and afterwards hear a splendid ad dress by one of Edgefield's own honored son?, and hear good music. As dinner will be served early, and the exercises at 2 o'clock, there will be no hurry, and all persons wishing to return to their homes will have plenty of tim? to do so. Our people of Edgefield are always glad to have the veterans remain over night, but we have found that most of the old soldiers will return home in spite of our invitations, and sometimes have to leave the exer cises before they are finished, and so we have made this arrangement for a very early Memorirl service for their benefit. Come and enjoy it with us. Junior Music Recital. The recital at the college audi torium on Friday afternoon was one of the beat ever given at the college, and greatly enjoyed by an attentive and appreciative audience. The first quartette was made up of music students in the college taught by Miss Louise Couch; the next a sex - tette of little Edgefield girls under the instruction of Miss Fannie Sheppard. The violin solo following was very tastefully rendered by Miss Myra Morris of Langley; and a most remarkable example of com posure, gifts and faithfulness was exemplified in the piano solo by Roland Snuggs who has only been under the instruction of Miss Couch since February, she being his first piano teacher. He played without notes. Two trios, A May day, and Rondo by Streabbog were given by students under Miss Tisdale. The only solo of any difficulty was rendered by Miss Margaret May who was most vigorously ap plauded for her splendid touch and technique. This number as well as the last quartette were also given by students of Miss Fannie Shep pard.